Guides

Practical guides for extending a Strands Base Agent fork.

• After You Fork — the path from a fresh clone to a customized agent
• Adding Tools — give your agent domain-specific capabilities with @tool or TOOL_SPEC
• Adding API Endpoints — expose new HTTP routes alongside /api/v1/query
• Customizing the Server — wire custom session managers, model providers, or backends in server.py
• MCP Servers — connect external tool servers via Model Context Protocol
• Guardrails — set up AWS Bedrock Guardrails for safety filtering
• Embedding process_query — use the agent from CLI, Lambda, or other interfaces
• Built-in HTTP API — reference for the query, streaming, and chat history endpoints
• Built-in A2A Protocol — reference for the agent card, JSON-RPC, and streaming routes