Strands Agents offers a modular architecture for creating intelligent agents that combine natural language reasoning, long-term memory, and external API/tool calls. It enables developers to configure planner, executor, and memory components, plug in any LLM (e.g., OpenAI, Hugging Face), define custom action schemas, and manage state across tasks. With built-in logging, error handling, and extensible tool registry, it accelerates prototyping and deployment of agents that can research, analyze data, control devices, or serve as digital assistants. By abstracting common agent patterns, it reduces boilerplate and promotes best practices for reliable, maintainable AI-driven automation.