Adk Sample Creator

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user wants to add a sample
• Example demonstrating a feature
• Agent pattern (dynamic nodes
• A standalone tool-using agent)

Example prompts

• “s README brought up to the standard structure. Don”
• “Use the adk-sample-creator skill to create a new sample agent in the ADK Python repository — the sample directory, its agent.py, and its README.md —…”
• “/adk-sample-creator”

Requirements

• Python 3

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Pick the category directory
2. 2Write agent.py
3. 3Write README.md

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 666c26d. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are python and bash).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Adk Sample Creator loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 171 tokens; SKILL.md has 462 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~171

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.3k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~1.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from google/adk-python at commit 666c26d, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© google). 462 words, ~1,323 tokens.

name

adk-sample-creator

description

Creates a new sample agent in the ADK Python repository — the sample directory, its `agent.py`, and its `README.md` — following the conventions the existing samples already use. Use when the user wants to add a sample or example demonstrating a feature or agent pattern (dynamic nodes, fan-out/fan-in, a standalone tool-using agent), asks where a new sample belongs under `contributing/samples/`, or wants an existing sample's README brought up to the standard structure. Don't use for building a real working agent for the user's own project (use `adk-agent-builder`), or for checking whether the Python blocks in a Markdown file run (use `adk-verify-snippets`).

ls contributing/samples/

from google.adk import Agent
from google.adk import Context
from google.adk import Event
from google.adk import Workflow
from google.adk.workflow import JoinNode
from google.adk.workflow import node

my_agent = Agent(name="my_agent", instruction="...")


@node()
async def my_node(node_input: str) -> str:
  return "result"


root_agent = Workflow(
    name="root_agent",
    edges=[("START", my_node)],
)

from google.adk import Agent
from google.adk.tools import google_search

root_agent = Agent(
    name="standalone_assistant",
    instruction="You are a helpful assistant.",
    description="An assistant that can help with queries.",
    tools=[google_search],
)

© google, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in .agents/skills/adk-sample-creator of google/adk-python.

• SKILL.md
• references/readme-template.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 666c26d