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Assemble the hold reason, aging, and promise-to-pay. Finance releases the order. The agent does not. The account-manager list still caps at 5 priorities — a hold is one of those 5, not a button.
Tell the shopper whether the order is in the return window and offer an exchange first. Do not buy the label and do not call createRefund. Where-is-my-order is about 18% of tickets; this is the next slice, not a second cashier.
DuckLake spec 1 shipped on 13 April 2026 and keeps lake metadata in a SQL database. DuckDB's architecture note puts Iceberg planning at about 100 ms per sequential S3 GET, roughly half a second before a query starts. On AWS, stay on S3 Tables when Athena, Glue, or Redshift must read the table.
Count sessions, handoffs, writes denied, and one wrong answer. At 50,000 sessions the published AgentCore silhouette is about $791 a month — a bill to plan, not money saved. We are not publishing a containment rate.
Run ten real lookups and three must-escalate cases before anyone outside the team sees the agent. Under 16 out of 30 on readiness, do not add a write. We are not publishing a pass rate from a client store.
Quote the customer's contract price, or say you cannot. A $5,000 auto-issue figure in the field guide is a placeholder, not your cap. A person still sends the quote. The public catalog is not the contract.
Ask for a risk brief, not a purchase order. A sample SKU at 5 days of cover is a fixture, not a client result. A buyer still sends the PO. Auto-send is an unattended purchaser.
TypeSafe priced Jev at $0.042/MTok with claimed 70–500 ms decisions on 15 Sep 2026. On AWS it is a System-1 sidecar, not a Bedrock replacement — reuse the Gateway ~180→95 ms canary and the ~$791/mo AgentCore silhouette as platform context, not as a Jev outcome.
On Sep 18, 2026 AgentCore microVM Runtime V2 went GA — AWS P75 cold starts 1.9–2.0s vs 5.4–30s on V1, but consumption rates rose to $0.1276/vCPU-hour and $0.0169/GB-hour. Memory reclaim waits 120 seconds.
On 9 Sep 2026 AWS raised LMI async and ESM timeout from 15 to 90 minutes (5,400 s). A 90-minute SQS consumer needs at least 9 hours of visibility. Sync and classic on-demand Lambda stay at 15 minutes.
A chatbot searches help articles. An agent uses tools and can be stopped. Relabeling search as an agent is how Browser-hot pilots hit ~3× Runtime-shaped spend.
Take the lookup work off the queue. Where-is-my-order is about 18% of tickets. Refunds stay with a person. We are not publishing a tickets-down percentage.