A coding component within the Google agents-cli suite (SKILL.md signed by Google): When agents use ADK (Agent Development Kit) to write agents, they can look up agent types, tool definitions, orchestration patterns, callbacks, state management, the graph-based Workflow API, and reference examples on demand. Quick references are available for both Python and Go.
skills.sh install count 520922 (+3804 / 24h)
Security Audit: Risk warnings present
- Installs or runs third-party packages (npx / pip, etc.), which constitutes command execution
- Initiates network requests or calls external APIs / remote MCPs
- Audit scope: GitHub google/agents-cli/skills/google-agents-cli-adk-code/SKILL.md (only the SKILL.md text was scanned)
Rationale
- Learn before writing: Before answering "how to do X" in Python, read the example directory in references/recipes.md, which covers sandboxed / user-isolated code execution, skills that can load SKILL.md, cross-session memory, approval gates before dangerous operations, tool guardrails, per-user credentials, and scheduled and event-driven execution; for Go, read the examples/ directory in the upstream adk-go repository
- Do not write code before the project is set up: First check with agents-cli info; for new projects, use agents-cli scaffold create <name> --agent adk_python (use adk_go for Go); for existing code, use scaffold enhance
- Reference files are split by scenario: Core API, graph-based Workflow in ADK Python 2.0 (nodes, edges, fan-out/fan-in, human-in-the-loop), and real-time voice / video agents should each be read separately
- The google-agents-cli-publish skill added yesterday handles publishing, while this one handles coding; the suite has 6 other skills on the leaderboard; skills.sh had 3804 installs in the last 24 hours, with a cumulative total of 520922; weekly installs have dropped from 132594 to 11140 in recent weeks (indicating attention level only)
Usage
- npx skills add https://github.com/google/agents-cli --skill google-agents-cli-adk-code; install the CLI using uv tool install google-agents-cli
- SKILL.md requires enabling /google-agents-cli-workflow first; project creation, evaluation, and deployment are handled by the scaffold, eval, and deploy skills respectively; it is best to install the entire suite together
- Triggered by phrases such as "build an agent with ADK", "add a tool", "create a callback", etc.
Risks
- The installation and network requests flagged in the audit align with the intended use: agents-cli needs to be installed, it curls the llms.txt documentation index from adk.dev and then fetches specific pages, and Go examples require cloning the adk-go repository
- The quick references and example directories under references/ were not scanned
- This is merely an API quick reference and example index, not intended for use outside of agents-cli: Projects without scaffolding will first be required to set up the project