Community tools package

Name: Strands Agents SDK
Author: Strands Agents

The former community tools package is not required for the examples in this documentation. Use vended tools for common file, shell, HTTP, notebook, sleep, stop, and web-fetch capabilities maintained with the SDK.

For capabilities that do not have a vended equivalent, use one of these supported extension points:

Write a custom tool.
Connect an MCP server.
Use the SDK-native Graph, Swarm, or agents-as-tools APIs.
Use A2AAgent for remote agents.

This keeps examples portable across Python and TypeScript and ties their lifecycle to the SDK version you install.