☁️agents-cli
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The CLI and skills that turn any coding assistant into an expert at creating, evaluating, and deploying AI agents on Google Cloud.
⭐ Popular: 6k stars, gaining about 153 a week
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momentum
durability
bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.
since we covered it
why it's a big deal
- Gives coding assistants like Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity CLI the skills to build, evaluate, and deploy agents on Google Cloud, targeting developers already working through an AI coding agent.
- Covers the full lifecycle in one tool, from project scaffolding through evaluation, deployment, and Gemini Enterprise registration, so teams do not stitch together separate steps.
- Works standalone from the terminal as well, so the same scaffold, eval, and deploy commands run without a coding agent in the loop.
under the hood
- Wraps Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK); the CLI supplies skills and tools while ADK provides the underlying agent framework.
- Primarily Python (requires Python 3.11+, the uv package manager, and Node.js), with infrastructure defined in HCL and smaller amounts of Go, Java, and TypeScript.
- Evaluation generates traces by running agents against datasets and grades them by metric, while deployment provisions to Agent Runtime, Cloud Run, or GKE with CI/CD and RAG datastore setup.
Radar summary, generated from the project's public sources
star history
- PR#37 4k 2026-07-01
- now 6k + 2k 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
Better known than its recent output, coasting a little on attention.
- 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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A skill suite that teaches a coding agent to build other agents
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