VP of Cloud AI Saurabh Tiwary, said developers will be able to use it through the entire agent development lifecycle, starting with shaping how agents think, reason, and operate within guardrails, and to select which LLMs they are running in the backend. Interaction with agents won’t be limited to text: ADK also provides bidirectional audio and video capabilities, he said.
Agent Development Kit to help build multi-agent systems faster
Gartner vice president analyst Jim Hare said he expects the ADK will help enterprises accelerate the build-out of in-demand multi-agent systems.
Making the framework open source will free up Google’s engineering resources, Hare said, as it will enable the company to leverage a community of developers to enhance and maintain the code base. “At the same time, Google gains by showing the developer audience it wants to help enterprises benefit from using agentic AI using open software and tooling,” he said.
