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I use it with ADK agents, works well.", "context": "", "use_case": "building agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why you can need Cloud Run Instances"}, {"id": 777488737, "item_id": 48593046, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593046", "by": "fhrow4484", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "can expose a custom Google ADK \"agent\" via one-liner as a2a", "excerpt": "If you're big in the google ecosystem it makes sense: - gemini-cli can have remote a2a agents connected to it. (See https://github.com/tanaikech/gemini-cli-gas-a2a-subagents and the medium article linked in that repo description.) 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It feels like Microsoft .net back in the day. Let's see how it goes. I'm rooting for y'all", "context": "", "use_case": "agent development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Open Sources Experimental Agent Orchestration Testbed Scion"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Practical agents", "summary": "Commenters use it for real agents at work, on Cloud Run, and for automating video edits.", "quotes": [{"id": 742053872, "item_id": 46378367, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378367", "by": "somedumbguy22", "date": "2025-12-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Google's Agent Development Kit (adk)[0] at work and enjoy using it quite a bit.", "excerpt": "I use Google's Agent Development Kit (adk)[0] at work and enjoy using it quite a bit. 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I use it with ADK agents, works well.", "context": "", "use_case": "building agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why you can need Cloud Run Instances"}]}, {"label": "SDK design", "summary": "Described as exceptional and as a better thought-through SDK family than alternatives.", "quotes": [{"id": 763001168, "item_id": 47687573, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687573", "by": "harlequinetcie", "date": "2026-04-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ADK was (and is) exceptional", "excerpt": "Oh Google, I love you guys, but it seems they alway launch these half baked things without the support they deserve behind it. ADK was (and is) exceptional, but nobody is actually making noise and pushing for it as they should. It feels like Microsoft .net back in the day. Let's see how it goes. 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The docs still need a lot of work to cover all the languages, it's pretty hit or miss right now, but one can also have a coding agent look at the source and an example for another language. https://adk.dev/get-started/about/ | https://github.com/google/adk-go", "context": "Go user", "use_case": "building AI agents in Go", "switched_from": "", "story": "Go LLM SDK for streaming, tool-calling AI backends (plus frontend React lib)"}, {"id": 759855152, "item_id": 47490947, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490947", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use ADK, haven't really looked at Dspy", "excerpt": "Have you looked at ADK? How does it compare? Does it even fit in the same place as Dspy? https://google.github.io/adk-docs/ Disclaimer, I use ADK, haven't really looked at Dspy (though I have prior heard of it). ADK certainly addresses all of the points you have in the post.", "context": "", "use_case": "agent development", "switched_from": "", "story": "If Dspy is so great, why isn't anyone using it?"}]}, {"label": "Google integration", "summary": "Agents can be exposed as A2A with a one-liner and connected to gemini-cli, and run well on Cloud Run.", "quotes": [{"id": 777488737, "item_id": 48593046, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593046", "by": "fhrow4484", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "can expose a custom Google ADK \"agent\" via one-liner as a2a", "excerpt": "If you're big in the google ecosystem it makes sense: - gemini-cli can have remote a2a agents connected to it. (See https://github.com/tanaikech/gemini-cli-gas-a2a-subagents and the medium article linked in that repo description.) Haven't tried it but I tried the local use case below. - can expose a custom Google ADK \"agent\" via one-liner as a2a, which you can connect to the gemini-cli the same way.", "context": "Google ecosystem", "use_case": "exposing agents via A2A", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol yet?"}, {"id": 795241890, "item_id": 49702618, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49702618", "by": "taintech", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it with ADK agents, works well.", "excerpt": "Easy pattern in Cloud Run, if anyone is interested for AI agents. Use invocation based Cloud Run with Cloud Tasks. User calls service in Cloud Run, Cloud Run start Cloud Task that holds connection for 30 minutes. Cheap and easy patterns, and you avoid no cpu throttling too. I use it with ADK agents, works well.", "context": "", "use_case": "building agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why you can need Cloud Run Instances"}]}, {"label": "Multiple languages", "summary": "Available for Go, Python, TypeScript and Java, with Python the most mature.", "quotes": [{"id": 785776640, "item_id": 49111040, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111040", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-07-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ADK seems like a better thought through SDK family, I use Go", "excerpt": "ADK seems like a better thought through SDK family, I use Go, Py is most mature, also TS and Java. The docs still need a lot of work to cover all the languages, it's pretty hit or miss right now, but one can also have a coding agent look at the source and an example for another language. https://adk.dev/get-started/about/ | https://github.com/google/adk-go", "context": "Go user", "use_case": "building AI agents in