Strands Agents
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Amazon Web Services, Inc. · strandsagents.com · who's behind it
Strands Agents is AWS's open-source agent SDK for Python and TypeScript. A model-driven loop runs tools, MCP servers, multi-agent patterns, sessions, interrupts for human approval and OpenTelemetry tracing, with Amazon Bedrock as the default model provider.
Best for Python or TypeScript teams, especially on AWS, who want a model-driven loop with MCP, multi-agent patterns and approval gates.
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Assessment. An Apache-2.0 agent SDK for Python and TypeScript with a managed MCP client, multi-agent patterns, interrupts and Cedar policies for approval, opt-in OpenTelemetry and no usage analytics. Bedrock is the default model, the default sandbox is the local host, and three session-isolation advisories were fixed in October 2026.
Facts
Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
- Auth
- None
- Pricing
- Free · Free · OSS
- x402
- No
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
- Packages
pypistrands-agentsnpm@strands-agents/sdkpypistrands-agents-tools- llms.txt
- published
- Last release
- GitHub stars
- 9.1k
- npm / week
- 698k
- PyPI / week
- 8.9M
From our research 10 facts checked against the vendor's pages
- Surface listed
- The Strands Agents SDK for Python and TypeScript, read from the strands-agents/harness-sdk repository (docs source, workflows, SECURITY.md, tags), strandsagents.com/llms.txt, OSV and the npm registry on 6 November 2026. Nothing was installed
- Scope
- The SDK. Strands Decider 2B, a decision model from Strands Labs, has its own Anchor Terminal listing. The repository also holds the Strands harness, a ready-made agent built on the SDK, a CLI and an MCP server for the docs
- Languages
- Python 3.10 or newer, and TypeScript on Node 22 or newer
- Models
- Amazon Bedrock by default, plus Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Ollama and other providers through the same agent code
- MCP client
- MCPClient over stdio, Streamable HTTP and SSE, passed straight to
Agent(tools=[...])with its lifecycle managed - Multi-agent
- Agents as tools, swarms, graphs, workflows and A2A
- Human approval
- Interrupts from hooks or tools pause a run for a response; the harness gates tool calls with ask or smart presets, natural-language rules or Cedar policies
- Sandbox
- File and shell tools route through a sandbox seam that defaults to the local host, with Docker and SSH sandboxes as options
- Telemetry
- None found by default. OpenTelemetry traces, metrics and logs once configured
- Versioning
- Semantic versioning with experimental APIs under strands.experimental, deprecation warnings and removal at the next major
Facts verified 6 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown
Strengths
- No usage analytics found, with OpenTelemetry tracing opt-in
- Interrupts and interventions pause tool calls for human approval or a Cedar policy
- MCP servers passed straight to the agent, with lifecycle handled
- Python and TypeScript SDKs released weekly, 1.0 since July 2025, under a written versioning policy
- llms.txt with a Markdown twin of every docs page
Weaknesses
- Three advisories in October 2026 on A2A session sharing and world-readable default session files, fixed in 1.43.0 and 1.48.0
- The default sandbox for shell and file tools is the local host
- Bedrock is the default provider, so a bare agent needs AWS credentials and model access
- Experimental modules and fast-moving standards (MCP, A2A, OTel conventions) sit outside the semantic versioning guarantee
Before you call it notes for agents
- Upgrade to strands-agents 1.48.0 or later, and set a private session directory rather than the /tmp default
- Pass a model explicitly when AWS credentials aren't configured, since Bedrock is the default
- Use interrupts or the harness's
interventionsfor tools that write, send or pay - Run shell and file tools in the Docker or SSH sandbox when the agent runs untrusted code
- Pin a minor version when using A2A, MCP or experimental modules
Who's behind it provenance 58/100
- Legal entity namedAmazon Web Services, Inc.20/20
- Domain agestrandsagents.com, no registry record we could read0/15
- Endpoint on the vendor's domainno hosted endpointn/a
- Terms of servicenothing hosted, so the Apache-2.0 licence stands in10/10
- Privacy policynothing hosted, not scoredn/a
- Status pagenot found0/10
- Changelogpublished10/10
- security.txtnot found0/10
- People named4 named with their role, none with a public profile7/10
- Support routehelp pages, a community5/5
Terms and privacy, as read
Terms of service none to read
TL;DR Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there are no terms of service to read. The Apache-2.0 licence stands in and the check scores in full.
Privacy policy none to read
TL;DR Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there is no privacy policy to read and the check isn't scored.
A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.
The licence file and NOTICE attribute the project to Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates; SECURITY.md sends reports to the AWS Vulnerability Disclosure Program on HackerOne.
strandsagents.com/robots.txt allows all crawlers with Content-Signal ai-train=no, search=yes, ai-input=yes.
strandsagents.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.
