The Sequence Engineering #528: Inside Google's New Agent Development Kit
ADK provides the foundation for the implementation of multi-agent systems.
One today’s engineering section, I would like to dive into one of Google’s recent announcements in agentic development. The Agent Development Kit (ADK) is an open-source Python framework to support the full lifecycle of intelligent agent development—from prototyping and evaluation to production deployment. Designed with composability and extensibility in mind, ADK empowers researchers and developers to build robust agentic systems ranging from simple task handlers to complex, multi-agent orchestration layers. Its native integration with Google's Gemini models and the broader Vertex AI ecosystem significantly enhances performance and scalability.
Architectural Overview
ADK is composed of five architectural primitives that together form a high-level abstraction layer for agentic applications: