Deploy Multi-Agent Systems with Agent Development Kit and Agent Engine
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Learning Track
Generative AI
Delivery methods
On-Site, Virtual
Duration
1 day
In this course, you’ll learn to use the Google Agent Development Kit to build complex, multi-agent systems. You will build agents equipped with tools, and connect them with parent-child relationships and flows to define how they interact. You’ll run your agents locally and deploy them to Vertex AI Agent Engine to run as a managed agentic flow, with infrastructure decisions and resource scaling handled by Agent Engine.
Course objectives
- Build an agent with tools using the Google Agent Development Kit.
- Establish interaction patterns between multiple agents with parent-child relationships and flows.
- Utilize features such as session memory, artifact storage, and callbacks.
- Deploy a multi-agent app to Agent Engine.
- Query an agent app running on Agent Engine.
- Evaluate agents within the Agent Development Kit.
Audience
- Machine learning engineers
- Gen AI engineers
Prerequisites
Python, gen AI prompt engineering, gen AI tool use
Course outline
- Explain how the Agent Development Kit compares to other tools such as the Google Gen AI SDK or LangChain
- Describe the parameters used to build an agent in Agent Development Kit
- Discuss the importance of structured docstrings and typing when writing tool functions for agents
- Demonstrate the ability to provide tools to an agent
- List common and useful tools available for the Agent Development Kit agents, including LangChain tools
- Lab: Get started with Agent Development Kit (ADK)
- Lab: Empower ADK agents with tools
- Describe the directory structure and naming conventions encouraged by the Agent Development Kit
- Demonstrate the ability to create multiple agents and relate them to one another with parent-child relationships
- Describe the different flow options and when you might use them
- Get responses that have passed through multiple agents
- Control content at different points with callbacks
- Lab: Build multi-agent systems with ADK
- Describe the benefits of deploying agents, especially multi-agent systems to Agent Engine over self-hosting such as in Vertex AI online predictions
- Demonstrate deploying to Agent Engine
- Demonstrate querying a deployed agent app
- Lab: Deploy ADK agents to Agent Engine
- Evaluate agents within the Agent Development Kit
- Use the web interface to view evaluations
