GOOGLE ENGINEERS SHOWED HOW TO BUILD AGENTS
or at least how most of us do it
they run multi-agent systems at scale, the demo i shipped wasn't production
if it talks to you twice and doesn't remember the first chat, it's a demo
their workshop shows the real stack
agents that talk to other agents
agents that keep state between runs
agents that deploy on their own endpoints
02:18 - agent card: name, what it's good at, who to call
14:50 - MCP vs A2A, which one you actually want
32:01 - the orchestrator picks the right agent and delegates
53:55 - why your agent needs state and memory at all
1:11:56 - every run, from lifecycle to long-term memory
most people ship one agent and call it a day
this stack makes a fleet of them work
save this before your agent forgets your chat
GOOGLE ENGINEERS SHOWED HOW TO BUILD AGENTS
or at least how most of us do it
they run multi-agent systems at scale, the demo i shipped wasn't production
if it talks to you twice and doesn't remember the first chat, it's a demo
their workshop shows the real stack
agents that talk to other agents
agents that keep state between runs
agents that deploy on their own endpoints
02:18 - agent card: name, what it's good at, who to call
14:50 - MCP vs A2A, which one you actually want
32:01 - the orchestrator picks the right agent and delegates
53:55 - why your agent needs state and memory at all
1:11:56 - every run, from lifecycle to long-term memory
most people ship one agent and call it a day
this stack makes a fleet of them work
save this before your agent forgets your chat
GRAPH ENGINEERING ISN'T BEHIND A PAYWALL
don't buy an agent course before you watch this
google streamed a 1.5 hour hands-on workshop on graph rag. free.
the graph isn't the pretty diagram on your screen
it's the map your agent crawls before it answers
highlights from across the video:
16:39 - graph RAG searches the graph, not a flat pile of files
45:50 - hybrid search, text and graph inside one database
58:58 - parallel vs loop vs sequential agents, one framework
1:15:22 - upload an image, agent writes its relationships and insights into the graph
1:16:20 - in-memory forgets everything on restart, long-term memory fixes it
most people stop at a single agent
single agents lean, graphs do the routing, memory makes it last
same 90-minute workshop gives you all three
save this before you build your next agent as a one-off
GRAPH ENGINEERING ISN'T BEHIND A PAYWALL
don't buy an agent course before you watch this
google streamed a 1.5 hour hands-on workshop on graph rag. free.
the graph isn't the pretty diagram on your screen
it's the map your agent crawls before it answers
highlights from across the video:
16:39 - graph RAG searches the graph, not a flat pile of files
45:50 - hybrid search, text and graph inside one database
58:58 - parallel vs loop vs sequential agents, one framework
1:15:22 - upload an image, agent writes its relationships and insights into the graph
1:16:20 - in-memory forgets everything on restart, long-term memory fixes it
most people stop at a single agent
single agents lean, graphs do the routing, memory makes it last
same 90-minute workshop gives you all three
save this before you build your next agent as a one-off
MEMORY ISN'T A FEATURE. IT'S THE CONTEXT YOU KEEP
google's multimodal agents workshop builds the same character twice
and it fails the way everyone first tries it
31:19 - separate API calls = lack of character consistency
31:35 - create a singular chat session, pass multiple prompts
31:41 - the model has shared context and memory of what it generated
32:08 - details already embedded in the model's memory
call the model fresh every time and you get a stranger
keep one session and it remembers who it was
new context every question = answers reset
persistent context = it compounds
your graph won't save you if you burn the context every turn
save this before you rebuild your agent with zero memory
MEMORY ISN'T A FEATURE. IT'S THE CONTEXT YOU KEEP
google's multimodal agents workshop builds the same character twice
and it fails the way everyone first tries it
31:19 - separate API calls = lack of character consistency
31:35 - create a singular chat session, pass multiple prompts
31:41 - the model has shared context and memory of what it generated
32:08 - details already embedded in the model's memory
call the model fresh every time and you get a stranger
keep one session and it remembers who it was
new context every question = answers reset
persistent context = it compounds
your graph won't save you if you burn the context every turn
save this before you rebuild your agent with zero memory
GOOGLE ENGINEERS SAID YOUR AGENT IS JUST A BRAIN
their workshop builds a multi-agent system
starts with why agents exist at all
11:57 - an agent connects to the external world, the model is just the brain
12:35 - models have limits, no real-world data
12:49 - it can't answer the exchange rate, it uses a tool
tools are how a brain touches reality
then they stack agents in layers
03:57 - this is a tooling layer
04:02 - the second layer is domain workflow
04:29 - at the very top we have this orchestrator agent, the root agent
bottom = tools. middle = specialists. top = one root agent
a brain with no tools answers nothing
a brain with every tool breaks everything
save this before you build a prompt-only agent
LANGCHAIN'S CEO ADMITTED YOUR AGENT HAS NO MEMORY
Harrison Chase on long-horizon agents: bigger context windows, still not infinite, so you compact
06:05 - context windows are larger but still not infinite, you need to compact
10:41 - compaction becomes a thing as you fill up the context window
compaction is not memory
it's forgetting in a neat summary. agent still can't recall last week
that's why your agent drops constraints mid-task
you gave it a summarizer, not a memory system
context engineering shrinks the window, memory engineering keeps the agent consistent
most builders only build the first one
GOOGLE ENGINEERS SAID YOUR AGENT IS JUST A BRAIN
their workshop builds a multi-agent system
starts with why agents exist at all
11:57 - an agent connects to the external world, the model is just the brain
12:35 - models have limits, no real-world data
12:49 - it can't answer the exchange rate, it uses a tool
tools are how a brain touches reality
then they stack agents in layers
03:57 - this is a tooling layer
04:02 - the second layer is domain workflow
04:29 - at the very top we have this orchestrator agent, the root agent
bottom = tools. middle = specialists. top = one root agent
a brain with no tools answers nothing
a brain with every tool breaks everything
save this before you build a prompt-only agent
VECTOR SEARCH FINDS SIMILAR. GRAPH SEARCH FINDS CONNECTED
that's the whole difference and most builders ship the wrong one
40:08 - this is actually the magic of graph search
40:15 - how is a graph rag different from traditional rag
40:31 - normal rag is retrieval, retrieval augmented generation
traditional rag embeds notes and asks "which one is closest"
graph rag keeps relationships and asks "what is this linked to"
one answers with a guess
the other answers with a path
your second brain is slow because you vectorized notes that were never meant to be similar
relationships are real. embeddings are vibes
save this before you embed another markdown file
VECTOR SEARCH FINDS SIMILAR. GRAPH SEARCH FINDS CONNECTED
that's the whole difference and most builders ship the wrong one
40:08 - this is actually the magic of graph search
40:15 - how is a graph rag different from traditional rag
40:31 - normal rag is retrieval, retrieval augmented generation
traditional rag embeds notes and asks "which one is closest"
graph rag keeps relationships and asks "what is this linked to"
one answers with a guess
the other answers with a path
your second brain is slow because you vectorized notes that were never meant to be similar
relationships are real. embeddings are vibes
save this before you embed another markdown file