Build And Evaluate Production Agents With Google Adk

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name: "Build and evaluate production agents with Google ADK"
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description: "Use Google Agent Development Kit to define, test, evaluate, and deploy code-first Python agents with tools, sessions, HITL confirmation, and multi-agent orchestration."
github_stars: 19526
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source: "https://github.com/google/adk-python"
author: "Google"
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category: "Developer Tools"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
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  github_repo: "google/adk-python"
  github_stars: 19526
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# Build and evaluate production agents with Google ADK

Use Google Agent Development Kit to define, test, evaluate, and deploy code-first Python agents with tools, sessions, HITL confirmation, and multi-agent orchestration.

## Prerequisites

Python 3 environment; google-adk package; model credentials; optional Google Cloud or Vertex AI deployment account

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- pip install google-adk
- pip install "google-adk[extensions]"

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/adk-python/main/assets/agent-development-kit.png" width="256"/>
- An open-source, code-first Python framework for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control.
- **Requirements:** Python 3.11+.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- ### Agent
- from google.adk import Agent
- root_agent = Agent(

- Source: https://github.com/google/adk-python
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/adk-python/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://google.github.io/adk-docs/

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/build-and-evaluate-production-agents-with-google-adk/)