Insights & Resources

ChatGPT can show your products from a feed. In-chat Instant Checkout is approved partners, not a switch in Shopify admin. ACP checkout is five endpoints. Catalog gaps still get you skipped.

There is no universal price. A July 2026 first-party benchmark put one AgentCore support silhouette near $791 a month at 50,000 sessions, covering platform plus a small model, before integration or a reviewer.

Gemini and AI Mode can attach a Buy button only for select UCP merchants. The US, Canada, and Australia are the documented markets. Your Merchant Center feed is the part you can fix this week.

Adobe Commerce still has no AgentCore connector. Use an integration's OAuth credentials against /rest/V1/, not a 4-hour admin password token. Reads first. Refunds stay with a person.

MCP is a tool pipe. The 2025-11-25 spec requires OAuth 2.1 and Protected Resource Metadata on HTTP. A local stdio server must not pretend that flow applies. Tool descriptions are not a permission boundary.

There is no native Shopify AgentCore connector. Pin Admin GraphQL, start with read scopes, and keep write_orders off. Browser-on support turns have run about 3× the platform spend.

On 23 Sep 2026 AWS added Salesforce and Zendesk connectors. The managed Salesforce crawl is 4 entity flags; the classic preview lists 21 CRM objects. New customer-managed Salesforce connectors stop on 30 Sep 2026.

On September 21, 2026 the Strands Agents team reported 28% lower token cost across six benchmarks, and 77% less than Claude Code with Fable 5 on Terminal-Bench. That figure is not an AgentCore bill.

Managed Knowledge Base Web Crawler, GA with the service on 17 Jun 2026, follows up to 300 URLs per minute from 10 seeds or 3 sitemaps. A 10,000-URL help center is at least 34 minutes at that cap, and the crawler still has no per-page ACL.

On 18 Sep 2026 SNS raised the payload ceiling to 1 MiB, four times 256 KiB, but only after you set MaximumMessageSize. A full 1 MiB Standard publish is 16 requests. At 50 cents per million requests, one million of those publishes cost 8 dollars before the free tier.

AWS Settings spend limits, still a limited release on 23 Sep 2026, alert at 50%, 75%, and 90%, then pause the project. Do nothing for 90 days and AWS deletes the project data. The minimum limit is the greater of $20 or AWS's estimate.

On September 22, 2026 AWS shipped Claude Opus 5.5 with a 1M-token context, thinking always on, and ZDR by default on Bedrock. Anthropic lists $4/$20 per million tokens. This post covers the routing call and what breaks from Opus 5.