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Strands Agents

AWS's model-driven agent SDK — give it a prompt and tools and let the model plan, call tools, and reflect in a loop. First-class Bedrock, MCP-native, OpenTelemetry tracing.

★ 6.3k on GitHub·Python·data updated 2026-06-26
GitHub stars★ 6.3k
LanguagePython
CategoryAgent frameworks

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LangGraph

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Graph-based orchestration for stateful, multi-actor agent workflows with explicit control flow and checkpointing.

Google ADK

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Google's Agent Development Kit — a code-first, model-agnostic toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying multi-agent systems. Optimized for Gemini.

OpenAI Agents SDK

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OpenAI's lightweight agent framework — a small set of primitives (Agents, Handoffs, Guardrails, Sessions); provider-agnostic via LiteLLM. Evolved from Swarm.

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