Go", "switched_from": "", "story": "Go LLM SDK for streaming, tool-calling AI backends (plus frontend React lib)"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Uneven docs", "summary": "Docs are hit or miss across languages and still need a lot of work.", "quotes": [{"id": 785776640, "item_id": 49111040, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111040", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-07-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ADK seems like a better thought through SDK family, I use Go", "excerpt": "ADK seems like a better thought through SDK family, I use Go, Py is most mature, also TS and Java. The docs still need a lot of work to cover all the languages, it's pretty hit or miss right now, but one can also have a coding agent look at the source and an example for another language. https://adk.dev/get-started/about/ | https://github.com/google/adk-go", "context": "Go user", "use_case": "building AI agents in Go", "switched_from": "", "story": "Go LLM SDK for streaming, tool-calling AI backends (plus frontend React lib)"}]}, {"label": "Weak promotion", "summary": "One commenter feels Google launched it without the support and promotion it deserves.", "quotes": [{"id": 763001168, "item_id": 47687573, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687573", "by": "harlequinetcie", "date": "2026-04-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ADK was (and is) exceptional", "excerpt": "Oh Google, I love you guys, but it seems they alway launch these half baked things without the support they deserve behind it. ADK was (and is) exceptional, but nobody is actually making noise and pushing for it as they should. It feels like Microsoft .net back in the day. Let's see how it goes. 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Use invocation based Cloud Run with Cloud Tasks. User calls service in Cloud Run, Cloud Run start Cloud Task that holds connection for 30 minutes. Cheap and easy patterns, and you avoid no cpu throttling too. I use it with ADK agents, works well.", "context": "", "use_case": "building agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why you can need Cloud Run Instances"}, {"id": 793827840, "item_id": 49614240, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49614240", "by": "TYPE_FASTER", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used Google's Agent Development Kit to make a super simple agent outside of Resolve", "excerpt": "I used Google's Agent Development Kit to make a super simple agent outside of Resolve that I can use to say \"take a 10s clip from file1.mp4 starting at 00:01:25 and a 20s clip from file2.mp4 starting at 00:02:00\" then tell it to preview and render. Speeds things up.", "context": "", "use_case": "video clip editing agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}, {"id": 785776640, "item_id": 49111040, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111040", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-07-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ADK seems like a better thought through SDK family, I use Go", "excerpt": "ADK seems like a better thought through SDK family, I use Go, Py is most mature, also TS and Java. The docs still need a lot of work to cover all the languages, it's pretty hit or miss right now, but one can also have a coding agent look at the source and an example for another language. https://adk.dev/get-started/about/ | https://github.com/google/adk-go", "context": "Go user", "use_case": "building AI agents in Go", "switched_from": "", "story": "Go LLM SDK for streaming, tool-calling AI backends (plus frontend React lib)"}, {"id": 779800065, "item_id": 48737504, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48737504", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-06-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used ADK, Dagger, and a VS Code extension for mine.", "excerpt": "Lots of ways, it's a good exercise that you will learn a lot doing. Might make you cynical w.r.t. big ai harnesses I used ADK, Dagger, and a VS Code extension for mine. Currently using opencode though.", "context": "", "use_case": "building personal harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests"}, {"id": 777488737, "item_id": 48593046, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593046", "by": "fhrow4484", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "can expose a custom Google ADK \"agent\" via one-liner as a2a", "excerpt": "If you're big in the google ecosystem it makes sense: - gemini-cli can have remote a2a agents connected to it. (See https://github.com/tanaikech/gemini-cli-gas-a2a-subagents and the medium article linked in that repo description.) Haven't tried it but I tried the local use case below. - can expose a custom Google ADK \"agent\" via one-liner as a2a, which you can connect to the gemini-cli the same way.", "context": "Google ecosystem", "use_case": "exposing agents via A2A", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol yet?"}, {"id": 763001168, "item_id": 47687573, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687573", "by": "harlequinetcie", "date": "2026-04-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ADK was (and is) exceptional", "excerpt": "Oh Google, I love you guys, but it seems they alway launch these half baked things without the support they deserve behind it. ADK was (and is) exceptional, but nobody is actually making noise and pushing for it as they should. It feels like Microsoft .net back in the day. Let's see how it goes. I'm rooting for y'all", "context": "", "use_case": "agent development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Open Sources Experimental Agent Orchestration Testbed Scion"}, {"id": 759855152, "item_id": 47490947, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490947", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use ADK, haven't really looked at Dspy", "excerpt": "Have you looked at ADK? How does it compare? Does it even fit in the same place as Dspy? https://google.github.io/adk-docs/ Disclaimer, I use ADK, haven't really looked at Dspy (though I have prior heard of it). ADK certainly addresses all of the points you have in the post.", "context": "", "use_case": "agent development", "switched_from": "", "story": "If Dspy is so great, why isn't anyone using it?"