AWS releases open source agent harness, claims fewer tokens than rivals
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AWS has released an open source agent harness called Strands, which it says uses fewer tokens than competing tools. The company claims near-parity with Claude Code and Codex on benchmarks, though the testing only covered coding agents and was self-assessed.
- AWS has released an open source agent harness called Strands.
- AWS claims Strands uses fewer tokens than rival agent harnesses.
- AWS says Strands achieves near-parity with Claude Code and Codex on benchmarks, but the benchmarks only tested coding agents and were marked by AWS itself.
AWS has released an open source agent harness called Strands, which it says consumes fewer tokens than competing products.
The company claims the tool achieves near-parity with Claude Code and Codex on benchmarks. However, the benchmarks only tested coding agents, and AWS marked its own homework.
The release was reported by The Register on 21 September 2026.