--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "a75216ef19d250ec5b568b5995eed8011d8ed55db9896ad5e3b1d97c018edf7a" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/a75216ef?lang=en" title: "AWS Strands Agents Team Releases Strands Harness: An Open-Source Agent Harness With 28% Lower Token Cost at Comparable Accuracy" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-09-21T21:42:14.000Z" category: "Agents" topics: ["amazon","strands","agent","harness","open-source","infra"] source_urls: ["https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/21/aws-strands-agents-team-releases-strands-harness/"] summary: "Many developers find that an agent idea works inside Claude Code or Codex, then struggles once they rebuild it with their own loop. The Strands Agents team at AWS is targeting that gap with Strands harness, a fully assembled, general-purpose agent harness. It runs locally or deploys to a cloud provider, ships for Python and […] The post AWS Strands Agents Team Releases Strands Harness: An Open-Source Agent Harness With 28% Lower Token Cost at Comparable Accuracy appeared first on MarkTechPost ." --- # AWS Strands Agents Team Releases Strands Harness: An Open\-Source Agent Harness With 28% Lower Token Cost at Comparable Accuracy > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-09-21T21:42:14.000Z **Category:** Agents **Topics:** amazon, strands, agent, harness, open\-source, infra ## Summary Many developers find that an agent idea works inside Claude Code or Codex, then struggles once they rebuild it with their own loop\. The Strands Agents team at AWS is targeting that gap with Strands harness, a fully assembled, general\-purpose agent harness\. It runs locally or deploys to a cloud provider, ships for Python and \[…\] The post AWS Strands Agents Team Releases Strands Harness: An Open\-Source Agent Harness With 28% Lower Token Cost at Comparable Accuracy appeared first on MarkTechPost \. ## Sources - [Story source]()