Agent harnesses

Google ADK

An open-source, code-first Python toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control.

Open source

★ 22,172 on GitHub · +5 today · last commit Nov 10, 2026

What it is

Our note

Agent Development Kit for Gemini agents; code-first; pairs with Vertex AI Agent Engine

At a glance

Vendor
Google
Business model
Open source
License
Apache-2.0

GitHub activity

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“An open-source, code-first Python toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control.” (repository description)

Stars
22,172
Change since last reading
+5
Forks
4,330
Open issues
430
Last commit
Nov 10, 2026 (0 days ago)
License (GitHub)
Apache-2.0

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