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Strands Agents Hands-On: Build Your First Agent

The AWS Twin Cities User Group, with ColorStack UMN, runs a free evening session at the University of Minnesota's Health Sciences Education Center where beginners build a first agent in Python with the open-source Strands Agents SDK.

Mon, Nov 16, 11:30 PMUniversity of Minnesota Health Sciences Education Center · Minneapolis · MN
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Why it matters

Strands is a plain-Python agent framework where a tool is a decorated function. The session starts from an empty file and ends with an agent that picks its own tools, a gentle on-ramp for newcomers.

The tokenmaxxing angle

Beginner-level, so the link to spend is indirect. The takeaway is learning when an agent is worth building at all, since an agent loop costs more tokens than a single prompt. Ask how tool-call counts affect cost.

From the organizers

Room HSEC 2110 at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Monday 5:30 to 9 pm, free; hosted by the AWS Twin Cities User Group (81 members). Setup instructions are sent before the event.