Checked 2026-11-06 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.
Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help
Key people
- Jeff BezosFounder and executive chairman, Amazon
- Andy JassyPresident and CEO, Amazon
- Matt GarmanCEO, Amazon Web Services
- Werner VogelsCTO, Amazon
Ownership Part of Amazon.com, Inc.
Researched 6 November 2026 from public pages. AWS is a subsidiary of Amazon; Amazon's founder is shown as founder. Matt Garman (AWS CEO) and Andy Jassy (Amazon CEO) are named in their roles on aboutamazon.com articles from 2026; Jeff Bezos's and Werner Vogels's roles come from their Wikipedia articles, read 28 October 2026. Product people named on single listings are left as they are. Copied from the Strands Decider 2B listing (checked 28 October 2026) for the Strands Agents SDK on 6 November 2026; the company facts are AWS's, and no SDK maintainer was added. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.
Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-07 16:00 UTC
- github
strands-agents/harness-sdktypescript/v1.24.0, released 2026-11-04 - npm
@strands-agents/sdk1.24.0 - pypi
strands-agents1.64.0, released 2026-11-04 - pypi
strands-agents-tools0.9.0, released 2026-11-04 - GitHub stars 9.1k
- npm downloads a week 698k
- PyPI downloads a week 8.9M
- security.txt none · 1 hour ago
- llms.txt answers · 2 hours ago
Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/strands-agents.json
Notable
- Python strands-agents 1.64.0 and TypeScript @strands-agents/sdk 1.24.0 tagged on 4 November 2026 in the strands-agents/harness-sdk monorepo, which now holds both SDKs, the Strands harness, a CLI and an MCP server; the TypeScript repository was archived on 2 June 2026 source
- v0.1.0 tagged on 16 May 2025 and v1.0.0 on 15 July 2025 source
- Three advisories in October 2026, all fixed. The A2A server shared conversation history across callers (GHSA-4v6f-7vjh-6x4m, high, fixed in Python 1.43.0 and TypeScript 1.5.0), and the default FileSessionManager in /tmp was world-readable and followed symlinks (GHSA-763v-5pjm-fx36 and GHSA-3w55-933p-8pv5, fixed in 1.48.0) source
- OpenTelemetry tracing is opt-in through the
otelextra and StrandsTelemetry; no usage analytics were found in the Python or TypeScript source source - MAL-2026-904 flags strands-agents-anthropic on PyPI as a probable pentest package that sends basic host data; it isn't published by the Strands project source
Reviews by the Anchor panel
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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run
Assessed on 6 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.
| Category | Weight this run | Score | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliabilitychecked 6 November 2026 | 16%20 | 17.4 | |
| Local-package reading. Official PyPI and npm packages with Python 3.10 and Node 22 stated (20). A public CI workflow runs lint, type checks, unit and integration tests for each package on pull requests to main, plus security-audit workflows, and the latest Python, TypeScript, harness and MCP runs on main passed on 6 November (25). 664 open issues and 1,151 open issues and pull requests on 6 November, with 545 issues opened in the 90 days to 3 November. Of the 50 newest, 12 had a comment and 15 were closed, and 9 of the 40 newest open items carry a bug label. An issue-responder workflow runs on new issues (12). A written semantic versioning policy, experimental APIs kept apart, and deprecations removed only at a major (15). 1.0 since 15 July 2025 (15). 20+25+12+15+15 = 87. | |||
| Performancenot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Schema & documentationchecked 6 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 15.4 | |
| Framework reading. Typed Python and TypeScript APIs with a reference for each (25). llms.txt with a Markdown twin of every page (10). The llms.txt and docs say when to use Strands over a hand-written loop and when to take the harness rather than the SDK (18). Tools are typed from decorated functions or Zod schemas (15). Python and TypeScript examples on every page, stop reasons and hook events documented, with no catalogue of exceptions (12). Versioning page and tagged releases per package (15). 25+10+18+15+12+15 = 95. | |||
| Agent ergonomicschecked 6 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 14.1 | |
| Framework reading. An MCPClient is passed straight to the agent in a few lines and its lifecycle is managed, with tool filtering per client (22). Conversation managers, turn limits, token budgets and cancellation bound each run (20). Stop reasons and typed events, and hooks that can retry a model or tool call (16). Retry strategies, session managers that persist and resume a conversation, and interrupts that resume where they paused (17). Two official languages, but the default provider is Bedrock, which needs AWS credentials and model access (12). 22+20+16+17+12 = 87. | |||
| Security & authchecked 6 November 2026 | 14%17.5 | 15.6 | |
| Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing). No usage analytics found in either SDK, and OpenTelemetry is opt-in (25). Interrupts and the harness's interventions gate tool calls behind human approval or Cedar policies, but the default sandbox is the local host (16). Guardrails, PII redaction and trusted message history pages, with Bedrock Guardrails integration (13). OpenTelemetry traces for every model and tool call (15). The AWS Vulnerability Disclosure Program on HackerOne and three advisories in October 2026 published with fixed versions (20). 25+16+13+15+20 = 89. | |||
| Payments & pricingchecked 6 November 2026 | 10%12.5 | 7.5 | |
| Self-hosted rule. Free Apache-2.0 packages with nothing to buy from the project (20 + 20 + 20). No payment protocol (0). Model calls are paid to the provider. 0+20+20+20 = 60. | |||
| Task successnot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Maintenance & communitychecked 6 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 7.6 | |
| Python 1.64.0 and TypeScript 1.24.0 tagged on 4 November 2026 (30). Python 1.55.0 on 8 September, 1.61.0 on 14 October, 1.62.0 on 21 October and 1.63.0 on 30 October among many releases in 90 days (20). 664 open issues and 1,151 open issues and pull requests on 6 November, with 545 issues opened in the 90 days to 3 November. Of the 50 newest, 12 had a comment and 15 were closed, and 9 of the 40 newest open items carry a bug label. An issue-responder workflow runs on new issues (12). Both official SDKs are current (15). Dependency floors, security-audit workflows and CI passing on main (10). 30+20+12+15+10 = 87. | |||
| Transparency & trusteditorial 86, provenance 58checked 6 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 6.3 | |
| Apache-2.0 (30). A library that stores session state where the developer configures it. The default FileSessionManager kept sessions world-readable in /tmp until 1.48.0, which the October advisories record and fix (20). A written deprecation policy with warnings and removal at majors, without a dated support window (16). Telemetry is opt-in and documented (20). 30+20+16+20 = 86. | |||
| Negative events | ≤15 |
| -4 |
| Total | 80 · A | ||
Weight is the published weight, and the figure under it is that category's share of the 100 points in this run. A pending category has no score and adds nothing. What changes when it's scored.
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Graded 80 A methodology v0.7
Fix list 14 items, the biggest gain first
Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on Strands Agents. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.
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What we couldn't check
- Reply times were sampled from comment counts on the 50 newest issues, not read issue by issue
- PyPI's project pages answered a bot check, so release dates come from the repository's tags
Sources 11
- repository (docs source, workflows, SECURITY.md, tags) github.com · seen 2026-11-06
- llms.txt strandsagents.com · seen 2026-11-06
- versioning and support policy strandsagents.com · seen 2026-11-06
- MCP tools strandsagents.com · seen 2026-11-06
- traces strandsagents.com · seen 2026-11-06
- harness interventions strandsagents.com · seen 2026-11-06
- GHSA-4v6f-7vjh-6x4m osv.dev · seen 2026-11-06
- GHSA-3w55-933p-8pv5 osv.dev · seen 2026-11-06
- npm @strands-agents/sdk registry.npmjs.org · seen 2026-11-06
- PyPI downloads pypistats.org · seen 2026-11-06
- GitHub API, repository, issues and Actions runs api.github.com · seen 2026-11-06
Probe metrics
Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.
Pricing & changes
Free Free · OSS Free and open source under Apache-2.0. You pay for model calls, on Bedrock by default or with any supported provider.
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Machine-readable
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI SDK Vercel Inc. | AA | 89.8 | agent.framework agent.mcp-client agent.multi-agent agent.durable | no |
| OpenAI Agents SDK OpenAI | AA | 86.2 | agent.framework agent.multi-agent agent.durable agent.mcp-client | no |
| Pydantic AI Pydantic | A | 81.9 | agent.framework agent.multi-agent agent.durable agent.mcp-client | no |
| Microsoft Agent Framework Microsoft | A | 79.4 | agent.framework agent.multi-agent agent.durable agent.mcp-client | no |
| Mastra Kepler Software, Inc. | BB | 74.2 | agent.framework agent.durable agent.mcp-client agent.multi-agent | no |
| Docker Agent Docker | BB | 73.6 | agent.framework agent.multi-agent agent.mcp-client agent.durable | no |
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/tools/strands-agents.md· slim/tools/strands-agents.min.md(or sendAccept: text/markdown) - What the fix list covers
/fixes/strands-agents.md·/fixes/strands-agents.json· the whole listPOST /api/v1/fix-list - From a terminal
anchor tool strands-agents --md(the CLI) · over MCPget_tool {"slug": "strands-agents"}at/mcp, no key - Directory index
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