Google Agents CLI: a Claude Code skill by Google
Official
For developers building AI agents with Google's ADK who want guidance from scaffold to deploy. Skip it if your agents will not run on Google Cloud.
The skill's text changed on Nov 4, 2026, after we last read it. Our description may be behind.
- Score
- 89of 100
- Rank
- #9of 239
- Installs
- 565Kon skills.sh
- Security
- Clear 3 scanners
- Updated
- 2026
- Context
- ~141tokens always
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/google/agents-cli
Run it in your terminal. View the source
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What does Google Agents CLI do?
Google Agents CLI is a set of Claude skills that walks Claude through building agents with Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) and the agents-cli tool. A workflow skill sets the phases: agree a spec with you one question at a time, study recipes, run agents-cli scaffold create, write agent code, evaluate, deploy, publish and observe. Other members hold ADK code patterns for Python and Go, the eval loop (agents-cli eval run, datasets in tests/eval/, HTML result files), deploy targets (Agent Runtime, Cloud Run, GKE) with Terraform and CI/CD, and registering a deployed agent with a Gemini app through agents-cli publish gemini.
It comes as a set of skills that work together:
- google-agents-cli-adk-code (534K installs)
- google-agents-cli-deploy (533K installs)
- google-agents-cli-publish (533K installs)
- google-agents-cli-workflow (532K installs)
- google-agents-cli-eval (532K installs)
- google-agents-cli-scaffold (532K installs)
- google-agents-cli-observability (532K installs)
When should you use Google Agents CLI?
Use it when
- You are starting an ADK agent project in Python or Go
- You need an eval dataset and scores for an agent
- You want to deploy an agent to Cloud Run or GKE
Skip it when
- You don't use Google Cloud
- You build agents with another SDK and host elsewhere
What it needs and what it can touch
You need
- The agents-cli tool (uv tool install google-agents-cli)
- uv
- A Google Cloud project for deploy, eval service and publish steps
What it can do
- Runs shell commands (agents-cli, gcloud, terraform)
- Reads and edits project files
- Creates and changes Google Cloud resources when deploying
From reading its instructions, not from running it.
Why it scores 89
Strongest on upkeep (100 of 100), weakest on adoption (78).
Is Google Agents CLI safe to install?
Every scanner that checked it passed it. Scanners often miss what other scanners catch, and a skill can change after a scan. Read its source before you install it.
| Scanner | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Gen Agent Trust Hub | Passed | Nov 4, 2026 |
| Socket | Passed | Nov 4, 2026 |
| Snyk | Low risk | Nov 4, 2026 |
Details
- Installs
- 564,780
- Repository stars
- 6,336
- Last repository change
- Tokens always loaded
- about 141
- Tokens when used
- about 920
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Data confidence
- High
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