Building My First AI Agent with Strands SDK and Amazon Bedrock Errors, Fixes & Lessons Learned

Introduction I recently attended an AWS event where we built our first AI agent using the Strands Agents SDK and Amazon Bedrock . The quickstart guide looked simple enough — a few lines of Python, some tools, and a running agent. But the real learning happened in the errors. This article walks you through what I built, every error I hit, and exactly how I fixed them. What We Built A simple AI agent that can: Tell you the current time Perform calculations Count letters in a word Three tools. One