The Agent Development Kit (ADK) is a modular, model-agnostic framework developed by Google for building AI agents. It supports workflows, tool usage, multimodal input/output, and evaluation, making it ideal for creating flexible and interactive agents. This guide walks you through connecting SambaCloud LLMs to ADK so you can start building your own agents quickly.

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Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have:
  • A SambaCloud API key. Get one by creating a SambaCloud account and getting one in the API keys tab.
  • Python 3.9 or newer installed on your machine

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Setup

  1. To create a virtual environment, open your terminal and run: 
    python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
  2. To install the ADK and LiteLLM libraries, run: 
    pip install google-adk
pip install litellm

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Example use case

To see ADK and SambaCloud working together, check out our multimodal agent example. This example shows how to:
  • Understand and process images
  • Use external tools during a workflow
  • Turn a visual mockup into a simple web page

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Agent Development Kit docs

See the official ADK documentation for more details and advanced features.