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Gateway supports IAM outbound auth to MCP server and OpenAPI targets — the gateway signs with SigV4 via its service role. Per Set up outbound authorization for your gateway, these two target types take a GATEWAY_IAM_ROLE credential provider plus an iamCredentialProvider block (service required — bedrock-agentcore for MCP servers on AgentCore Runtime; region optional). Lambda / API Gateway / Smithy take the bare credentialProviderType with no iamCredentialProvider.
TARGET_TYPE_AUTH_CONFIG in src/schema/schemas/mcp.ts doesn't allow it: mcpServer is OAUTH | NONE, openApiSchema is OAUTH | API_KEY. Only passthrough gets GATEWAY_IAM_ROLE. So there's no way to put an IAM-auth MCP server hosted on AgentCore Runtime behind a gateway — it forces an OAuth provider in front of a runtime that already authenticates with SigV4.
It's a schema block, not just a missing flag — hand-editing agentcore.json fails too:
$ agentcore validate
- agentCoreGateways[0].targets[0].outboundAuth:
mcpServer targets do not support GATEWAY_IAM_ROLE outbound auth
Separately, the flag surface reports the wrong reason — the guard exempts only NONE, so GATEWAY_IAM_ROLE and JWT_PASSTHROUGH fall through into the OAuth credential requirement:
$ agentcore add gateway-target --type mcp-server --outbound-auth gateway-iam-role \
--signing-service bedrock-agentcore ...
--credential-name or inline OAuth fields (--oauth-client-id, --oauth-client-secret,
--oauth-discovery-url) required when outbound auth type is gateway-iam-role
Acceptance Criteria
TARGET_TYPE_AUTH_CONFIG allows GATEWAY_IAM_ROLE on mcpServer and openApiSchema, with service required there and rejected for Lambda / API Gateway / Smithy
--signing-service / --signing-region accepted for these types, not just passthrough
flag validator exempts GATEWAY_IAM_ROLE / JWT_PASSTHROUGH from the credential requirement
Activity
notgitika commentedon Oct 30, 2026
The fix has been merged for this issue. This will be released at the next regular release cadence