Strands Agents
Strands Agents is a framework maintained by Amazon Web Services (AWS)756. Its source code is public1 under the Apache License 2.02.
Strands Agents is an open-source SDK from AWS for building and running AI agents in Python and TypeScript. It runs a model-driven agent loop in the developer's own process, with tools, MCP support, multi-agent patterns, memory and sessions, and tracing. Its repository also holds Strands harness, a preassembled agent, along with a CLI and the documentation site.17
- Website: Website and documentation (external site: strandsagents.com)
- Repository: Repository (external site: github.com)
- Documentation: Python quickstart (external site: strandsagents.com)
- License: LICENSE (external site: github.com)
- Release notes: Reviewed release (Python SDK) (external site: github.com)
Availability and license
Overall availability
Source code and documentation are public. With the default Amazon Bedrock provider, the Python quickstart requires AWS credentials and model access enabled in the Bedrock console; other providers need their own credentials.111
Availability is separate from permission: read the license before using or redistributing.
The repository's license file is LICENSE.APACHE (Apache 2.0); the Python and TypeScript SDK directories each carry an Apache 2.0 LICENSE file, and the NOTICE file assigns copyright to Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. The license covers the SDK code, not Amazon Bedrock or other model services.2345
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Public materials checklist
| Item | Status | Notes and evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Source codeIs the source code publicly readable? | Public | Public monorepo containing the Python and TypeScript SDKs, Strands harness, the CLI, and the documentation site; client code only.1 |
| DocumentationIs user documentation published? | Public | Public official documentation at strandsagents.com.8911 |
| InstallationAre installation instructions or packages publicly available? | Public | Python: pip install strands-agents (with strands-agents-tools for prebuilt tools); TypeScript: npm install @strands-agents/sdk. The harness packages are strands-harness and @strands-agents/harness.111 |
| Supported platformsAre supported operating systems or hardware documented? | Public | The README lists Python 3.10 or newer for the Python SDK and Node.js 22 or newer for the TypeScript SDK; some model providers are documented for only one language.19 |
| Release statusAre versioned releases published? | Public | Reviewed Python SDK release python/v1.57.2, marked Latest and published October 1, 2026. Releases are tagged per package (for example python/, typescript/, harness-*, and mcp/). This entry describes the project rather than one release.12 |
What it is useful for
Writing agents that run without a hosted control plane and can be deployed on different infrastructure. Strands is open-source client code that calls a model provider: Amazon Bedrock by default, other hosted providers, or local runtimes such as Ollama and llama.cpp. The SDK does not include model weights, and hosted models keep their own terms and availability.1911
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Organization context
In the news
AWS releases Strands Decider 2B, an open-source decision model, under Apache 2.0
On October 1, 2026 the Strands team at AWS announced Strands Decider 2B, a 2-billion-parameter "decision model" that picks between supplied options or assigns a score with a confidence value instead of generating text. The announcement says the model starts from the Qwen3.5-2B model with its language-model head replaced by a small pointer head and the base fine-tuned with a LoRA adapter, and that it is meant for agent workflows such as those built with the Strands Harness SDK. The code, training data, and scripts are published on GitHub and the weights on Hugging Face; the repository and model card both list the Apache 2.0 license. AWS describes it as a Strands Labs project and says it is unsuited to text-generation tasks such as coding, chat, or summarization.
Strands Agents releases Strands harness, an Apache 2.0 general-purpose agent harness
On September 21, 2026 the Strands Agents project released Strands harness, which it describes as a fully assembled agent harness that can run locally or be deployed to a chosen provider, built as a general-purpose agent rather than a coding agent. It is available under the Apache 2.0 license, is built on the Strands Harness SDK, and can be used from Python or TypeScript. The post says its default context management truncates tool results over about 1,500 tokens and compacts the context when the context window is more than 85 percent full, and that it runs on models from Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google as well as local Ollama models. USASI has not tested Strands harness.
U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S.-governed project
AWS announced Strands Agents on its Open Source Blog in May 2025 as an open-source SDK it released. The repository's NOTICE file assigns copyright to Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, and its contributing guide adopts the Amazon Open Source Code of Conduct and directs security reports to AWS. The repository is hosted in a separate strands-agents GitHub organization; no foundation or multi-organization governance body is documented. The AWS Customer Agreement gives Amazon Web Services, Inc. an address at 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, Washington. See the amazon organization record.756113
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