We’re introducing Strands Labs, a new Strands GitHub organization designed to give developers the ability to get hands-on with experimental, state-of-the-art approaches to agentic AI development. The Strands Agents SDK – available for both Python and TypeScript – has gained incredible traction in the developer community since we released it as open source in May of 2025. The SDK has been downloaded 14 million + times, and the AWS team has been hard at work adding new functionality, including experiments like Steering, to support a very active developer community. Strands’ model-driven approach has proven itself as simple, powerful and scalable for everything from prototyping to enterprise production workloads. Learn more about Strands and the model-driven approach here.
We’ve chosen to make Strands Labs a separate GitHub organization to encourage innovation through experimentation, and to push the frontier of agentic development. We’ve also opened Strands…
