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Agent Development Kit for Go (Google ADK) shipped an update

Google's open-source Agent Development Kit for Go (Google ADK) has been updated, with the code-first Go toolkit for building, evaluating and deploying AI agents now at 8.8k GitHub stars as of its September 2026 release. The Apache-2.0-licensed project is optimized for Gemini but remains model-agnostic and deployment-agnostic, targeting Go teams building cloud-native, concurrent agent services on Google Cloud or elsewhere. It trails alternatives including langchain (147k stars), ruflo (73k), MetaGPT (71k), autogen (61k) and crewAI (59k).

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Agent Development Kit for Go (Google ADK) shipped an update
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Google's open-source, code-first Go toolkit for building, evaluating and deploying AI agents.

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Go teams building agent services that will run on Google Cloud or elsewhere.

About Agent Development Kit for Go (Google ADK) #

The Go edition of Google's Agent Development Kit brings ADK's code-first approach to building, evaluating and deploying agents to Go, suited to cloud-native, concurrent services. Like the other ADK editions it is optimised for Gemini but model-agnostic and deployment-agnostic, with pre-built tools, custom functions and integrations.

Agent Development Kit for Go (Google ADK) is an open-source project written primarily in Go, with 8.8k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.

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Agent Development Kit for Go (Google ADK) vs. the alternatives #

All 54 alternatives →

Record Stars Pricing
Agent Development Kit for Go (Google ADK)this listing 8.8k Go Apache-2.0 Open source
langchain 147k Python MIT Open source
| [ruflo](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/ruflo) | 73k | TypeScript | MIT | Open source | 
| [MetaGPT](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/metagpt) | 71k | Python | MIT | Open source | 
| [autogen](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/autogen) | 61k | Python | CC-BY-4.0 | Open source | 
| [crewAI](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/crewai) | 59k | Python | MIT | Open source | 

[See all 54 Agent Development Kit for Go (Google ADK) alternatives, compared →](https://agentsearchengine.app/alternatives/google-adk-go)
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