Module 1: Orientation

• What Agent Platform is and where it came from
• The four pillars and how this course is structured
• What an agent actually is: tools, reasoning loop, state
• Setting up your GCP environment

Module 2: Build

• ADK fundamentals, scaffold, adk web
• Agent Garden samples
• Tools (built-in toolsets, custom tools)
• Hand-tracing the reasoning loop
• Callbacks
• MCP Servers (BigQuery MCP)
• RAG on Agent Platform
• Agent Studio

Module 3: Scale

• Deployments to Agent Runtime
• Sessions
• Memory Bank

Module 4: Govern

• Agent Registry
• Agent Identity (SPIFFE)
• Policies, Gateway, and Model Armor

Module 5: Optimize

• Observability
• Evaluation (adk eval)
• Where to go from here