google--adk-python/contributing/samples/managed_agent/basic/README.md

Managed Agent

For setup, authentication, backends, and background on ManagedAgent, see the ManagedAgent guide.

Overview

This sample runs a ManagedAgent configured with the built-in google_search tool. Given an open-ended request, the server-side harness autonomously issues many searches and synthesizes the result in a single turn.

Sample Inputs

• Compare the current flagship smartphones from Apple, Samsung, and Google. For each, find its launch price, display size, and main rear camera resolution, then recommend the best value for someone who mostly takes photos.

  The showcase input. A single question the harness answers by fanning out into a dozen-odd searches. It does broad discovery first, then targeted per-model spec and price lookups, self-correcting when it hits a stale model, before composing a comparison table and a reasoned recommendation.

• Which of those would you pick for shooting video instead?

  A follow-up turn that reuses the recovered remote sandbox and the previous interaction, continuing the same research thread. This demonstrates multi-turn chaining.

Graph

graph LR
    User -->|message| ManagedAgent
    ManagedAgent -->|interactions.create| ManagedAgentsAPI
    ManagedAgentsAPI -->|server-side research loop: google_search ×N| ManagedAgentsAPI
    ManagedAgentsAPI -->|streamed events| ManagedAgent
    ManagedAgent -->|answer| User

How To

• Create the agent: instantiate ManagedAgent with an agent_id, an environment spec, and a list of server-side tools. No model is set; the model is part of the managed agent on the server.
• Provision a sandbox: environment={'type': 'remote'} requests a fresh remote sandbox. The resulting environment id is stored on emitted events, so subsequent turns automatically recover and reuse it.
• Multi-turn chaining: the agent recovers the previous_interaction_id from the session events, so follow-up turns continue the same interaction without any extra wiring.
• Drive it: a ManagedAgent is a BaseAgent, so a standard Runner runs it just like any other agent.