⚙️ Setup & Required Tools
  1. Create your AWS Account  Sign up for a free AWS Account →
  2. Install the Strands Agents SDK Available in Python and TypeScript. You can have a working agent running in under 20 minutes.
  1. Request your AWS Credits Registered participants can request $50 in AWS Promotional Credits to cover build costs, while supplies last. Requests must be submitted by September 11, 2026 at 12pm PT. Subject to AWS Promotional Credits terms.

 

📖 Learning Resources

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INSPIRATION

Not sure where to start? Read through these; the best project ideas usually start with a question, not an answer.

    • Everyday Agents - Everyday life is full of small, repetitive tasks that nobody enjoys and everybody forgets like bills creeping up on their due dates, warranties and returns with expiring windows or a family calendar that lives in four different heads. Everyday Agents take that load off. The strongest projects here won’t hand you another app to babysit, they’ll work in the background, make the safe calls on their own and surface only when a human actually needs to weigh in. Think of an agent that watches for bills and flags or schedules them before they're late, one that keeps a household's schedules in sync across everyone, or one that tracks what you bought and quietly handles the return before the window closes. If it makes an ordinary day smoother without adding a single chore, it belongs here.


      Professional Agents - Every profession has work that only a person can judge and a pile of repetitive tasks around it that shouldn't need one. Pro Agents go after that pile. This track is for the builders, specialists and small teams who do skilled work daily like, the contractor buried in compliance paperwork, a teacher turning one lesson into materials for thirty different students, the solo researcher facing a mountain of papers, or a shop owner answering the same booking questions all day. A great Pro Agent clears the runway by drafting, checking, organizing, and following up so the expert can spend their time on the part that needs them. If it makes a professional faster, sharper, or able to take on work they couldn't before, build it here.


      Good Neighbor Agents - Some of the most valuable work happens between people, and it's usually run by volunteers and tiny teams stretched thin. This track is about local life: matching volunteers to the shifts a food bank actually needs, helping a small nonprofit answer questions and coordinate events without a full-time coordinator, keeping a community group's members in the loop, or turning a library's or school's scattered info into something anyone can just ask. Good Neighbor Agents help a group of people and lightens the load on those already holding that group together. If your agent makes a community more organized, more connected, or more resilient, this is its home.