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The Strands Agents SDK empowers developers to quickly build, manage, evaluate and deploy AI-powered agents. These quick start guides get you set up and running a simple agent in less than 20 minutes.
Python Quickstart Create your first Python Strands agent with full feature access!
TypeScript Quickstart Create your first TypeScript Strands agent!
Language support
Section titled “Language support”Strands Agents SDK is available in both Python and TypeScript.
Feature availability
Section titled “Feature availability”The table below compares feature availability between the Python and TypeScript SDKs.
| Category | Feature | Python | TypeScript |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core | Agent creation and invocation | ✅ | ✅ |
| Streaming responses | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Structured output | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Model providers | Amazon Bedrock | ✅ | ✅ |
| OpenAI | ✅ | ✅ | |
| OpenAI Responses API | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Anthropic | ✅ | ✅ | |
| ✅ | ✅ | ||
| Ollama | ✅ | ❌ | |
| LiteLLM | ✅ | ❌ | |
| Custom providers | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Additional providers | 5+ | 1+ | |
| Tools | Custom function tools | ✅ | ✅ |
| MCP (Model Context Protocol) | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Built-in tools | 30+ via community package | 4 built-in | |
| Conversation | Null manager | ✅ | ✅ |
| Sliding window manager | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Summarizing manager | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Hooks | Lifecycle hooks | ✅ | ✅ |
| Custom hook providers | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Multi-agent | Swarms | ✅ | ✅ |
| Graphs | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Workflows | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Agents as tools | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Agent-to-Agent (A2A) | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Session management | File, S3, repository managers | ✅ | ✅ |
| Observability | OpenTelemetry integration | ✅ | ✅ |
| Steering | Agent steering | ✅ | ✅ |
| Experimental | Bidirectional streaming | ✅ | ❌ |