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Google Releases Agents CLI for Building AI Agents With Claude Code

June 29, 2026 at 15:15 EDT

AI Agents
Software Dev & Coding
Open Source

On April 22, 2026, Google released the open-source "Agents CLI" for Google Cloud's Agent Platform. It injects "skills" into coding agents such as Claude Code and Gemini CLI, letting developers build, test, deploy and register AI agents end-to-end through natural-language instructions.

April 22, 2026 · Google Cloud

Agents CLI: from a chat prompt to a production AI agent in one flow

Google Cloud's agents-cli lets coding agents like Claude Code and Gemini CLI build, evaluate, deploy, and register AI agents through natural language — closing the gap between local prototype and cloud production.

injectable skills: workflow, adk-code, scaffold, eval, deploy, publish, observability

v0.6.1

latest release (June 28, 2026), Preview / Pre-GA, provided "as is"

0 cloud

local dev needs only an AI Studio key; cloud only for deploy

Reported CI/CD-replacement case

Offloading the "dirty work" — cloud setup, tests, evaluation, deployment — to agents lifted success rate.

62%

before

→

89%

after

From prompt to production — one assembly line

Scaffold

ADK agent, model-agnostic via LiteLLM

→

Evaluate

self-evals & tests

→

Deploy

Agent Runtime, Cloud Run, GKE

→

Gemini Enterprise + observability

Why it's praised

Offloads the "dirty work" — cloud setup, tests, evaluation, deployment. Moves coding agents from demo-making to real production operation, with evaluation and observability built in.

The caution flags

Security concerns over entrusting production operations to agents; need for guardrails and auditing. Preview-stage limits remain, plus setup steps like confirming /skills and gcloud / Gemini API auth.

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