Guides

How-to pages for the ADK's developer surface. Each guide walks through one area end to end and links to the module-level reference docs under docs/<module>/ for details.

• Agents — Agent configuration: name, instructions, tools, handoffs, guardrails.
• Tools — Function tools, hosted tools, MCP tools, tool guardrails.
• Handoffs — LLM-orchestrated and code-orchestrated routing.
• Guardrails — User-authored input and output safety gates. Decorator-based and config ref patterns.
• Memory — Episodic + semantic memory; vector stores; embedders.
• Skills — Reusable capability bundles (instructions + tools + governance).
• Tracing — OpenInference / OpenTelemetry; Arize, Phoenix, Langfuse exporters.
• Cost — CostEstimator, CostLedger, LLMRouter (CheapestFirst, LatencyFirst).
• Sandbox — Sandbox-isolated tool execution; Docker / K8s / hosted-bridge clients.
• A2A — Agent-to-Agent protocol.
• MCP — Model Context Protocol client + server.