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strands-agents/shell

Give your agent a shell without giving it the keys to your machine.

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How fast strands-agents/shell is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

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Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Aug 21 – Oct 18, 2026

Stars +42 in 59 days

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Forks +13 in 59 days

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Merged PRs 20 in 59 days

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Thu, Oct 8, 2026+6+12
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Sat, Oct 10, 2026+2+00
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Mon, Oct 12, 2026+0+11
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  1. Jun 172 posts

    • GitHub - strands-agents/shell: Give your agent a shell without giving it the keys to your machine. · GitHub

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    • Controlling what AI agents can do is top-of-mind for many customers I talk to. Especially local agents that don't fit into a nice cloud-side box. Strands shell is a new tool for your agent policy…

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