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adk-go

An open-source, code-first Go toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control.

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0Explicit recommenders
9KGitHub stars
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What it is

An open-source, code-first Go toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-11-09 22:23:46 UTC to 2026-07-30 15:01:10 UTC.

0123452025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 commentsNov 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 2026

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What Hacker News says

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ADK seems like a better thought through SDK family, I use Go, Py is most mature, also TS and Java. The docs still need a lot of work to cover all the languages, it's pretty hit or miss right now, but one can also have a coding agent look at the source and an example for another language. Notably to your complaint, I have a coding agent that if the client drops, the llm/agent keeps working in the background. This requires it being set up as a server, which implies tool calls happen there instead of where the client is. I used Dagger as the "sandbox" more for easy time traveling / forking than being a sandbox. The well designed interfaces that allow custom implementations are what hooked me on ADK. https://adk.dev/get-started/about/ | https://github.com/google/adk-go
In Go LLM SDK for streaming, tool-calling AI backends (plus frontend React lib)
Had my first encounter with this on GitHub this week. Saw an initial PR come in, left some comments, more commits came in, tried it out, looked deeper at the code and realized it was garbage. Asked how it was tested, got classic ai response, followed up with a question about how / why, thinking step leaked as a comment Wasted my time, the account is running around doing this with dozens of rejected PRs across many varied projects. If you're curious: https://github.com/google/adk-go/pull/306
In 'Is AI creating a new code review bottleneck for senior engineers?'
w.r.t. Go, it's probably not that big a lift. I was looking at that yesterday, made a small change to lift the Gorm stuff a bit so the DB conn can be shared between the services I thought the same thing about the artifact service, which could have a nice local FS option. I'm pretty new to ADK, so we'll see how long the honeymoon phase lasts. Generally very optimistic that I found a solid foundation and framework edit: opened an issue to track it https://github.com/google/adk-go/issues/339
In Agent design is still hard

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