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Strands Agents is a simple yet powerful SDK that takes a model-driven approach to building and running AI agents. From simple conversational assistants to complex autonomous workflows, from local development to production deployment, Strands Agents scales with your needs.
# Install Strands Agents
pip install strands-agents strands-agents-tools
from strands import Agent
from strands_tools import calculator
agent = Agent(tools=[calculator])
agent("What is the square root of 1764")
Note: For the default Amazon Bedrock model provider, you'll need AWS credentials configured and model access enabled for Claude 3.7 Sonnet in the us-west-2 region. See the Quickstart Guide for details on configuring other model providers.
Ensure you have Python 3.10+ installed, then:
# Create and activate virtual environment
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate # On Windows use: .venv\Scripts\activate
# Install Strands and tools
pip install strands-agents strands-agents-tools
Easily build tools using Python decorators:
from strands import Agent, tool
@tool
def word_count(text: str) -> int:
"""Count words in text.
This docstring is used by the LLM to understand the tool's purpose.
"""
return len(text.split())
agent = Agent(tools=[word_count])
response = agent("How many words are in this sentence?")
Seamlessly integrate Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers:
from strands import Agent
from strands.tools.mcp import MCPClient
from mcp import stdio_client, StdioServerParameters
aws_docs_client = MCPClient(
lambda: stdio_client(StdioServerParameters(command="uvx", args=["awslabs.aws-documentation-mcp-server@latest"]))
)
with aws_docs_client:
agent = Agent(tools=aws_docs_client.list_tools_sync())
response = agent("Tell me about Amazon Bedrock and how to use it with Python")
Support for various model providers:
from strands import Agent
from strands.models import BedrockModel
from strands.models.ollama import OllamaModel
from strands.models.llamaapi import LlamaAPIModel
# Bedrock
bedrock_model = BedrockModel(
model_id="us.amazon.nova-pro-v1:0",
temperature=0.3,
streaming=True, # Enable/disable streaming
)
agent = Agent(model=bedrock_model)
agent("Tell me about Agentic AI")
# Ollama
ollama_model = OllamaModel(
host="http://localhost:11434",
model_id="llama3"
)
agent = Agent(model=ollama_model)
agent("Tell me about Agentic AI")
# Llama API
llama_model = LlamaAPIModel(
model_id="Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8",
)
agent = Agent(model=llama_model)
response = agent("Tell me about Agentic AI")
Built-in providers:
Custom providers can be implemented using Custom Providers
Strands offers an optional strands-agents-tools package with pre-built tools for quick experimentation:
from strands import Agent
from strands_tools import calculator
agent = Agent(tools=[calculator])
agent("What is the square root of 1764")
It's also available on GitHub via strands-agents/tools.
For detailed guidance & examples, explore our documentation:
We welcome contributions! See our Contributing Guide for details on:
This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.
See CONTRIBUTING for more information.
Strands Agents is currently in public preview. During this period:
FAQs
A model-driven approach to building AI agents in just a few lines of code
We found that strands-agents demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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