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Agent Development Kit (ADK)

Last updated : Apr 15, 2026
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Apr 2026
Trial ?

Agent Development Kit (ADK) is Google’s framework for building and operating AI agents with software-engineering-oriented abstractions for orchestration, tools, evaluation and deployment. Its ecosystem and operational capabilities have matured significantly since we included it in Assess, with active multi-language development and stronger observability and run-time features. Vendor-native agent frameworks are now a crowded field, with Microsoft Agent Framework, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, the OpenAI Agents SDK and the Claude Agent SDK advancing competing options. Open-source alternatives such as LangGraph and CrewAI remain strong choices, especially where teams prioritize framework portability and broader ecosystems. ADK remains pre-GA in parts, with occasional rough edges and upgrade friction, but we’ve seen more projects using it successfully, particularly those already invested in Google’s platform.

Nov 2025
Assess ?

Agent Development Kit (ADK) es un framework para desarrollar y desplegar agentes de IA que aplica principios modernos de ingeniería de software en lugar de depender únicamente del prompting. Introduce abstracciones familiares como clases, métodos, patrones de flujo de trabajo y soporte para CLI. En comparación con frameworks como LangGraph o CrewAI, la fortaleza de ADK radica en su profunda integración con la infraestructura de IA de Google, ofreciendo grounding de nivel empresarial, acceso a datos y monitoreo listos para producción. También está diseñado para la interoperabilidad, con soporte para wrappers de herramientas y el protocolo A2A para comunicación entre agentes. Para las organizaciones que ya usan GCP, ADK representa una base prometedora para construir arquitecturas de agentes escalables, seguras y gestionables. Aunque aún está en sus primeras etapas de evolución, marca la dirección de Google hacia un entorno nativo y completo para el desarrollo de agentes. Recomendamos seguir de cerca su madurez y el crecimiento de su ecosistema.

Published : Nov 05, 2025

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