Engineering & research profile

Clare Liguori

Amazon Web Services (AWS) · 2026

Clare Liguori is a senior principal engineer at Amazon Web Services working on agentic developer tools. Her work includes Kiro and the Strands Agents SDK, and she joined the Model Context Protocol core maintainer group in April 2026.

She studies how engineering teams change when agents take on more implementation work. Her approach emphasizes useful repository context, codebase readiness, clear intent, autonomous validation and fast testing feedback. She also calls attention to the review demands and decision bottlenecks that remain when generating code becomes easier.

1 conference talk

AI Engineer World's Fair 202620:57

From AI-Assisted to AI-Native: Building a Frontier Development Team — Clare Liguori, AWS

Clare Liguori describes Amazon teams adopting agent-driven development and argues that substantial gains require deliberate changes to engineering practices. She presents five habits: maintain useful agent context, invest in codebase readiness, enable autonomous validation, clarify intent before implementation, and provide fast testing feedback. She also…

Clare Liguori

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