Agent Development Kit (ADK)

An open-source, code-first Python toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control.

Agent Development Kit (ADK) is designed for developers seeking fine-grained control and flexibility when building advanced AI agents that are tightly integrated with services in Google Cloud. It allows you to define agent behavior, orchestration, and tool use directly in code, enabling robust debugging, versioning, and deployment anywhere – from your laptop to the cloud.

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✨ Key Features

• Rich Tool Ecosystem: Utilize pre-built tools, custom functions, OpenAPI specs, or integrate existing tools to give agents diverse capabilities, all for tight integration with the Google ecosystem.

• Code-First Development: Define agent logic, tools, and orchestration directly in Python for ultimate flexibility, testability, and versioning.

• Modular Multi-Agent Systems: Design scalable applications by composing multiple specialized agents into flexible hierarchies.

• Deploy Anywhere: Easily containerize and deploy agents on Cloud Run or scale seamlessly with Vertex AI Agent Engine.

🚀 Installation

You can install ADK using pip:

pip install google-adk

📚 Documentation

Explore the full documentation for detailed guides on building, evaluating, and deploying agents:

• Documentation

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! Whether it's bug reports, feature requests, documentation improvements, or code contributions, please see our Contributing Guidelines to get started.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Preview

This feature is subject to the "Pre-GA Offerings Terms" in the General Service Terms section of the Service Specific Terms. Pre-GA features are available "as is" and might have limited support. For more information, see the launch stage descriptions.

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Happy Agent Building!