From Models to Agents: Shipping Enterprise AI Faster with Google’s MCP Toolbox & Agent Development Kit
This article is an expanded write-up of the talk I recently delivered as a Google Developer Expert during a talk in Denver. The full slide deck is embedded below for easy reference. Why another “agent framework”? Large-language models (LLMs) are superb at generating prose, but production-grade systems need agents that can reason, plan, call tools, and respect enterprise guard-rails. Traditionally, that means: Hand-rolling connectors to databases & APIs Adding authentication, rate-limits, and connection pools Patching in tracing & metrics later Hoping your YAML jungle survives the next refactor Google’s new duo— MCP Toolbox and the Agent Development Kit (ADK) —eliminates that toil so you can treat agent development like ordinary software engineering. MCP Toolbox in one minute ⏳ What Why it matters Open-source MCP server Implements the emerging Model Context Protocol ; any compliant age...