Strands Agents
Strands Agents is an open-source, model-first SDK initially released by AWS for building tool-using and multi-agent AI applications.
AI Practitioner focus
- The foundation model drives the agent loop: reason, select a tool, observe the result, and continue toward the goal.
- Supports tools, memory, multimodal inputs, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and multi-agent patterns such as supervisor/workflow/graph/swarm designs.
- Can use Amazon Bedrock models such as Amazon Nova and can integrate with AWS Lambda, Step Functions, or third-party components.
- Strands vs Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Strands is a development framework/SDK; AgentCore supplies managed production runtime, memory, identity, gateway, policy, observability, and related services. They can be used together.
- Strands vs Kiro: Strands is for developers composing agents in code; Kiro is an agentic development environment used to build software.