Tutorials, architecture deep-dives, and production insights from the Strands Agents team.https://strandsagents.com/en-ushttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/robots-working-together-model-hardware-standard-strands-robots/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/robots-working-together-model-hardware-standard-strands-robots/How Strands Robots lets agents read from and act on many robots and devices at once, across Zenoh, AWS IoT, and the new Model Hardware Standard (MHS), in simulation and the real world.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTPhysical AIRoboticsEdge Computinghttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/figma-to-code-at-scale-building-with-strands-agents/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/figma-to-code-at-scale-building-with-strands-agents/A team at Amazon Ads built a multi-agent system that converts Figma designs into production ad layouts. Here's what their architecture looks like, why they chose Strands, and the lessons they learned shipping it.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMulti-AgentUse CasesContext Managementhttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/introducing-harness-optimizer/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/introducing-harness-optimizer/Harness Optimizer is an open-source library that optimizes the context around your LLM agent (system prompt, tool docs, skills) the way you'd train a model: rollouts in, rewards out, parameters updated.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpen SourceOptimizationStrands Labshttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/reduced-cost-better-isolation-more-resilience/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/reduced-cost-better-isolation-more-resilience/Strands Agents ships context management that cuts costs in half, Strands Shell for sandboxed agent execution, and chaos testing and red teaming in Strands Evals 1.0.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnnouncementContext ManagementEvaluationOpen Sourcehttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/inside-agentic-football-cup/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/inside-agentic-football-cup/How we use Strands Agents and the model-driven approach to run 5v5 autonomous football matches inside a 4-hour developer workshop, with a hard latency contract, structured outputs, and multi-agent coordination.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTUse CasesMulti-AgentModel-DrivenStructured OutputAmazon Bedrockhttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/multimodal-evaluators-mllm-as-a-judge-image-to-text-strands-evals/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/multimodal-evaluators-mllm-as-a-judge-image-to-text-strands-evals/Announcing four new MLLM-as-a-Judge evaluators for image-to-text tasks in Strands Evals: Overall Quality, Correctness, Faithfulness, and Instruction Following — automated, image-grounded scoring with reasoning.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTEvaluationAnnouncementhttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/what-we-learned-from-one-year-of-building-production-agents/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/what-we-learned-from-one-year-of-building-production-agents/Strands Agents turned one year old. Here are the key lessons our engineers learned after open sourcing this framework and hitting 25 million downloads.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpen SourceAnnouncementhttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/strands-agents-typescript-v1/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/strands-agents-typescript-v1/Version 1.0 of the Strands Agents TypeScript SDK is here. Build type-safe AI agents with full model provider support, custom tools, plugins, and multi-agent orchestration in Node.js and the browser.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpen SourceAnnouncementTypeScripthttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/strands-agents-discord-community/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/strands-agents-discord-community/The Strands Agents Discord server is live. A place for builders to get real-time help, share what they've built, and connect with the Strands team.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpen SourceAnnouncementCommunityhttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/toolsimulator-scalable-tool-testing-ai-agents/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/toolsimulator-scalable-tool-testing-ai-agents/ToolSimulator is an LLM-powered framework within Strands Evals that enables safe, scalable agent testing by using simulated tool responses instead of risky live API calls.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTEvaluationSimulationToolshttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/strands-agents-typescript-sdk/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/strands-agents-typescript-sdk/The Strands Agents TypeScript SDK brings the model-driven approach to the TypeScript ecosystem. Build type-safe AI agents that run in Node.js and the browser.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpen SourceAnnouncementTypeScripthttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/simulate-realistic-users-multi-turn-agents-strands-evals/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/simulate-realistic-users-multi-turn-agents-strands-evals/ActorSimulator in the Strands Evals SDK enables teams to test conversational agents through realistic, goal-driven simulated users rather than relying on static test cases or manual testing.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTEvaluationSimulationhttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/evaluating-ai-agents-practical-guide-strands-evals/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/evaluating-ai-agents-practical-guide-strands-evals/Learn how to systematically evaluate AI agents using Strands Evals, covering core concepts like cases, experiments, evaluators, multi-turn simulation capabilities, and practical integration patterns for production deployment.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTEvaluationBest Practiceshttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/steering-accuracy-beats-prompts-workflows/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/steering-accuracy-beats-prompts-workflows/Steering hooks achieved a 100% accuracy pass rate across 600 evaluation runs, compared to 82.5% for simple prompt-based instructions and 80.8% for graph-based workflows.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSteeringEvaluationBest Practiceshttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/strands-agents-with-agent-control/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/strands-agents-with-agent-control/Define what your Strands agents can and can't do at runtime, without changing a line of agent code.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpen Sourcehttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/introducing-strands-labs/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/introducing-strands-labs/Strands Labs is a new GitHub organization designed to give developers the ability to get hands-on with experimental, state-of-the-art approaches to agentic AI development.Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpen SourceAnnouncementhttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/strands-physical-ai/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/strands-physical-ai/Learn how to build physical AI systems that combine edge computing with cloud intelligence using Strands Agents, NVIDIA GR00T, and Hugging Face LeRobot.Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTPhysical AIRoboticsEdge ComputingBest Practiceshttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/introducing-strands-agent-sops/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/introducing-strands-agent-sops/Agent SOPs are a standardized markdown format for defining AI agent workflows in natural language that balances flexibility and control.Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTOpen SourceAgent SOPshttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/strands-agents-model-driven-approach/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/strands-agents-model-driven-approach/Learn how the model-driven approach in Strands Agents SDK lets modern LLMs drive their own behavior, making agents more resilient and adaptable.Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTModel-DrivenArchitectureBest Practiceshttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/strands-agents-1-0/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/strands-agents-1-0/Strands Agents 1.0 brings multi-agent patterns, A2A protocol support, and production-ready features to the open source SDK.Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTReleaseMulti-AgentA2AProductionhttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/interleaved-thinking-claude-4/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/interleaved-thinking-claude-4/Learn how to use Claude 4's interleaved thinking beta feature with Strands Agents for faster, more fluid reasoning and reduced tool calls.Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTAmazon BedrockModel-DrivenTechnical How-tohttps://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/introducing-strands-agents/https://strandsagents.com/pr-cms-4024/blog/introducing-strands-agents/Strands Agents is an open source SDK that takes a model-driven approach to building and running AI agents in just a few lines of code.Fri, 16 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTOpen SourceAnnouncement