AWS details Strands Evals for measuring agent skill selection on Bedrock AgentCore
AWS published guidance on evaluating skill-equipped agents using Strands Evals and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations. The post notes that skills encode domain-specific procedures as reusable instructions, but fluent answers do not prove an agent selected the correct skill or followed it, so the tools measure skill selection and instruction following.
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