Strands Harness

All posts September 21, 2026 6 min read Introducing Strands harness: frontier performance with 28% lower token cost Strands harness is a fully assembled, customizable, state-of-the-art agent you run locally or deploy anywhere.

We noticed builders often wished their Claude Code or Codex setup could run in the cloud because locally their agent idea just “worked” with those harnesses.

But the moment you build your own agent, you’re on your own. It’s tricky wiring up the right primitives just well enough to match that “it just worked” feeling.