Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When defining McpClient for agentcoregateway we can define an allowlist , but using the semantic search using Agentcore Search Tool breaks the alowlist functionality and can introduce extra level of halucination and difficulties during agent loop and tool selection.
Describe the solution you'd like
The Plugin can apply the allowlist after semantic search call , this way , even agentcore gateway retourns Many tools form an OpenApi Spec ( etc..) this allow list validation will only return the tools that are present in allow list.
Describe alternatives you've considered
In every project we create a custom plugin to apply the solution. while this works but create a lot of repeated code for all strands agent SDK users
Additional context
A example of plugin used
import logging
from bedrock_agentcore.gateway.integrations.strands.plugins import AgentCoreToolSearchPlugin
from strands.hooks import BeforeInvocationEvent
from strands.plugins import Plugin, hook
from strands.tools.mcp import MCPClient
from .intent import _UNIFIED_INTENT_PROVIDER, UnifiedIntentProvider
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
class McpClientSearchPlugin(AgentCoreToolSearchPlugin):
"""Tool-search plugin scoped to one gateway's MCP client, driven by ``ParallelToolSearchPlugin``."""
def __init__(
self,
mcp_client: MCPClient,
*,
name: str,
domain: str,
allowed_tool_names: frozenset[str] = frozenset(),
):
"""
Args:
mcp_client: MCP client connected to this gateway.
name: Plugin name for each gateway.
domain: ``UnifiedIntentDecision`` field name this gateway's intent comes from.
allowed_tool_names: Drops search results not in this set; empty (default) means no restriction.
"""
self.name = name
self.domain = domain
super().__init__(mcp_client)
self._allowed_tool_names = allowed_tool_names
def search_and_filter_tools(self, intent: str) -> list:
"""Search the gateway for given intent. And filter allowed tools """
if not intent:
logger.info("%s loaded 0 tool(s): intent empty or out of scope", self.name)
return []
try:
result = self._mcp_client.call_tool_sync(
tool_use_id="intent-search",
name="x_amz_bedrock_agentcore_search",
arguments={"query": intent},
)
agent_tools = self._build_tools_from_search_result(result)
except Exception as e:
logger.error("AgentCore Gateway search failed: %s", e)
return []
if not self._allowed_tool_names:
return agent_tools
allowed, dropped = [], []
for agent_tool in agent_tools:
(allowed if agent_tool.tool_name in self._allowed_tool_names else dropped).append(agent_tool)
if dropped:
logger.warning(
"%s: dropping non-allowlisted tool(s) surfaced by search: %s",
self.name,
sorted(t.tool_name for t in dropped),
)
return allowed
def apply_tools(self, event: BeforeInvocationEvent, agent_tools: list) -> None:
"""Swap the tools this plugin registered in a previous invocation of this session for ``agent_tools``."""
for name in list(self._loaded_tool_names):
event.agent.tool_registry.registry.pop(name, None)
self._loaded_tool_names.clear()
for agent_tool in agent_tools:
event.agent.tool_registry.register_tool(agent_tool)
self._loaded_tool_names.add(agent_tool.tool_name)
logger.info(
"%s loaded %d tool(s): %s",
self.name,
len(self._loaded_tool_names),
sorted(self._loaded_tool_names),
)
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When defining McpClient for agentcoregateway we can define an allowlist , but using the semantic search using Agentcore Search Tool breaks the alowlist functionality and can introduce extra level of halucination and difficulties during agent loop and tool selection.
Describe the solution you'd like
The Plugin can apply the allowlist after semantic search call , this way , even agentcore gateway retourns Many tools form an OpenApi Spec ( etc..) this allow list validation will only return the tools that are present in allow list.
Describe alternatives you've considered
In every project we create a custom plugin to apply the solution. while this works but create a lot of repeated code for all strands agent SDK users
Additional context
A example of plugin used