Strands Base Agent
A baseline starter repository for production AI agent services, wiring the published foundry-agent-* packages (dependency injection, lifecycle, retries, OpenTelemetry, tool loading) into a runnable FastAPI-based service that teams fork and customize.
Strands Base Agent is a starter template from the Agent Foundry team, meant to be forked into a team's own environment rather than run as-is. Shared infrastructure - dependency injection, lifecycle management, middleware, retry logic, OpenTelemetry tracing and tool loading - lives in separately published foundry-agent-* Python packages, and this repository is the composition root that wires those packages into a runnable agent service built on FastAPI.
By default the four foundry-agent-* wheels are pinned to GitHub Release URLs so a fresh clone works immediately for evaluation and demos; production deployments are expected to mirror the wheels into an internal package index such as Artifactory or CodeArtifact. The project includes a justfile for setup, linting, type-checking and tests, and documents how to configure the model, system prompt, MCP servers and Agent-to-Agent peers.
It requires Python 3.14 or later and the uv package manager.