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Agent Development Kit (Google ADK)

Google's open-source, code-first Python framework for building, evaluating and deploying AI agents.

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Checked against public documentation on September 23, 2026. Suitability guidance is our editorial judgment; this is not a performance benchmark or an endorsement.

Best for

Teams building multi-agent systems, especially on Gemini and Google Cloud.

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 an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 22k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.

Install

pip install google-adk

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