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Build Your First Agent with Agent Development Kit (ADK)

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Turn your understanding of agents into practical reality by building, configuring, and running your first AI agent using Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK).

In this hands-on course, you’ll set up a complete ADK development environment, create agents with both Python code and YAML configuration, and run them through multiple interfaces. You’ll also learn the core parameters that define agent behavior, taking what you learned in course 1 and applying it to working code.

Syllabus

  • ADK installation with virtual environments
  • The four core parameters: model, name, description, and instruction
  • The root_agent naming convention for ADK tools
  • Configuring .env files with GOOGLE_API_KEY after adk create
  • Three execution modes: adk web, adk run, and adk api_server
  • Programmatic execution with Runner and sessions
  • YAML-based Agent Config for code-free agent definition
  • When to use YAML versus Python for agents

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