Deploy Multi-Agent Systems with Agent Development Kit and Agent Engine (DMASADKAE) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1 - Get started with the Agent Development Kit

Topics

  • Basics of building an agent in the Agent Development Kit.

Objectives

  • Explain how the Agent Development Kit compares to other tools such as the Google Gen AI SDK or LangChain.
  • Describe the parameters used to build an agent in Agent Development Kit.

Activities

  • Lecture and lab demo

Module 2 - Empower Agent Development Kit agents with tools

Topics

  • Enhance agents with tools and cover the growing breadth of available tools.

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of structured docstrings and typing when writing tool functions for agents.
  • Demonstrate the ability to provide tools to an agent.
  • List common and useful tools available for the Agent Development Kit agents, including LangChain tools.

Activities

  • A lecture and a lab

Module 3 - Build Multi-Agent Systems with Agent Development Kit

Topics

  • Manage communication and task-sharing between agents through parent-child relationships and flows to enable coordinated responses to queries.

Objectives

  • Describe the directory structure and naming conventions encouraged by the Agent Development Kit.
  • Demonstrate the ability to create multiple agents and relate them to one another with parent-child relationships.
  • Describe the different flow options and when you might use them.
  • Get responses that have passed through multiple agents.
  • Control content at different points with callbacks.

Activities

  • A lecture and a lab

Module 4 - Deploy Agent Development Kit agents to Agent Engine

Topics

  • Deploying agent apps to Agent Engine and querying responses.

Objectives

  • Describe the benefits of deploying agents, especially Multi-Agent Systems, to Agent Engine over self-hosting, such as in Vertex AI online predictions.
  • Demonstrate deploying to Agent Engine.
  • Demonstrate querying a deployed agent app.

Activities

  • A lecture and a lab

Module 5 - Evaluate agent systems

Topics

  • Evaluate agents within the Agent Development Kit.

Objectives

  • Evaluate agents within the Agent Development Kit.
  • Use the web interface to view evaluations.

Activities

  • A lecture and a lab

Module 6 - Provide agents session memory and artifact storage

Topics

  • Provide agents session memory to iterate on a current state. Grant agent access to documents to enable them to craft and refine documents.

Objectives

  • Utilize sessions in an agent.
  • View and debug sessions in the Agent Framework web UI.
  • Utilize artifact storage.

Activities

  • A lecture and a lab