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Products·3d ago·all news from October 16, 2026

AWS Introduces Strands Decider 2B and Strands Box for AI Agent Development

AWS has released two open-source projects, Strands Decider 2B and Strands Box, to assist developers in building and testing AI agents. Strands Decider 2B provides a compact model for making decisions within agent workflows, while Strands Box acts as a sandbox environment to manage agent execution and tool usage. These tools aim to provide infrastructure for developers working on agents that interact with external systems.

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