strands-agents/harness-sdk
- Total stars
- 8,716
- Today
- +21since 00:24 UTC
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Build an agent harness and control it end-to-end. Open-source SDK for production AI agents in Python & TypeScript - any model, any cloud.
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About the project
Open-source Python and TypeScript SDK for building and running AI agents: agent loop, tools, MCP, memory, multi-agent patterns and tracing in one package. Runs in your process with no hosted control plane and supports multiple model providers.
Useful for
- Build an agent with a calculator and other tools in Python or TypeScript
- Connect an MCP server and call its tools from the agent
- Cap the agent loop with turn and token limits and enable tracing
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 7, 2026, 12:58 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
GitNova spotted this repository 14 hours before it took off on Hacker News.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-07 (UTC), 00:24–12:40: 8695 → 8716 stars (+21). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +36 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 47% of the previous week and a half.
- Hacker News: “Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model” — 215 points, 10 h ago.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
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Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 24 · October 6, 2026. Days with data: 5.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 7, 2026, 12:57 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
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Numbers
- Total stars
- 8,716
- Today
- +21 stars measured 2026-10-07, 00:24–12:40 UTC, ≈ 36 by evening
- Forks
- 1,333
- Issues and pull requests
- 4,736
- Watchers
- 55
- Language
- Python
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Latest release
- python/v1.58.1 · October 6, 2026
- Created
- May 14, 2025
- Last push
- October 6, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
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Hacker News discussions
- Strands Harness148 points, September 23, 2026
Spotted in
- September 27, 2026GitHub Trending Python today: #12, +43 stars
- September 26, 2026GitHub Trending Python today: #12, +44 stars
- September 25, 2026GitHub Trending today: #11, +455 stars; GitHub Trending Python today: #7, +309 stars
- September 24, 2026GitHub Trending today: #9, +463 stars; GitHub Trending Python today: #3, +463 stars
- September 23, 2026GitHub Trending today: #9, +96 stars; GitHub Trending Python today: #3, +96 stars
- September 18, 2026GitHub Trending Python today: #8, +41 stars
- September 17, 2026GitHub Trending Python today: #8, +46 stars
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