}, {"id": 757881600, "item_id": 47367600, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367600", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-03-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The framework I use (ADK) already handles this, very low hanging fruit", "excerpt": "I don't want some other tooling messing with my context. It's too important to leave to something that needs to optimize across many users, there by not being the best for my specifics. The framework I use (ADK) already handles this, very low hanging fruit that should be a part of any framework, not something external. In ADK, this is a boolean you can turn on per tool or subagent, you can even decide turn by turn or", "context": "", "use_case": "agent context management", "switched_from": "", "story": ""}, {"id": 754248736, "item_id": 47140546, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140546", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use ADK which has many points 3rd parties plug in.", "excerpt": "I use ADK which has many points 3rd parties plug in. I'm also involved in the development (from the outside). I will look more into Pilo and how this could work. Would save me a bunch of effort! I'll open an issue for tracking --- said issue: https://github.com/mozilla/pilo/issues/318", "context": "involved in development from the outside", "use_case": "agent framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Pilo \u2013 open-source agentic web automation engine by Mozilla"}, {"id": 752720816, "item_id": 47045051, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045051", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-02-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "ADK framework I use handles parallel agents/tools.", "excerpt": "Is this more than keeping history before compaction, making it all available via tools, and some backend bookkeeping for parallel tool calls? I'm not exactly sure what is interesting here Much of this feels like a technical report of what they did, and makes me feel like we've reached the ICO whitepaper phase. I have very similar features in my custom coding agent, they seem pretty common sense to have. Are you reall", "context": "", "use_case": "custom coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "LCM: Lossless Context Management"}, {"id": 751855696, "item_id": 46990981, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990981", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-02-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use ADK and don't have this problem", "excerpt": "I use ADK and don't have this problem, I can switch sessions in my coding agent and they keep running in the background. If a new event comes in, and I have that session open, then the UI updates This isn't really a problem, just bad design on the apps part. tl;dr - don't intertwine your agent engine with UI rendering, easy enough?", "context": "", "use_case": "building coding agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh"}, {"id": 749472401, "item_id": 46842025, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842025", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-01-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The ADK framework I use does most of the rest", "excerpt": "I solved this with Dagger and OCI layers, so I get all these same features while also doing so in an isolated environment in a ubiquitous format. The ADK framework I use does most of the rest Not a prod time thing, unless you consider a coding agent using this as prod, because it's the real thing at development time", "context": "", "use_case": "agent framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I built a small OSS kernel for replaying and diffing AI decisions"}, {"id": 742053872, "item_id": 46378367, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378367", "by": "somedumbguy22", "date": "2025-12-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Google's Agent Development Kit (adk)[0] at work and enjoy using it quite a bit.", "excerpt": "I use Google's Agent Development Kit (adk)[0] at work and enjoy using it quite a bit. [0]: https://google.github.io/adk-docs/", "context": "uses it at work", "use_case": "building agents at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Agent Framework"}, {"id": 740121312, "item_id": 46257582, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257582", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2025-12-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use ADK (https://google.github.io/adk-docs/runtime/) and it handles all that bookkeeping for me.", "excerpt": "Exactly, I use ADK (https://google.github.io/adk-docs/runtime/) and it handles all that bookkeeping for me. If my client disconnects, the engine continues to run until the turn is up, recording all events. We need more frameworks like ADK that handle the bookkeeping and give us great abstractions for building agentic systems.", "context": "", "use_case": "building agentic systems with resumable streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "SSE sucks for transporting LLM tokens"}, {"id": 736031696, "item_id": 46001981, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46001981", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2025-11-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "am quite impressed after a week of test driving", "excerpt": "I've been using https://google.github.io/adk-docs/ and am quite impressed after a week of test driving", "context": "", "use_case": "building AI agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Best solution to build AI agents?"}]}