Introduction to Google Agent Development Kit

Introduction to Google Agent Development Kit (ADK): Building Your First AI Agent

What You’ll Learn By the end of this post, you’ll: Understand what Google ADK is Build a working AI agent from scratch Understand ADK’s core architecture (App, Agent, Tools) Prerequisites: Python 3.10+, basic Python knowledge, an API key for an LLM provider (Google, OpenAI, or Anthropic) What is Google ADK? Google ADK (Agent Development Kit) is an open-source, code-first toolkit for building AI agents. It’s Google’s answer to the growing complexity of agent development, designed to make building production-grade agents as straightforward as building a web API. ...

January 14, 2026 · 9 min