Strands Agents 1.61.0 released
A feature release that adds decision model primitives, MCP v2 support with pagination, and packages Strands for Claude and Codex.
What changed in 1.61.0
- DecisionModel and LLMDecisionModel primitives added for TypeScript.
- MCP v2 prompts and resources methods with paginationToken support.
- Storage configuration now accepts config objects in LocalFileStorage and InMemoryStorage.
- Tool call progress callbacks and client-level request metadata support in MCP.
- Python REPL vended tool added to TypeScript; multi-agent snapshot saves now properly serialized.
Check before you update
- Agent stash is now shared across agents through caller scope, changing context sharing behavior.
Summarised by AgentGid from AWS's official release notes on GitHub, as reported there; read the original before relying on it. Price, status and release dates come from our daily data.
Strands Agents at a glance
| What it is | An open-source SDK from AWS for building and controlling agents in Python and TypeScript. |
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| Latest version | 1.22.0, Oct 21, 2026. This page is about an earlier release. |
| Release pace | 29 stable releases in the last 30 days; 1.61.0 came the same day as the previous one |
| Price | Free (OSS). Strands Agents is open source and free to use; you pay only for the models and infrastructure it runs on. (checked Oct 5, 2026) |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 8.8M down 0.1% |
| Gid Score | 63 #4 in Agent frameworks and SDKs |
Strands Agents releases around 1.61.0
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