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"Greetings, World!": Our first agent

This exercise is part of the course

Building AI Agents with Google ADK

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Exercise instructions

In Google ADK, an LlmAgent wraps a language model together with the rules that define its personality and behavior. Let’s spin up your first one:

  • Assign the name "WelcomeAgent" to your agent.
  • Instruct the agent to always greet the user politely.
  • Set the agent to Use the model specified in the AGENT_MODEL variable.


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