E-Books →Build Your First RAG Agent with ADK A Practical Guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Google Vertex AI

Whether you're an engineer, data scientist, or AI enthusiast, this hands-on guide walks you through building production-grade RAG agents using Google Vertex AI. Forget clunky pipelines and fragmented tools this book simplifies the complex, offering a clear, practical roadmap to building AI agents that retrieve knowledge and generate responses in real-time.
Learn how to set up your first agent, integrate custom tools, manage corpora, and design workflows that scale from simple document QA bots to domain-specific experts. Along the way, you'll master the ADK platform, tap into the power of Vertex AI, and understand key design principles that make agents more reliable, explainable, and secure.
By the end of this journey, you'll go from curious developer to confident builder equipped with the skills to create intelligent RAG agents ready for enterprise, research, or personal innovation.
Inside, you'll discover how to:Build and launch a fully functional RAG agent using ADK and Google Vertex AI from zero setup to interactive deployment.Integrate and chain powerful tools to enable multi-step reasoning, API calling, and document-based querying.Structure and secure your knowledge corpora with embeddings, chunking strategies, and vector search for optimal retrieval.Design dynamic prompts and memory flows that enhance agent reasoning and handle long conversations gracefully.Deploy and test your agent using both CLI and Web UI, ensuring smooth real-world performance and usability.Start building your next-gen AI assistant today!