# Google announces the Agent Development Kit

> Google announced the Agent Development Kit, an open-source framework for building and evaluating multi-agent applications. The company described model flexibility, tool use, workflow composition, and Vertex AI deployment integration. Application security, evaluation quality, data handling, and operational ownership remain work for each implementing team directly.

Canonical: https://hypler.com/ai-news/google-agent-development-kit-2025
Hypler publication: 2026-10-06
Original source date: 2025-04-09
Publisher: Google
Article kind: source-briefing
Category: Developer tools
Tags: agents, orchestration, Google

## Engineering relevance

Framework convenience should not hide orchestration complexity. Hypler should define agent roles, tool boundaries, termination conditions, and test scenarios before adopting multi-agent patterns in practice.

## Original source

- [Google](https://developers.googleblog.com/en/agent-development-kit-easy-to-build-multi-agent-applications/)

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