Strands Agents 1.0: AWS Production-Ready Multi-Agent Orchestration with Natural Language SOPs Using RFC 2119 Keywords

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AWS shipped Strands Agents 1.0 with multi-agent patterns (Graph, Swarm, Workflow) plus Agent SOPs — standardized natural language instructions using RFC 2119 keywords (MUST, SHOULD, MAY) for consistent multi-step task execution. The SDK is model-agnostic across Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, and Ollama. Already used internally by Amazon Q Developer, AWS Glue, and VPC Reachability Analyzer. Strands Labs introduces experimental projects including robot control via SO-101 arm with NVIDIA GR00T. 14M+ downloads.