Building Agentic Workflows: A 3-Part Series from Aryan Irani on ADK, Vertex AI, and Google Apps Script Tags: ADK, Vertex AI, Apps Script, Gemini, AI, Agents
Thanks to Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Vertex AI’s Agent Engine, that’s no longer just an idea. These frameworks let you build intelligent agents, deploy them at scale, and integrate them seamlessly into your Google Workspace tools - enabling a new era of agentic productivity.
In this three-part tutorial series, we’ll explore exactly how to do that.
The ability to build and integrate custom AI agents directly into Google Workspace is rapidly moving from a far-off idea to a practical reality. For developers looking for a clear, end-to-end example, Google Developer Expert Aryan Irani has published an excellent three-part tutorial series.
This comprehensive guide, which includes video tutorials for each part, offers a complete end-to-end journey for building agentic workflows. It starts by building a local ‘AI Auditor’ agent with the new Agent Development Kit (ADK)—programming it to verify claims with the Google Search tool. The series then guides developers through the entire cloud deployment process to Vertex AI Agent Engine, covering project setup and permissions. Finally, it ties everything together with Google Apps Script, providing the complete code (using UrlFetchApp and the OAuth2 for Apps Script library) to integrate the agent as a powerful, fact-checking tool inside Google Docs.
Why This Series Matters
This series is a fantastic, practical guide for any Google Workspace developer looking to bridge the gap between classic Apps Script solutions and Google’s powerful new generative AI tools. It provides a complete, end-to-end blueprint for building truly ‘agentic’ workflows inside the tools your organisation already uses.
A big thank you to Aryan Irani for creating and sharing this detailed resource with the developer community!
