ADK
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“This is my goto SDK, it comes in multiple languages too.”
“I use it with ADK agents, works well.”
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“take a look at ADK, they have features for exactly this, mixing determ with agentic in a dag”
“my recommendation is https://adk.dev/”
“ADK seems like a better thought through SDK family, I use Go”
Caveats and dissent
“some big IDs are not passed precisely in Google ADK framework”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“built on ADK, CUE, and Dagger”
“ADK makes it simple by using a prebuilt Lima VM for CLI deploy”
“this uses Google's ADK to run specialized agents”
Threads where it came up
- Agent design is still hard 3 mentions
- Show HN: Locki – AI sandboxing for real-world projects 2 mentions
- SSE sucks for transporting LLM tokens 2 mentions
- The Agent SDK 1 mention
- Evolving programming languages in the AI era 1 mention
- Why you can need Cloud Run Instances 1 mention
Also written as Google ADK. Data: adk.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 33
“This is my goto SDK, it comes in multiple languages too.”
“here are two I use”
“I use it with ADK agents, works well.”
“take a look at ADK, they have features for exactly this, mixing determ with agentic in a dag”
“my recommendation is https://adk.dev/”
“ADK seems like a better thought through SDK family, I use Go”
“I used ADK, Dagger, and a VS Code extension for mine.”
“can expose a custom Google ADK "agent" via one-liner as a2a”
“GenAI: LangGraph, AutoGen, Google ADK, RAG systems”
“ADK was (and is) exceptional”
“ADK is quite "early" in development”
“them had it.”
“Big fan of ADK, I use the Go version.”
“I use ADK, haven't really looked at Dspy”
“The framework I use (ADK) already handles this, very low hanging fruit”
“I use ADK, a well thought through framework”
“versus something like ADK, developed by many people and backed by Google”
“I use ADK which has many points 3rd parties plug in.”
“I like ADK, it's lower level and more general”
“ADK is great framework for building agents as it is runtime agnostic”
“ADK framework I use handles parallel agents/tools.”
“For Ai, I'm using ADK.”
“I'd look to Google's ADK for what enterprise open source / production features look like.”
“I use ADK and don't have this problem”
“The ADK framework I use does most of the rest”
“That's why I use ADK anyway”
“ADK is open source as I like it”
“the ADK framework I use handles all that bookkeeping for me”
“I use ADK (https://google.github.io/adk-docs/runtime/) and it handles all that bookkeeping for me.”
“some big IDs are not passed precisely in Google ADK framework”
“Generally very optimistic that I found a solid foundation and framework”
“ADK has a few pages and some API for evaluating agentic systems”
“am quite impressed after a week of test driving”