adk-samples provides small, runnable sample agents that teach canonical patterns and serve as a working foundation to fork for custom projects. Recipes are organized into core patterns curated by the agents-cli team and broader community-contributed examples.
Project overview
It directly addresses the blank-page problem of starting an AI agent project by offering focused, runnable recipes that demonstrate specific patterns such as OAuth flows, session memory, guardrails, and RAG patterns.
Project type
AI Agent · AI Coding
Use cases
Knowledge Q&A · Search & Research
Deployment
Refer to project documentation
License
Apache-2.0
Best for
Developers who need runnable reference code for common AI agent patterns before building their own project.
AI engineers looking for a working foundation to fork for a custom agent project.
Community contributors who want scaffolding and manifest tooling for submitting new example agents.
Key capabilities
Small, focused recipes curated by the agents-cli team teaching specific patterns like OAuth flows, session memory, guardrails, and RAG patterns.
Self-contained example agents for specific use cases or industry workflows contributed by the community.
Recipe scaffolding, manifest generation, pyproject alignment and other contributor tooling skills.
Limitations and risks
Recipes are intended for demonstration and as starting points, not for production use.
This project is not an officially supported Google product and is not eligible for the Google OSS Vulnerability Rewards Program.
Getting started
Install ADK from the ADK Get Started guide, choose a recipe from core/ or contrib/, then follow that recipe's own README.md for its specific setup and run instructions. Setup difficulty is medium because it requires installing the ADK SDK, understanding multiple SDK options, and following per-recipe instructions.
Evidence and sources
GitHub project description: A collection of sample agents built with Agent Development Kit (ADK)
README: Welcome. This is a public collection of ADK recipes — small, runnable agents that show how to solve real problems with the Agent Development Kit
README: canonical patterns curated by the agents-cli team. Small, focused recipes that teach one thing well (OAuth flows, session memory, guardrails, RAG patterns)
README: Install ADK from the ADK Get Started guide. Language SDKs:
README: Contributor workflow skills (recipe scaffolding, manifest generation, pyproject alignment, and more) live in .agents/skills/
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