20 ADK Code Reference alternatives
ADK Code Reference: Google's skill for writing agent code with the Agent Development Kit (ADK) in Python or Go: agent types, tools, callbacks, state, multi-agent orchestration, the graph Workflow API and a catalogue of reference recipes, used with agents-cli. 20 agent skills do similar work, most sharing Google Cloud, Agents and Multi-agent, ranked by how much they have in common with ADK Code Reference.
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by Inngest
Build crash-safe AI agents on AgentKit and step.ai — durable tool calls, human-in-the-loop approval, realtime progress, and when not to reach for an agent loop at all.
Also: Agents, Multi-agent
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by VoltAgent
VoltAgent's official conventions skill — when to reach for an agent versus a workflow, the expected project layout, and the core snippets for agents, workflows, memory and servers.
Also: Agents, Multi-agent
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by Google
Google's skill for deploying agents with agents-cli to Agent Runtime, Cloud Run or GKE: choosing a target, CI/CD pipelines, service accounts, secrets, rollback, Agent Gateway and production troubleshooting.
Also: Agents, Google Cloud
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by Temporal
Temporal's official skill for building durable workflows — SDK patterns across seven languages, plus the determinism rules that decide whether a workflow survives a replay.
Also: Go
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by Google Cloud
Google's official Spanner skill: provision instances, design primary keys that do not hotspot, write SQL and client-library code, and diagnose slow queries — with DDL and DML gated behind your approval.
Also: Google Cloud
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by Google
Google's official Cloud SQL skill — create and connect MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server instances with the right gcloud commands, Auth Proxy setup, HA and backup model.
Also: Google Cloud
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by Google
Google's official AlloyDB for PostgreSQL skill — cluster and instance lifecycle from gcloud, plus hard rules on private connectivity, IAM database auth and backup behaviour.
Also: Google Cloud
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by Google Cloud
Google's official skill for calling Gemini on Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) with the Gen AI SDK — Python, JS/TS, Go, Java and C#, plus tools, multimodal input and the Live API.
Also: Google Cloud
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by Google Cloud
Google's official skill for getting Google Cloud authentication right — human identities, service accounts, Application Default Credentials, and the failure modes agents usually hit.
Also: Google Cloud
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by Google Cloud
Google's official skill for driving the gcloud CLI safely from an agent: validate every command against its own help text, cap the output, and refuse the operations that should never run unattended.
Also: Google Cloud
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by Google
Google's official Well-Architected Framework skill for the security pillar — turns an architecture review into a structured interview, gap analysis and prioritised recommendations.
Also: Google Cloud
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by Google
Google's official GKE skill — when Autopilot beats Standard, Workload Identity instead of JSON keys, Autopilot's 250m CPU rounding, and private-cluster flags.
Also: Google Cloud
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by Google
Google's official Cloud Run skill — deploy services, jobs and worker pools correctly, with the IAM roles, port contract and gotchas that break first deployments.
Also: Google Cloud
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by Google
Google's official BigQuery skill — datasets, tables, jobs and SQL from the bq CLI, plus the reference set for IAM, Terraform, change history and continuous queries.
Also: Google Cloud
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by Genkit (Google)
The official Genkit skill for Node.js and TypeScript — flows, Dotprompt files, tools and the beta agent API with sessions, interrupts and branching.
Also: Agents
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by Vercel
Vercel's official skill for the AI SDK (the ai package): it makes the agent check the version-matched docs bundled in node_modules instead of memory, set up AI Gateway, list current model IDs and build agents with ToolLoopAgent.
Also: Agents
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by Microsoft
Microsoft's official skill for building, deploying, evaluating, fine-tuning and operating agents and models on Microsoft Foundry with azd and the Foundry MCP tools, from project setup and RBAC to quota, tracing and CI/CD.
Also: Agents
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by Mastra
Mastra's official framework skill: makes an agent check embedded docs in node_modules before writing agents, workflows, tools or memory, verify models against the provider registry, query traces with mastra api, and deploy to Mastra Platform.
Also: Agents
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by Cloudflare
Build on @cloudflare/sandbox@next, the Sandbox SDK 1.0 preview — with a package gate that stops an agent mixing preview APIs into a stable app.
Also: Agents
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by Matt Pocock
Compress the current Claude Code session into a portable handoff document so a fresh agent can continue the work without re-reading the whole conversation.
Also: Agents
