🧭 Map the cosmos
Foundations
Orientation
The mind-shift, what an agent really is, and the brain — then clone, run, and chat with your first live agent.
Prereq
No prerequisites
Outcome
🤖 A working agent on your phone
Google ADK · Gemini · TypeScript
Build your AI teammate.From a function call to global autonomy.
A five-level workshop teaching autonomous AI agents on Google ADK + Gemini. From console.log to a hardened, globally-reachable agent running on Google Cloud — yours to chat with from anywhere.
Pick your face
Painterly portraits — each builder gets one. You add your own name.
Five levels. Production-ready by the end.
Each level adds a pillar. By Level 5 your agent runs 24/7 on Google Cloud — secured against real attacks, and yours to keep.
⚡ Ignite the engine
Build the Brain
Foundations
Code the agent loop, three core tools, personality-on-disk, and sessions — by hand.
Prereq
L1 complete · Node.js basics
Outcome
🛠️ You wired every line yourself
🌱 Grow its mind
Memory & Skills
Cognition
Context bootstrap, memory bank, compaction, RAG, and runtime skills from markdown.
Prereq
L2 complete
Outcome
🧠 Your agent remembers you
🛰️ Launch the fleet
The Agent Army
Autonomy
Sub-agents with forked context, the recovery pyramid, cron, and a live dashboard.
Prereq
L3 complete
Outcome
👥 A team that never crashes
🚀 Take it global — locked down
Ship & Secure
Production
Cloud Run, Firestore, Secret Manager, webhooks — plus prompt-injection defenses, OIDC, and PII redaction.
Prereq
L4 complete · Google Cloud account
Outcome
🌍 24/7 in the cloud, secured & yours
What you'll build
By Level 5 your agent has these capabilities — every one a tool the workshop teaches you to wire, operate, and harden.
Telegram Agent
Chat with your agent from your phone, 24/7.
"Summarise my day."
Web Search
Live grounding via Gemini Search.
"What happened in tech today?"
Create Content
PDFs, slide decks, reports — generated on demand.
"Make a 5-slide deck on Google ADK."
Scheduled Tasks
Cron-driven work the agent runs without you.
"Every weekday at 9am, brief me on Flutter news."
Persistent Memory
Survives reboots and grows over time.
"Remember I prefer SQLite for v1 projects."
Sub-Agents
Delegates specialised work to focused sub-agents.
"Research Vertex Vector Search and save findings."
Who is this for?
Designed for developers, students, instructors, and teams who want real agent architecture — not just prompt engineering.
TypeScript / Node Developers
You know async/await — now learn agent loops. Move from API calls to autonomous agents.
CS Students & Bootcamp Grads
Understand AI from first principles. Real agent architecture, not just prompt engineering.
Community Leads & Instructors
Want to teach AI agents at your local GDG, university, or meetup. Train-the-trainer ready.
Teams Exploring AI Agents
Evaluate if autonomous agents fit your product. Build a proof-of-concept in one day.
Google Technologies
Production-grade Google Cloud services. Every layer is something the workshop teaches you to operate. AdkClaw is community-built and not officially affiliated with Google.
Gemini 3
L1–L5
The brain — Pro for reasoning, Flash for speed.
Google ADK
L1–L5
Agent Development Kit — function calling, callbacks, tools.
Vertex AI
L3–L5
Embeddings, vector search, grounding, Imagen.
Cloud Run
L5
Serverless container. Scale-to-zero. HTTPS in seconds.
Firestore
L5
Sessions, messages, cron history. Multi-region native.
Firebase
L5
Auth, Hosting, Cloud Messaging — when you outgrow Cloud Run alone.
Cloud Build
L5
CI/CD. Trigger on push, deploy to Cloud Run.
Secret Manager
L5
API keys, HMAC secrets — never in env files in prod.
Cloud Scheduler
L4–L5
Heartbeat cron. Wakes the agent on a schedule.
About AdkClaw
An open-source workshop by Google Developer Expert Ahmed Abu Eldahab — built to teach students how to design and ship autonomous AI agents the right way, from first principles to production on Google Cloud.
Ready to build?
Bring your own Gemini key + Telegram bot + Google Cloud project. We never see your secrets. Your agent runs on your infrastructure — and keeps running after the workshop ends.