AgentCore CLI is AWS’s open-source command line tool for creating, developing, and deploying AI agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Published on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license with about 305 stars and updates in October 2026, it describes itself as the terminal experience for AgentCore.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore lets teams deploy and operate AI agents securely at scale using any framework and model, with purpose-built infrastructure and controls for trustworthy operation. The CLI is how developers get there from the terminal: an interactive terminal UI walks through commands, a create wizard scaffolds a new agent project with minimal configuration, a dev command tests the agent locally, deploy pushes it to AWS, and invoke tests the deployed agent. It installs globally from npm as the @aws/agentcore package and needs Node.js 20 or later, plus uv for Python agents. The README also warns users migrating from the older Python starter toolkit to uninstall it, since both tools claim the same agentcore command name.
The CLI is the successor experience to the earlier Bedrock AgentCore Starter Toolkit, consolidating project creation, local development, deployment, and invocation under one command name. AWS maintains the AgentCore developer guide, and the documentation link used for this listing points to the official getting-started guide for the command line, which walks new users through installation and their first agent.
The CLI itself is free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license. Agents you deploy run on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, which is a paid AWS service billed under your own AWS account.
AgentCore CLI is for developers and platform teams building production agents on AWS who want a fast, scriptable path from a local project to a managed, observable deployment.