agent builder
Basic Information
Strands Agent Builder is an interactive, model-driven toolkit for building, testing, and extending custom AI agents and tools from the terminal. The repository provides a CLI called strands, a Python package installable via pipx, sample commands for creating tools and agents, and integration points for knowledge bases and model providers. It is designed to let developers compose focused agents, hot-reload tools during development, and iterate on agent behavior and toolsets. The project includes documentation, a set of built-in tools, environment variable configuration, and examples for loading and extending tools from persistent knowledge bases. The README explains quick start usage, environment variables, model configuration defaults, and instructions for plugging in custom model providers under a local .models directory. The repo is intended for interactive agent development rather than a single monolithic application.