Google Agent Development Kit adds Go language support

Google has added Go to the list of languages supported by the company’s Agent Development Kit (ADK), a modular framework for developing and deploying AI agents.

Introduced November 7, ADK for Go offers an idiomatic, performant way to build agents, said Toni Klopfenstein, a Google developer relations engineer for ADK for Go. Source code can be found on GitHub. Developers can use Go’s concurrency and strong typing to build robust, scalable agentic applications, Klopfenstein said. He described ADK for Go as an open-source, code-first toolkit for developers who need fine-grained control over AI agents. Go joins Java and Python as languages supported by the kit.

Key features cited for ADK for Go include the following: