Strands Harness
But the moment you build your own agent, you’re on your own. It’s tricky wiring up the right primitives just well enough to match that “it just worked” feeling. Today we’re releasing Strands harness: a fully assembled state-of-the-art agent harness you can easily run locally or deploy to your favorite provider.
- ▪But the moment you build your own agent, you’re on your own.
- ▪It’s tricky wiring up the right primitives just well enough to match that “it just worked” feeling.
- ▪Today we’re releasing Strands harness: a fully assembled state-of-the-art agent harness you can easily run locally or deploy to your favorite provider.
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All postsSeptember 21, 20266 min readIntroducing Strands harness: frontier performance with 28% lower token costStrands harness is a fully assembled, customizable, state-of-the-art agent you run locally or deploy anywhere.Arron Bailiss, Albert Zhao, Tim Moreton, Gautam Sirdeshmukh, Murat Kaan Meral, Ariel NabavianWe noticed builders often wished their Claude Code or Codex setup could run in the cloud because locally their agent idea just “worked” with those harnesses. But the moment you build your own agent, you’re on your own. It’s tricky wiring up the right primitives just well enough to match that “it just worked” feeling. Today we’re releasing Strands harness: a fully assembled state-of-the-art agent harness you can easily run locally or deploy to your favorite provider.
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