# Strands Agents

> Strands Agents is the open source toolkit for building production AI agents in Python and TypeScript. It runs in your process with no hosted Strands control plane.

## Start here

- [Documentation](https://strandsagents.com/docs/user-guide/sdk/quickstart/overview/index.md): Choose a model provider and build your first agent.
- [Harness quickstart](https://strandsagents.com/docs/user-guide/harness/quickstart/index.md): Start with a fully assembled agent.
- [Build with AI coding agents](https://strandsagents.com/docs/user-guide/build-with-ai/index.md): Install the Strands plugin for Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.
- [Examples](https://strandsagents.com/examples/): Explore complete agent examples.

## Official packages

- [Python harness](https://pypi.org/project/strands-harness/)
- [TypeScript harness](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@strands-agents/harness)
- [Python SDK](https://pypi.org/project/strands-agents/)
- [TypeScript SDK](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@strands-agents/sdk)
- [Strands CLI](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@strands-agents/cli)
- [MCP server](https://pypi.org/project/strands-agents-mcp-server/)

## Source and machine-readable docs

- [GitHub repository](https://github.com/strands-agents/harness-sdk)
- [Samples](https://github.com/strands-agents/samples)
- [Documentation index for language models](https://strandsagents.com/llms.txt)
- [Complete documentation corpus](https://strandsagents.com/llms-full.txt)