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Google Agent Builder + ADK

Google

Vendor

Open platform pairing the Agent Development Kit with managed agent services on Vertex AI.

Curated by Tiberiu ArvaVerified

Proprietary service + open source SDK
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Strengths

  • Open-source ADK
  • Google Search grounding
  • MCP, A2A, and OpenAPI support

Practitioner note

Useful when Vertex AI, search, and Google-first app surfaces matter, but maturity and enterprise standardisation still need close validation.

Governance posture

Reviewed 2026-05-26
PartialData residency

US/EU multi-region controls (CMEK, VPC-SC); not all features single-region. ADK self-hosted is customer-controlled.

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YesDeployment model

Managed Agent Builder on Vertex AI (SaaS); ADK is an Apache-2.0 SDK deployable anywhere. (saas, self-hosted)

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YesAudit logging

Cloud Audit Logs record admin/data operations; Agent Engine supports Cloud Logging/Trace.

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YesSOC 2

Google Cloud / Vertex AI holds SOC 1/2/3.

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YesISO 27001

Holds ISO 27001/27017/27018/27701.

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PartialISO 42001

Google Cloud holds ISO/IEC 42001 broadly; Agent Builder not individually enumerated in the public scope.

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N/AEU AI Act

Agent orchestration platform/SDK; GPAI obligations attach to Google as model provider and to deployers. (role: not-applicable)

YesLicense risk

Managed layer proprietary (Vertex AI); ADK is Apache-2.0. Blended medium. (medium)

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Change history

Source-backed and auto-detected events for this tool, newest first.

  1. FeatureHigh impact

    Google made 50+ fully managed MCP servers available for Google Cloud services, expanding protocol-aligned tool integration options for Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise agent builds.

    50+ fully managed MCP servers now available for Google Cloud services
  2. RenameHigh impact

    Google launched Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, folding Vertex AI and Agent Builder capabilities under a renamed platform with Agent Runtime, Agent Registry, Agent Identity, and related governance surfaces.

    Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform release notes

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