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Google Agent Development Kit

Google's open-source agent framework with multi-agent, A2A protocol, and production deployment.

Open source

Best for teams in the Google Cloud ecosystem that want a native agent framework with multi-agent orchestration, evaluation, and deployment tooling.

Selection advice

Choose Google ADK when your stack is Google Cloud and you need multi-agent orchestration with production deployment paths. The A2A protocol is the interoperability story.

Best for

  • Google Cloud teams
  • multi-agent systems
  • A2A protocol
  • production deployment

Not ideal for

  • multi-cloud teams avoiding Google lock-in
  • simple single-agent use cases

Core concepts

agentstoolsmulti-agentA2A protocoldeployment

Minimal implementation shape

Define an agent with Gemini, add tools, orchestrate multi-agent flows with A2A protocol, then deploy via Google Cloud.

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