A comprehensive collection of Google ADK implementations: Function Tools, MCP, Vertex AI Agent Engine, RAG Engine, and Agent Starter Pack templates for Cloud Run and GKE.
# ADK Advanced
> **A comprehensive collection of Google Agent Development Kit (Google ADK) implementations**
> Demonstrating advanced capabilities, deployment strategies, and production-ready use cases for building intelligent AI agents.
[](https://github.com/arjunprabhulal/adk-advanced)
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## Table of Contents
- [Repository Structure](#repository-structure)
- [Getting Started](#getting-started)
- [Prerequisites](#prerequisites)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Environment Variables Configuration](#environment-variables-configuration)
- [Vertex AI Agent Engine Capabilities](#vertex-ai-agent-engine-capabilities)
- [Agent Starter Pack (ASP)](#agent-starter-pack-asp)
- [Implementations](#implementations)
- [Core Capabilities](#core-capabilities)
- [1. Tools](#1-tools)
- [2. Model Context Protocol](#2-model-context-protocol)
- [Deployment Implementations](#deployment-implementations)
- [3. Agent Engine Deployment](#3-agent-engine-deployment)
- [4. Cloud Run Deployment](#4-cloud-run-deployment)
- [5. GKE Deployment](#5-gke-deployment)
- [Agent Starter Pack - Remote Template (RAG - Production-ready)](#agent-starter-pack---remote-template-rag---production-ready)
- [6. RAG Agent Remote Template](#6-rag-agent-remote-template)
- [Vertex AI Search (Simple)](#vertex-ai-search-simple)
- [7. Vertex Search Agent](#7-vertex-search-agent)
- [Vertex AI RAG Engine (Simple)](#vertex-ai-rag-engine-simple)
- [8. Vertex AI RAG Engine Agent](#8-vertex-ai-rag-engine-agent)
- [Quick Start](#quick-start)
- [References](#references)
- [Repository](#repository)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [License](#license)
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## Repository Structure
### Directory Overview
| # | Directory | Description | Subdirectories |
|---|-----------|-------------|----------------|
| 1 | [adk_tools/](1_adk_tools/) | Tool implementations | [adk_builtin_tool_agent/](1Google's AI-powered research notebook that ingests your documents and becomes an expert on your content. Generates audio overviews, study guides, FAQs, and interactive discussions from uploaded sources.
Google DeepMind's experimental AI agent that can navigate websites, fill forms, and complete multi-step browser tasks autonomously. Uses Gemini's multimodal understanding to interact with web interfaces.
Google DeepMind's universal AI assistant prototype that can see, hear, and respond in real-time through your device camera and microphone. Demonstrates the future of multimodal AI interaction.
Google Cloud's enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents powered by Gemini. Supports multi-agent orchestration, tool integration, and enterprise governance.
Gemini's agentic research capability that autonomously browses the web, synthesizes information from dozens of sources, and produces comprehensive research reports on any topic.
Interactive coding and content creation agent that generates, previews, and iterates on code, documents, and interactive applications in a side panel. Supports HTML/CSS/JS, Python, and more.