Amazon Web Services (AWS) is lifting the lid on a new open source, general-purpose AI agent, designed to give developers a ready-made foundation they can run locally or deploy to the cloud. Strands Harness, as it’s called, builds on Strands Agents , which AWS debuted in May 2025 as an open source Python SDK for building AI agents. Strands takes what AWS calls a “model-driven approach”: developers provide the model, tools and instructions, while the model determines how to tackle the task and when to call those tools. AWS later brought Strands to TypeScript , and in February created Strands...

Source: The New Stack