Agent Development Kit
ADK, Google's open-source framework for building, evaluating, and shipping multi-agent systems with tools, sessions, and memory. · Official docs
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- Gemini Capabilities · Prompt Engineering · Function Calling & Tools · Agents & ADK · Agent Engine · RAG & Grounding · Vertex AI Search · Embeddings & Vector Search · Multimodal Live API · Evaluation · Open & Partner Models · MLOps & Deployment
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Agents & ADK (16)
- Get started with Memory Bank on ADK — Build ADK agents that generate, retrieve, preload, and customize Agent Engine Memory Bank memories.
- Building a Multimodal Trip Planner with ADK on Vertex AI Agent Engine Memory Bank — Builds and deploys a multimodal ADK trip planner using Vertex AI Agent Engine Memory Bank.
- Get started with A2A on Agent Engine — Builds, deploys, and queries an A2A Q&A agent on Vertex AI Agent Engine.
- Getting Started with Bidirectional Streaming v2 on Agent Runtime — Builds and deploys Agent Runtime bidirectional streaming agents, including a Live API audio agent.
- Claude with ADK on Vertex AI Agent Engine — Builds and deploys a Claude-powered ADK Reddit agent on Vertex AI Agent Engine with memory and tracing.
- Deploy your containerized agent on Agent Runtime (prev. Agent Engine) — Deploys a BYOC ADK weather agent to Agent Runtime and queries it through the Vertex AI API.
- Deploy your first agent to Vertex AI Agent Engine — Deploys ADK agents to Vertex AI Agent Engine with Express Mode, agent object, and inline source workflows.
- Get started with Agent Engine Terraform Deployment — Deploy Vertex AI Agent Engine agents with Terraform, cloudpickle packaging, and ADK tools.
- Get started with Cloud API Registry on Vertex AI Agent Engine — Builds and deploys an ADK BigQuery data analyst agent using Cloud API Registry on Vertex AI Agent Engine.
- Get started with Code Execution on Vertex AI Agent Engine — Runs LLM-generated Python securely with Vertex AI Agent Engine Sandbox and ADK agents.
- Getting Started with Live API on Agent Engine — Deploys bidirectional streaming agents on Vertex AI Agent Engine using Gemini Live API audio and ADK tools.
- MCP on Vertex AI Agent Engine with custom installation scripts — Deploys a Reddit MCP tool agent to Vertex AI Agent Engine with custom install scripts.
- Building multi-agent systems with Vertex AI and Claude — Builds a Vertex AI Agent Engine multi-agent market analysis system with Gemini, Claude, ADK, A2A, and MCP.
- Building Multi-Agent Systems with Vertex AI and Llama model — Builds a traced Vertex AI multi-agent trading analyst with Gemini, Llama, ADK, A2A, and MCP tools.
- Get started with Sessions and Memory Bank for ADK agents in Cloud Run — Builds an ADK weather agent with Vertex AI Sessions, Memory Bank, and Cloud Run deployment.
- Get started with Sessions and Memory Bank for ADK agents in Google Kubernetes Engine — Builds an ADK weather agent with Vertex AI Sessions, Memory Bank, and GKE deployment.
Embeddings & Vector Search (1)
- 🛡️ AI Brand Safety: Three-Tier Agent Anomaly Detection — Builds ADK agent anomaly detection with Gemini baselines, Vector Search scoring, and tiered audits.
Gemini (8)
- Vertex AI Agent Engine in Express Mode — Build, test, deploy, and query a Gemini ADK currency agent on Vertex AI Agent Engine Express Mode.
- Get started with Vertex AI Memory Bank - ADK — Builds an ADK agent with Vertex AI Memory Bank for long-term user memory across sessions.
- Create & Deploy Agent and Run Gen AI Agent Evaluation — Creates, deploys, runs, and evaluates an ecommerce ADK agent on Vertex AI Agent Engine.
- Evaluate your ADK agent using Vertex AI Gen AI Evaluation service — Evaluates an ADK product research agent with Vertex AI Gen AI Evaluation metrics.
- Gen AI Eval - Multi-turn Agent Eval, User Simulation, Metric Registration, Auto-Loss Analysis — Evaluates ADK travel agents with Vertex Gen AI Eval multi-turn simulation, custom metrics, and loss analysis.
- 🛡️ Agentic GraphRAG: Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence — Builds and deploys an ADK GraphRAG threat-intel agent using Neo4j and Vertex AI Agent Engine.
- GraphRAG on Google Cloud With Spanner and Vertex AI Agent Engine — Builds a GraphRAG Q&A agent with Spanner Graph, Gemini, ADK, and Vertex AI Agent Engine.
- 🌿 Eco-Nomad Swarm: 100% Real-Data Sustainable Travel Orchestration — Builds a Vertex AI ADK travel swarm using Neo4j GraphRAG and live APIs for sustainable trip briefs.
Open Models (2)
- Building an ADK agent using QWEN 3 on Vertex AI — Builds and deploys an ADK weather agent using Qwen3 on Vertex AI and Agent Engine.
- Running Qwen 3 with Ollama in Cloud Run for Agents — Deploys Qwen3:8b with Ollama on GPU Cloud Run and uses it as an ADK agent model.
Vertex AI Search (4)
- Gemini Enterprise custom agent with prompt management — Builds a Gemini Enterprise ADK SQL agent using Vertex AI Prompt Management and schema file context.
- Gemini Enterprise custom agent with Vertex AI session — Builds a Gemini Enterprise travel agent using ADK sub-agents and persistent Vertex AI sessions.
- MCP Server with Gemini Enterprise — Builds an MCP HR leave tool on Cloud Run, connects it to an ADK Gemini agent, and registers it with Gemini Enterprise.
- Open Source Models (Gemma) as a agent with Gemini Enterprise — Deploys Gemma on Cloud Run, wraps it with ADK, deploys to Agent Engine, and registers it in Gemini Enterprise.
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