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Gemini API Agents Overview

An introduction to building autonomous agents using the Gemini API, covering the conceptual framework of how agents use tools, reasoning, and function calling to complete complex tasks.

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Gemini API Agents Overview

An introduction to building autonomous agents using the Gemini API, covering the conceptual framework of how agents use tools, reasoning, and function calling to complete complex tasks.

When To Use

Use when designing the architecture for an autonomous agent that requires tool use, reasoning, or multi-step task execution via the Gemini API.

Reference Files

File	Contains	Use For
`SKILL.md`	Entry point: scope, routing table, and workflow.	Start here.
`docs/gemini-api-agents-overview-workflow-guide.md`	An overview of Gemini API agents, including their definition, core components like reasoning and tools, and available frameworks for building them.	Questions about an overview of Gemini API agents, including their definition, core components like reasoning and tools, and available...

What This Skill Covers

Agents are systems that leverage Gemini models, a set of tools, and reasoning capabilities to perform complex, multi-step tasks and achieve specific goals. U...
Main sections: Available Agents, Building agents, Agent frameworks.

Workflow

Open the most relevant file under docs/ for the exact documented workflow and wording.
Open schemas/ files for exact structured contracts.
Open examples/ files for concrete requests, commands, snippets, and manifests.
Do not add behavior or configuration that is not present in the attached source files.

Canonical source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/agents