🧑💻ADK Go
An open-source, code-first Go toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control.
⭐ Popular: 9k stars, gaining about 41 a week
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why it's a big deal
- Gives Go developers a first-party toolkit for building AI agents in their own language, rather than dropping into Python or Java for agent work.
- Targets teams shipping cloud-native services, with stated deployment support for Google Cloud Run and a deployment-agnostic design.
- Model-agnostic and compatible with other frameworks, so it is optimized for Gemini but not locked to it.
under the hood
- Code-first Go library, installed via go get google.golang.org/adk/v2 and licensed Apache 2, where agent logic, tools, and orchestration are defined directly in Go.
- Organized into modular components including agent, model, tool, runner, session, memory, plugin, and workflow packages.
- Supports multi-agent composition and lets agents use pre-built tools, custom functions, or existing tools; sibling ADK versions exist for Python and Java.
Radar summary, generated from the project's public sources
star history
- PR#21 2k 2025-11-12
- now 9k + 6k since first covered
curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.
understory
Quietly building: more output than attention, for now.
- output, commits & releases
- clout, star velocity
output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →
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Build scalable AI agents in Go
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