What it does. 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
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Before writing agent code, make sure a scaffolded project exists (see Phase 2). Skipping scaffolding loses eval boilerplate, CI/CD config, and project conventions.
Highlights
- If agent should be available to other agents → A2A protocol is built into every Python agent scaffolded by agents-cli; no separate choice needed — just scaffold normally.
- If full deployment chosen → CI/CD runner? GitHub Actions (default) or Google Cloud Build?
- If Cloud Run or GKE chosen → Session storage? In-memory (default), Cloud SQL (persistent), or Agent Platform Sessions (managed).
- If deployment with CI/CD chosen → Git repository? Does one already exist, or should one be created? If creating, public or private?
When to use it. Use when you "develop an agent", "build an agent using ADK", "run the agent locally", "debug agent code", "test an agent", "deploy an agent", "publish an agent", "monitor an agent", or needs the ADK…
Install
npx skills add google/agents-cli --skill google-agents-cli-workflow
Or copy the skill folder manually:
git clone https://github.com/google/agents-cli.git
cp -r agents-cli/skills/google-agents-cli-workflow/ ~/.claude/skills/google-agents-cli-workflow
Source: google/agents-cli — 5,793 stars, Apache-2.0, last pushed 2026-09-01.
