# adk-java
**Repository Path**: mirrors_google/adk-java
## Basic Information
- **Project Name**: adk-java
- **Description**: An open-source, code-first Java toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No
## Statistics
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- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2025-05-22
- **Last Updated**: 2025-12-20
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## README
# Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Java
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An open-source, code-first Java toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control.
Agent Development Kit (ADK) is designed for developers seeking fine-grained
control and flexibility when building advanced AI agents that are tightly
integrated with services in Google Cloud. It allows you to define agent
behavior, orchestration, and tool use directly in code, enabling robust
debugging, versioning, and deployment anywhere – from your laptop to the cloud.
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## ✨ Key Features
- **Rich Tool Ecosystem**: Utilize pre-built tools, custom functions, OpenAPI
specs, or integrate existing tools to give agents diverse capabilities, all
for tight integration with the Google ecosystem.
- **Code-First Development**: Define agent logic, tools, and orchestration
directly in Java for ultimate flexibility, testability, and versioning.
- **Modular Multi-Agent Systems**: Design scalable applications by composing
multiple specialized agents into flexible hierarchies.
## 🚀 Installation
If you're using Maven, add the following to your dependencies:
```xml
com.google.adk
google-adk
0.3.0
com.google.adk
google-adk-dev
0.3.0
```
To instead use an unreleased version, you could use ;
see for an example illustrating this.
## 📚 Documentation
For building, evaluating, and deploying agents by follow the Java
documentation & samples:
* **[Documentation](https://google.github.io/adk-docs)**
* **[Samples](https://github.com/google/adk-samples)**
## 🏁 Feature Highlight
### Same Features & Familiar Interface As Python ADK:
```java
import com.google.adk.agents.LlmAgent;
import com.google.adk.tools.GoogleSearchTool;
LlmAgent rootAgent = LlmAgent.builder()
.name("search_assistant")
.description("An assistant that can search the web.")
.model("gemini-2.0-flash") // Or your preferred models
.instruction("You are a helpful assistant. Answer user questions using Google Search when needed.")
.tools(new GoogleSearchTool())
.build();
```
### Development UI
Same as the beloved Python Development UI.
A built-in development UI to help you test, evaluate, debug, and showcase your agent(s).
### Evaluate Agents
Coming soon...
## 🤖 A2A and ADK integration
For remote agent-to-agent communication, ADK integrates with the
[A2A protocol](https://github.com/google/A2A/).
See `a2a/README.md` for end-to-end setup instructions and sample commands.
## 🤝 Contributing
We welcome contributions from the community! Whether it's bug reports, feature
requests, documentation improvements, or code contributions, please see our
[**Contributing Guidelines**](./CONTRIBUTING.md) to get started.
## 📄 License
This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the
[LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.
## Preview
This feature is subject to the "Pre-GA Offerings Terms" in the General Service
Terms section of the
[Service Specific Terms](https://cloud.google.com/terms/service-terms#1). Pre-GA
features are available "as is" and might have limited support. For more
information, see the
[launch stage descriptions](https://cloud.google.com/products?hl=en#product-launch-stages).
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*Happy Agent Building!*