AIP-C01 deep review — September 28, 2026

Read the complete guide, 98 skills across 20 tasks, root, service list, credential and March standard-exam announcement. Broad objectives match the accepted baseline; no new exam retirement notice was found. Clarify that March announced standard registration and March 31 was the beta's last day.

Learning improvements

Add an AgentCore responsibility table, Identity/Policy/Guardrails distinctions, session versus durable business limits, reasoning-block filtering boundary and generated SQL/schema validation. Add BDA, connector-based knowledge-base synchronization, geographic/global inference and prompt-cache eligibility. Connect Kiro/Quick names to their roles and distinguish restricted historical service access from exam scope.

Five original worked decisions cover retrieval precision/recall, token budgeting, cost per successful outcome, scoped/cumulative refunds and cohort regression. Sixteen local arithmetic/predicate assertions passed. Preserve 42 original answered checks and eight proposed cloud labs. No live model, AWS account, IAM policy, paid lesson or cloud lab was executed.

Selected reading and unresolved evidence

The September 8 AgentCore CI article supplies architecture and authentication tradeoffs. Adopt its evaluation-gate idea with explicit limitations: stored traces measure the captured run; its M2M path bypasses user-role checks; LLM judging need not be deterministic. Separate current-code evaluation and user authorization tests are still needed. The deployment code was not executed.

LinkedIn confirms 30h16m and March 3 release; Dojo confirms public course counts. Qualify recalled-material marketing and blocked Udemy metadata. Skill Builder's shell did not verify lesson coverage.

The App Runner product page gives April 30, 2026 while the API notice gives March 31. Keep the exact historical date blocked; both exclude new customers. The June availability announcement also restricts multiple scope-listed AI services/features from July 30, without retiring AIP-C01.

Human review remains pending. The operational receipt records objective hashes, mappings, evidence and validation. Accepted snapshots remain unchanged.