ADK Python - AI Agent Frameworks Tool

Overview

ADK Python is an open-source, code-first Python toolkit from Google for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents. It provides a modular, developer-centric API surface that emphasizes composing agents from reusable components (planners, executors, memories, and tools) so teams can prototype and iterate quickly in Python. The project is designed to support both single-agent and multi-agent systems, with utilities for orchestration, interaction patterns, and automated evaluation harnesses that let you measure agent behavior against configurable metrics. While ADK Python is optimized for the Google AI ecosystem (including integration patterns for Gemini and Vertex AI Agent Engine), it is intentionally model- and deployment-agnostic: adapters let you plug in different model backends and deployment targets. The repository includes examples, reference implementations, and deployment guides for environments such as Cloud Run and Vertex AI Agent Engine. According to the GitHub repository, ADK Python emphasizes code-first experimentation, reproducible evaluation, and production-ready deployment patterns, making it useful for researchers, ML engineers, and product teams building agentic applications.

Installation

Install via pip:

git clone https://github.com/google/adk-python.git

cd adk-python

pip install -e .

Key Features

• Modular agent components: compose planners, executors, memories, and tools in Python.
• Multi-agent orchestration: utilities to coordinate interactions among multiple agents.
• Evaluation harness: automated tests and metrics for behavior, performance, and regressions.
• Deployment examples: reference patterns for Cloud Run and Vertex AI Agent Engine.
• Model-agnostic adapters: integrate Gemini or other LLM backends through pluggable adapters.

Community

ADK Python is maintained as an open-source Google GitHub project with documentation, examples, and an issue tracker. The repository houses sample projects and reference deployments to help new users get started; contributions and issue reports are handled via GitHub pull requests and issues. For the latest activity, examples, and contribution guidelines, consult the project’s GitHub page (https://github.com/google/adk-python).

Key Information

• Category: Agent Frameworks
• Type: AI Agent Frameworks Tool