Google Cloud Releases Its Agent Development Kit as Agent Taxonomy Crystallizes

As the industry converges on shared vocabulary for AI agents, Google Cloud shipped tools to build them — and several independent posts mapped the emerging taxonomy.

Google Cloud announced its Agent Development Kit (ADK) for building advanced multi-step AI agents, as shared by @googlecloud. The release arrived alongside a weekend of posts attempting to formalize agent categories. @PythonPr outlined eight distinct types of AI agents — from simple reflex agents to fully autonomous goal-seekers — while @pvergadia traced a six-stage evolutionary arc from basic LLM wrappers to self-directed systems.

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