python/v1.61.0
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🚀 Features
- feat(skills): package Strands for Claude, Codex, and Cursor (#5123) (5e84caf)
- feat(ts): add DecisionModel primitive and LLMDecisionModel (#4942) (8340c42)
- feat(mcp-ts): add progress callbacks for tool calls (#4302) (5eaf888)
- feat(mcp-ts): added mcp v2 prompts, resources methods with paginationToken (#4296) (f1c4a75)
- feat(storage-ts): accept a config object in LocalFileStorage and InMemoryStorage (#5090) (db38e30)
- feat(mcp): support client-level request metadata (_meta) on tool calls (#4660) (ce9b113)
- feat(context)!: share the stash across agents through a caller-scoped… (#5075) (c033969)
- feat(vended-tools): add python_repl vended tool to TS (#5041) (30facf3)
🐛 Fixes
- fix(site): normalize analytics route URLs (#5007) (12170cf)
- fix(mcp): preserve shared connection when creator aborts (#5065) (1250365)
- fix(google): set include_server_side_tool_invocations when mixing function declarations with built-in tools (#4754) (d485c14)
- fix(storage-ts): reject host-filesystem search strategies with a sandbox (#5093) (5600fcc)
- fix(graph): map cancelled agent results to FAILED and stop downstream routing (#4753) (109c15b)
- fix(python): serialize multi-agent snapshot saves (#4673) (1494d5b)
- fix(openai): map a content-filtered Responses API run to content_filtered (#5074) (80ed9a0)
- fix(openai): map content_filter finish reason to content_filtered (#5072) (c75eb15)
- fix(mcp/ts): forward the call signal to connect and fetch task metadata for unlisted tools (#5043) (dde611f)
📚 Documentation
- docs(storage): add search strategies page and storage section (#5078) (e6f6725)
- docs(catalog): add LoopGrid Strands integration (#4629) (9779f57)
- docs(blog): set harness benchmark post date to 2026-10-13 (#5124) (041a47f)
- docs(blog): add harness cost benchmark post (#5116) (12e67c4)
- docs: list every monorepo directory in CONTRIBUTING and AGENTS (#5120) (7b0569d)
- docs(changelog): sync strands-agents/harness-sdk python/v1.60.0 (#5092) (7d7f1fe)
- docs(site): highlight interactive harness benchmark chart (#5082) (dc03b1c)
- docs(changelog): sync strands-agents/harness-sdk typescript/v1.20.0 (#5006) (58158f7)
✅ Tests
👷 CI
- ci(docs): bump jsdom from 30.0.1 to 30.1.2 in /site (#4994) (229a008)
- ci: bump codecov/codecov-action from 7.0.0 to 7.1.1 (#4430) (19d3be2)
- ci(python): update ruff requirement from <0.17.0,>=0.16.0 to >=0.16.0,<0.18.0 in /strands-py (#5100) (1a47163)
- ci(docs): bump the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory with 2 updates (#5109) (26b4d68)
- ci(docs): bump satori from 0.33.5 to 0.47.1 in /site (#5102) (929e5f8)
- ci(docs): bump vite from 8.3.0 to 8.3.4 in /site (#5104) (685a42a)
- ci(typescript): bump @modelcontextprotocol/client from 2.0.0 to 2.3.1 (#4931) (1647c60)