Strands Agents (AWS)
AWS-released open-source agent SDK, announced 2025-05-16; model-driven approach in which the model plans next steps and tool use. AWS teams including Amazon Q Developer, AWS Glue and VPC Reachability Analyzer use it in production.
Active · Verified 2026-10-28 · fresh as of 2026-10-28 · 19 cited facts, 2 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- AWS open agent framework vendor fix
- Tier
- T3
- Latest release
- v1.62.0 (2026-10-21) — Python; TypeScript @strands-agents/sdk v1.22.0 (2026-10-21) registry fix
- License
- Apache-2.0 vendor fix
- Pricing
- searched not found fix
- Funding
- searched not found fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- open-source vendor fix
- SDK languages
- python, typescript repo fix
- Protocols
- a2a, mcp-client, opentelemetry vendor fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 47.61 (12-mo avg 25.38) · 206 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
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Pros & cons
Pros
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Cons
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Claims & capabilities
AWS-developed OSS agent framework launched 2025; Apache-2.0; integrates with AWS Bedrock; used internally before OSS release.
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Deployment
- Self-hosted only — library
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- yes — MCPClient exposes MCP server tools to agents (Python and TypeScript)
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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Sources (18 cited facts, 2 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is AWS open agent framework vendor
- What it does & what's distinct AWS-released open-source agent SDK, announced 2025-05-16; model-driven approach in which… third-party
- Claims / benefits AWS-developed OSS agent framework launched 2025; Apache-2.0; integrates with AWS Bedrock… vendor
- Created 2025 vendor
- Latest release v1.62.0 (2026-10-21) — Python; TypeScript @strands-agents/sdk v1.22.0 (2026-10-21) registry
- License Apache-2.0 vendor
- GitHub strands-agents/harness-sdk (formerly sdk-python) — ~9k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo
- Deployment Self-hosted only — library repo
- MCP support yes — MCPClient exposes MCP server tools to agents (Python and TypeScript) vendor
- Runtimes Python, TypeScript repo
- architecture-deployment-locus local vendor
- licensing-bucket open-source vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":620.23,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":25.38,"openrank_current":47.61,"par… third-party
- sdk-languages python,typescript repo
- protocol-support a2a,mcp-client,opentelemetry vendor
- maturity ga registry
What changed
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- 2026-10-27
- Latest release first recorded as “v1.62.0 (2026-10-21) — Python; TypeScript @strands-agents/sdk v1.22.0 (2026-10-21)” source
- Deployment first recorded as “Self-hosted only — library” source
- MCP support first recorded as “yes — MCPClient exposes MCP server tools to agents (Python and TypeScript)” source
Related systems
References (21)
- Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) integrates with — Strands Agents vended tools include an A2A Client tool for remote A2A-protocol agents. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Amazon Nova family integrates with — Strands Agents docs have an Amazon Nova model provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Anthropic Claude (foundation models) integrates with — Strands Agents docs have an Anthropic model provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- AWS Bedrock AgentCore Memory integrates with — Strands Agents docs have an AgentCore Memory session manager integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- AWS SageMaker integrates with — Strands Agents docs have an Amazon SageMaker model provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Bedrock AgentCore (AWS) integrates with — Strands Agents docs have a guide for deploying Strands agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cohere Command R+ / Command A integrates with — Strands Agents docs have a community Cohere model provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Comet ML integrates with — Strands Agents traces docs list Opik (Comet) as a visualization option for its OpenTelemetry traces. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Fireworks AI integrates with — Strands Agents docs have a community Fireworks AI model provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Google Gemini 3 family integrates with — Strands Agents docs have a Google (Gemini) model provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langfuse integrates with — Strands Agents traces docs list Langfuse as a visualization option for its OpenTelemetry traces. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LiteLLM integrates with — Strands Agents docs have a LiteLLM model provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Meta Llama 4 family integrates with — Strands Agents docs have a Llama API model provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family integrates with — Strands Agents docs have a Mistral model provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP spec) integrates with — Strands Agents docs cover connecting agents to MCP tools. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) integrates with — Strands Agents docs have an OpenAI model provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenRouter integrates with — Strands Agents docs have a community OpenRouter model provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- SGLang integrates with — Strands Agents docs have a community SGLang model provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Vercel AI SDK integrates with — Strands Agents docs have a Vercel model provider page (VercelModel adapter wraps AI SDK LanguageModelV3 providers). (verified 2026-10-29)
- vLLM integrates with — Strands Agents docs have a community vLLM model provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- xAI Grok 4 integrates with — Strands Agents docs have a community xAI model provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Referenced by (20)
- Arize Phoenix integrates with — Arize Phoenix docs have a Strands Agents (AWS) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Bedrock AgentCore (AWS) integrates with — integrates with Strands Agents, Mem0 as memory provider.
- Braintrust integrates with — Braintrust docs have a Strands Agents (AWS) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Comet ML integrates with — Comet's Opik docs have a Strands Agents (AWS) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Datadog Agent Observability (LLM Observability) integrates with — Datadog LLM Observability auto-instrumentation page lists a Strands Agents LLM integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Fireworks AI integrates with — Fireworks AI docs integration: Strands Agents. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Galileo integrates with — Galileo's third-party integrations docs list Strands Agents (AWS) as a supported integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- HoneyHive integrates with — HoneyHive integrations docs have a AWS Strands Agents tracing/integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langfuse integrates with — Langfuse's integrations directory has a Strands Agents (AWS) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangSmith integrates with — LangSmith docs have a tracing integration page for Strands Agents (AWS). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mem0 integrates with — Mem0 docs have a Strands Agents integration page (Add persistent long-term memory to AWS Strands agents with Mem0, as a native MemoryStore that plugs into the agent loop). (verified 2026-10-29)
- MongoDB Atlas Vector Search integrates with — MongoDB's Atlas AI Integrations page lists Strands Agents (AWS) as an integration (some entries are marked community-maintained). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Neo4j integrates with — Neo4j's GenAI ecosystem docs have a Strands Agents (AWS) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenInference integrates with — The OpenInference repo README lists an OpenInference instrumentation package for Strands Agents (AWS). (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenLLMetry (Traceloop) integrates with — OpenLLMetry's What's Supported page lists Strands Agents (AWS) as instrumented out of the box. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Portkey AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a Strands Agents agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pydantic Logfire integrates with — Pydantic Logfire integrations docs have a Strands Agents page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Temporal integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists Strands Agents integration (Python, TypeScript). (verified 2026-10-29)
- TrueFoundry AI Gateway integrates with — TrueFoundry AI Gateway ecosystem lists a Strands Agents integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Zep & Graphiti integrates with — Zep docs have a Strands Agents integration page for adding Zep long-term memory. (verified 2026-10-29)