Google AI Agent Tools: Vertex AI, Gemini and ADK Explained

Google's positioning in the AI Agent space is becoming increasingly clear: the Gemini 2.5 Flash model, Vertex AI Agent Builder, the ADK development framework... This article provides a systematic breakdown of Google's AI Agent tool ecosystem.

💡 What You Will Learn

Google's positioning in the AI Agent space is becoming increasingly clear: the Gemini 2.5 Flash model, Vertex AI Agent Builder, the ADK development framework... This article provides a systematic brea

curl -X POST https://us-central1-aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT/locations/us-central1/publishers/google/models/gemini-2.5-pro:generateContent

from google.adk import Agent, Tool

class SearchTool(Tool):
    name = "web_search"
    description = ""

    def run(self, query: str) -> str:
        # GoogleCustomAPI
        return search_results

agent = Agent(
    model="gemini-2.5-flash",
    tools=[SearchTool()],
    system_prompt=""
)

response = agent.run("AI Agent")

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