Google ADK 2.0
Open-source agent framework: Python 2.0 beta + TypeScript 1.0 drop
The Panel's Take
Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) just hit two major milestones simultaneously: ADK Python 2.0 Beta with workflows and agent teams, and ADK TypeScript 1.0 reaching stable release. This open-source framework is Google's answer to LangChain and CrewAI — a code-first toolkit for building production-grade AI agents that are testable, versionable, and deployable anywhere. What separates ADK from the competition is its context management philosophy: it treats sessions, memory, tool outputs, and artifacts like source code, assembling structured context where "every token earns its place." The 2.0 beta introduces graph-based workflows and collaborative multi-agent systems, letting developers compose teams of specialized agents into complex hierarchies. It's model-agnostic despite being optimized for Gemini, and supports MCP natively. Deployment is a first-class citizen — native integrations with Cloud Run, GKE, and Vertex AI Agent Engine, plus Google's new Agents CLI for scaffolding, eval, and deploy in one command. With Apache 2.0 licensing and a bi-weekly release cadence, this is shaping up as the enterprise-grade foundation serious agent builders have been waiting for.
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Google ADK 2.0 verdict: SHIP 🚀 3 ships · 1 skip from the expert panel Full review: shiporskip.io/tool/google-adk-2-python-typescript-open-source-agent-framework-2026
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“Graph-based workflows in 2.0 Beta finally make multi-agent orchestration feel sane. The Agents CLI scaffolding saves an hour of boilerplate every new project. Apache 2.0 means no licensing headaches at scale.”
“It's 'model-agnostic' but the Cloud Run and Vertex AI integrations make it a Google Cloud lock-in play dressed in open-source clothing. LangGraph and CrewAI have a 2-year head start and larger ecosystems — ADK needs to prove itself outside Google's walls.”
“ADK being 'designed to be written by both humans and AI' is the key insight here — we're entering an era where agents build agents, and ADK is building the scaffolding for that recursion. TypeScript 1.0 stable means the frontend ecosystem is now fully in play.”
“Visual debugging and evaluation frameworks finally make agent behavior legible — no more blind faith in what your agent actually did. This lowers the floor for non-ML engineers to build reliable agent pipelines.”