Google Agents Cli Workflow

This is the main orchestration skill for building agents with Google's Agent Development Kit. It maps out the full lifecycle: scaffold, code, evaluate, deploy, publish, and observe. The skill enforces a "stop and scaffold first" rule to avoid missing boilerplate, then routes you to phase-specific skills for ADK coding patterns, eval loops, and deployment targets like Agent Runtime or Cloud Run. It includes a reference table of sample agents you can clone and study before building, plus product name mappings since Google rebranded Vertex AI to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. If you're building an ADK agent from scratch or enhancing existing code, start here. It will keep you from skipping steps that break later.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add google/agents-cli --skill google-agents-cli-workflow --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Agent Development Workflow & Guidelines

agents-cli is a CLI and skills toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying agents on Google Cloud. It works with any coding agent — Antigravity CLI, Claude Code, Codex, or others — and with the agent framework of your choice (the Agent Development Kit (ADK) by default). Install with uvx google-agents-cli setup.

Before writing agent code, make sure a scaffolded project exists (see Phase 2). Skipping scaffolding loses eval boilerplate, CI/CD config, and project conventions.

Requires: google-agents-cli ~~= 1.14.0 If version is behind, run: uv tool install "google-agents-cli~~=1.14.0"

Check version: agents-cli info Install uv first if needed.

Session Continuity & Skill Cross-References

Re-read the relevant skill before each phase — not after you've already started and hit a problem. Context compaction may have dropped earlier skill content. If skills are not available, run uvx google-agents-cli setup to install them.

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