Introducing Strands Agents, an Open Source AI Agents SDK — Suman Debnath, AWS
Jun 27, 2025 · 14:26
Suman Debnath, a Principal ML Advocate at AWS, introduces Strands Agents, an open-source SDK that simplifies AI agent creation by requiring only a model and tools, eliminating scaffolding. He demonstrates building an agent in a few lines of code to read, summarize, and speak a file, using default tools. Another demo integrates Strands with an MCP server to generate animated math videos via Manim, requiring no system prompts—the model reasons autonomously. Custom tools can be created by decorating functions. Strands supports any model via LiteLLM or Bedrock, and is available at strandsagent.com with a GitHub repository for contributions.