Agent Development Kit (Google ADK)
Google's open-source, code-first Python framework for building, evaluating and deploying AI agents.
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About Agent Development Kit (Google ADK)
Agent Development Kit (ADK) 2.0 is Google's modular framework that applies software development practice to agents. It includes a graph-based workflow runtime with routing, fan-out and fan-in, loops, retries, state and human-in-the-loop steps, a task API for structured agent-to-agent work, a CLI and a web UI for local runs. It is optimised for Gemini but model- and deployment-agnostic, with Java, Kotlin, Go and TypeScript editions.
Agent Development Kit (Google ADK) is listed in this index written primarily in Python, with 22k stars on GitHub. Its latest recorded repository push was in November 2026; that is not an ASE editorial review date.
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