migrating-google-adk-to-pydantic-ai

migrating-google-adk-to-pydantic-ai is a skill for Codex from pydantic/pydantic-ai. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,298 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A migration guide for moving Python applications from Google Agent Development Kit (ADK), a framework for building AI agents, to Pydantic AI, another Python agent framework. It traces a real request through the application so the migration preserves behavior callers rely on.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an application uses ADK agents, runners, sessions, tools, workflows, callbacks, memory, artifacts, or deployment features and needs a Pydantic AI implementation.
Why use it?
It helps avoid copying framework classes mechanically while losing sessions, memory, tools, events, or saved state. It focuses the migration on the application’s actual runtime path.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it when an application uses ADK agents, runners, sessions, tools, workflows, callbacks, memory, artifacts, or deployment features and needs a Pydantic AI implementation.

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npx agentmods add skills/pydantic/pydantic-ai/migrating-google-adk-to-pydantic-ai
About the project

Pydantic AI is a typed Python SDK for building AI agents that can use different language models and interfaces, including voice, image generation, and embeddings. Developers use it for applications ranging from structured data extraction to long-running multi-agent work. The catalogue entries provide workflows and configuration for its coding-agent and harness features.

pydantic/pydantic-ai · 20,645 stars · on GitHub · pydantic.dev

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add pydantic/pydantic-ai --skill migrating-google-adk-to-pydantic-ai
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,298 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00072 $0.01298
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00519
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00130

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b5e64220b51c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

migrating-google-adk-to-pydantic-ai scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

pydantic_ai_slim/pydantic_ai/.agents/skills/migrating-google-adk-to-pydantic-ai/SKILL.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Migrate Google ADK to Pydantic AI

Preserve caller-visible behavior, not ADK's class tree. Migrate the smallest complete request path and leave product infrastructure in the application.

Work from the running application

  1. Read repository instructions, dependencies, tests, and runtime entrypoints. Record the installed Google ADK, Pydantic AI, and optional pydantic-ai-harness versions.
  2. Trace one real request from Runner.run_async() or the deployed endpoint through the root agent, instructions, collaboration mode, model calls, tools, workflow nodes, callbacks/plugins, session service, emitted events, state/artifact deltas, and final response. Record only behavior that path uses.
  3. Separate the contracts before choosing targets:
    • Session.events used as model context;
    • session-, user-, app-, and invocation-scoped state;
    • searchable long-term memory;
    • workflow/node checkpoints and resume IDs;
    • versioned artifacts and external side effects.
  4. Classify the active slice:
    • Ordinary LlmAgent: normally one reusable Agent with typed dependencies, tools, and output.
    • ADK graph or dynamic workflow: keep simple deterministic control flow in plain async Python; use pydantic_graph when explicit typed nodes, branching, or graph inspection remain valuable.
    • Multi-agent delegation: inspect ADK's collaboration mode in Python 2.x; 1.x sub_agents use chat behavior. Use core multi-agent patterns for chat transfer semantics. Harness SubAgents can fit task or single_turn only when their isolated context, return, interaction, and concurrency behavior match.
    • Product runtime: retain auth, session/state stores, artifact stores, queues, transport, A2A endpoints, evaluation, observability, and deployment unless they are explicitly in scope.
  5. Add deterministic characterization tests, then migrate one vertical slice behind its existing caller boundary.
  6. Run the original tests and focused parity tests. Mark unexercised behavior unverified; similar names are not equivalence evidence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 52 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A b5e64220b51c

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migrating-google-adk-to-pydantic-ai is a skill published in the GitHub repository pydantic/pydantic-ai (20,645 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,298 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-16.