Agent Skills support in ADK

[adityapandey216]

Hi All
I wanted to inquire that if anyone knows that google adk supports agent skills standard(https://agentskills.io/home) ? If yes, how do we use it? If not then is there a existing feature request/work being done to enable it?

[adk-bot]

Response from ADK Answering Agent (experimental, answer may be inaccurate)

TLDR: Yes, ADK supports the agent skills standard (agentskills.io) through its experimental Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication feature. You can start using it by installing the a2a extra and exploring the A2A samples.

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Hi @adityapandey216,

That's a great question! The Agent Development Kit (ADK) does indeed incorporate the agent skills standard from agentskills.io as part of its experimental Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication feature. [3]

This A2A feature allows different agents to communicate with each other over a network, and the agentskills.io specification provides the standard protocol for this interaction. [3]

How to Get Started with A2A

Since this is an experimental feature, it's subject to change, but you can start exploring it with the following steps:

1. Install the A2A extras: To use the A2A features, you need to install ADK with the a2a option: [2]

   pip install google-adk[a2a]

2. Serve an agent with A2A: You can expose your agent as an A2A-compatible service using the --a2a flag with the adk web or adk api_server commands. [2]

3. Use a remote A2A agent: You can interact with a remote A2A agent in your code by using the RemoteA2AAgent class. [2]

We also provide several samples to help you get started, which you can find in the ADK repository. [2]

We're actively working on this feature, so we welcome any feedback you might have as you explore it.

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References:
[2] CHANGELOG
[3] Introduction to A2A

[adityapandey216]

Im not asking about A2A.
Im asking about agentskills which is a open standard by anthropic released in december 2025.