[Advent of Agents] Day 7: ADK Agent Skill Design Patterns

[abraha...@google.com]

Hi everyone,

Day 7 of Google's Advent of Agents — Season 2 is now live!

Mastering ADK requires more than just knowing the file format—it's about how you strategically structure agent logic. Today we explore five distinct design patterns to turn your SKILL.md into a powerful framework for domain expertise and complex workflows.

Today's Highlights:

• Discover five core patterns: Tool Wrapper, Generator, Reviewer, Inversion, and Pipeline.
• Learn how to strategically use the references/ and assets/ directories to separate expertise from templates.
• Understand how to compose patterns to build sophisticated, multi-step agent pipelines with gate conditions.

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The Advent of Agents Team