Add secure Web Search to Claude Desktop with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

What happened

Claude Desktop on Amazon Bedrock provides powerful AI assistance, but without integrated web search, responses are limited to the model’s training knowledge cutoff. Claude Desktop on Amazon Bedrock is limited to the model's knowledge cutoff without web search.

When you need current information, such as recent documentation updates, live pricing, or weather updates, the model can’t retrieve it on its own. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is a platform to build, connect, and optimize agents at scale, with any framework or model.

With AgentCore Gateway , a capability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, you can close this knowledge cutoff gap by connecting Claude Desktop to Web Search . Web Search is a fully managed, Model Context Protocol (MCP)-compatible web search capability backed by an Amazon web index that spans tens of billions of documents.

Key facts

• Claude Desktop on Amazon Bedrock — provides: powerful AI assistance, but without integrated web search, responses are limited to the model’s training knowledge cutoff