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Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)

Open-source toolkit for building and evaluating Gemini-powered agents and workflows.

verifiedRecently verifiedSource: google-adk-docs
Health medium (38)

Best for

  • Teams building Gemini-based multi-step agent workflows.

Limitations

  • Requires engineering effort for production-grade observability and governance.
  • Feature surface evolves quickly; pin versions in production.

Use carefully when

  • Organizations needing fully managed zero-code automation.

Quickstart

  1. Prototype with local tools first, then add external API integrations incrementally.

Setup checklist

  • • API key required: Yes
  • • SDK quality: medium
  • • Self-host difficulty: medium

Health Meter

  • • Setup complexity: 50
  • • Safety & misuse risk: 40
  • • License/compliance risk: 18

Good baseline for controlled deployment.

Capabilities

  • toolCallingtrue
  • multiAgentPatternstrue
  • evalSupporttrue
  • deploymentAdapterstrue

Benchmarks

githubStars
17950
githubForks
2968
activeMaintainerSignal
90

Community reviews

1 reviews • avg 4

Good agent baseline

4

ADK is solid for Gemini-first agents, but we needed custom observability.

Samples

ADK flow

intent router -> retriever -> planner -> executor

Last verified: 25/2/2026, 2:24:25 am • Source: https://google.github.io/adk-docs/
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