Congratulations to Strands team for launching Agent SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures)! Today, Amazon teams use thousands of SOPs across a variety of different use cases, from code reviews and documentation generation to incident response and system monitoring. The consistent format made it easy to share successful approaches between teams while adapting them for different contexts and requirements. What started as a simple solution to prompt engineering problems became a powerful way to democratize AI expertise across our entire organization. Now we’re making Agent SOPs available as open source because we believe this approach can benefit the broader AI development community. By sharing both the concept and practical examples, we hope to accelerate the adoption of reliable AI workflows across the industry. https://lnkd.in/gihrYmdq
you do realise that SOPs are not devops automation code which are parameterised? Also there is absolutely no guarantee that instructions and steps that works today for one mode or data will work tomorrow for another? On another note to as the drumming of AI adoption and use cases continues - should not each and every mid and senior management be replaced by LLMs - truly what is their value addition today ? What can a LLM not do or answer with better and greater insights and efficiency with less politics, bureaucracy, partiality than a LLM and take better decisions than middle or higher management? Should not all the bosses and their roles be templatised and put into a SOP of devops first? What is the value addition of several layers of mid and top management after all? Imagine the hundreds of billions global industry can save for shareholders and pay to true contributors to baseline if mid and higher management was replaced by SOP based templatised bosses. This should be a true use case where industry could see actual benefits?
Shivam Sahil krep
Congrats to the AWS and Strands teams — open-sourcing Agent SOPs is a meaningful step toward making AI workflows predictable and reusable for everyone. At MantisGrid AI, we’re seeing the same need: once AI agents touch production systems, reliability, drift detection, and failure prediction become mission-critical. Excited to see the ecosystem advancing toward structured, reliable AI execution and appreciate AWS driving this forward.
Beautiful progress yet SOPs still assume the payload is truthful. And that’s the part the entire industry keeps skipping. Every agent framework today runs unauthenticated by default. No signature. No verified intent. No cryptographic ‘should this action be allowed?’ check. SOPs help humans coordinate. A2SPA is what lets agents execute safely.
It seems kiro.dev uses these? I have seen being able to change requirements to design to code within minutes using it!!
Standardising agent workflows this way makes it easier for teams to share patterns and build reliable steps. Opening it up will help a lot of builders move faster.
Agent SOPs are going to make such a difference in how teams build responsibly with AI. Love that you’re open-sourcing it - sharing this playbook will push the entire industry forward Swami.
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The industry has been missing a shared language for "how" agents should operate across different contexts, and this makes best practices reproducible and accelerates real-world adoption. Opening up Agent SOPs is a huge step forward for making agentic AI development more systematic and reliable.
Head of Advanced AI and Strategic Innovation | Building core multimodal Agentic GenAI Solutions-Products-Platforms | AI Patents, 29 AI publications| Led team of 200+ Experts | Author of 5 AI Books 📚
2wThis is amazing Swami