George Weale
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Before this change, `RemoteA2aAgent` accepted whatever RPC URL an agent card advertised. Validation only checked that the card's `url` was non-empty and parsed into a scheme and a netloc, so a card fetched over the network could point the conversation, and any auth the client attaches to it, at any host, over cleartext if it liked. Endpoints beyond the top-level `url` were not looked at at all, even though the client factory negotiates its transport across the card's whole interface list and can pick one of them. Now, when the card was fetched over http or https, every URL it advertises must use https and match the origin the card came from, comparing scheme, host and port. Plain http stays allowed on a loopback host, which is the shape the A2A local-development helpers emit. A card supplied as an `AgentCard` object or read from a local file is left alone, since it did not come off the network. Behaviour change: a deployment that serves its agent card from one host and its RPC endpoint from another now raises `AgentCardResolutionError` instead of connecting, and so does one that advertises a cleartext endpoint off loopback. A differing port counts as a differing origin. Because the origin is compared against the URL that was configured rather than the one that finally answered, a card reached through a redirect to another origin is rejected as well. Passing the `AgentCard` object directly or pointing `agent_card` at a local file remains available for those cases. The upstream change routes endpoint enumeration through a compatibility module that straddles `a2a-sdk` 0.3.x and 1.x. This branch pins `a2a-sdk>=0.3.4,<0.4`, so the 0.3.x behaviour is implemented directly as a private helper in `remote_a2a_agent.py` instead.
Agent Development Kit (ADK)
An open-source, code-first Python framework for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control.
Important Links: Docs, Samples, Java ADK, Go ADK & ADK Web.
</html>Agent Development Kit (ADK) is a flexible and modular framework that applies software development principles to AI agent creation. It is designed to simplify building, deploying, and orchestrating agent workflows, from simple tasks to complex systems. While optimized for Gemini, ADK is model-agnostic, deployment-agnostic, and compatible with other frameworks.
🔥 What's new
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Custom Service Registration: Add a service registry to provide a generic way to register custom service implementations to be used in FastAPI server. See short instruction. (391628f)
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Rewind: Add the ability to rewind a session to before a previous invocation (9dce06f).
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New CodeExecutor: Introduces a new AgentEngineSandboxCodeExecutor class that supports executing agent-generated code using the Vertex AI Code Execution Sandbox API (ee39a89)
✨ Key Features
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Rich Tool Ecosystem: Utilize pre-built tools, custom functions, OpenAPI specs, MCP tools or integrate existing tools to give agents diverse capabilities, all for tight integration with the Google ecosystem.
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Code-First Development: Define agent logic, tools, and orchestration directly in Python for ultimate flexibility, testability, and versioning.
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Agent Config: Build agents without code. Check out the Agent Config feature.
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Tool Confirmation: A tool confirmation flow(HITL) that can guard tool execution with explicit confirmation and custom input.
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Modular Multi-Agent Systems: Design scalable applications by composing multiple specialized agents into flexible hierarchies.
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Deploy Anywhere: Easily containerize and deploy agents on Cloud Run or scale seamlessly with Vertex AI Agent Engine.
🚀 Installation
Stable Release (Recommended)
You can install the latest stable version of ADK using pip:
pip install google-adk
To install optional integrations, you can use the following command:
pip install "google-adk[extensions]"
The release cadence is roughly bi-weekly.
This version is recommended for most users as it represents the most recent official release.
Development Version
Bug fixes and new features are merged into the main branch on GitHub first. If you need access to changes that haven't been included in an official PyPI release yet, you can install directly from the main branch:
pip install git+https://github.com/google/adk-python.git@main
Note: The development version is built directly from the latest code commits. While it includes the newest fixes and features, it may also contain experimental changes or bugs not present in the stable release. Use it primarily for testing upcoming changes or accessing critical fixes before they are officially released.
🤖 Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol and ADK Integration
For remote agent-to-agent communication, ADK integrates with the A2A protocol. See this example for how they can work together.
📚 Documentation
Explore the full documentation for detailed guides on building, evaluating, and deploying agents:
🏁 Feature Highlight
Define a single agent:
from google.adk.agents import Agent
from google.adk.tools import google_search
root_agent = Agent(
name="search_assistant",
model="gemini-2.5-flash", # Or your preferred Gemini model
instruction="You are a helpful assistant. Answer user questions using Google Search when needed.",
description="An assistant that can search the web.",
tools=[google_search]
)
Define a multi-agent system:
Define a multi-agent system with coordinator agent, greeter agent, and task execution agent. Then ADK engine and the model will guide the agents to work together to accomplish the task.
from google.adk.agents import LlmAgent, BaseAgent
# Define individual agents
greeter = LlmAgent(name="greeter", model="gemini-2.5-flash", ...)
task_executor = LlmAgent(name="task_executor", model="gemini-2.5-flash", ...)
# Create parent agent and assign children via sub_agents
coordinator = LlmAgent(
name="Coordinator",
model="gemini-2.5-flash",
description="I coordinate greetings and tasks.",
sub_agents=[ # Assign sub_agents here
greeter,
task_executor
]
)
Development UI
A built-in development UI to help you test, evaluate, debug, and showcase your agent(s).
Evaluate Agents
adk eval \
samples_for_testing/hello_world \
samples_for_testing/hello_world/hello_world_eval_set_001.evalset.json
🤝 Contributing
We welcome contributions from the community! Whether it's bug reports, feature requests, documentation improvements, or code contributions, please see our
- General contribution guideline and flow.
- Then if you want to contribute code, please read Code Contributing Guidelines to get started.
Community Repo
We have adk-python-community repo that is home to a growing ecosystem of community-contributed tools, third-party service integrations, and deployment scripts that extend the core capabilities of the ADK.
Vibe Coding
If you want to develop agent via vibe coding the llms.txt and the llms-full.txt can be used as context to LLM. While the former one is a summarized one and the later one has the full information in case your LLM has big enough context window.
Community Events
- [Completed] ADK's 1st community meeting on Wednesday, October 15, 2025. Remember to join our group to get access to the recording, and deck.
📄 License
This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.
Happy Agent Building!