google-agents-cli-onboarding

google-agents-cli-onboarding is the entrypoint skill for agents-cli, Google's toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform using the Agent Development Kit (ADK). It solves the 'where do I start' problem by handling one-time setup and routing the user to the correct specialized skill for their current phase of the agent development lifecycle. As a catalogue/onboarding entry, its own depth is intentionally thin — it points to seven downstream specialized skills and to the upstream google/agents-cli repository for the real implementation detail.

The skill documents the one-time setup commands (uvx google-agents-cli setup, or npx skills add google/agents-cli) that install the CLI and enable the specialized skills, then maps the eight-phase lifecycle — understand, study, scaffold, build, evaluate, deploy, publish, observe — to the skill that handles each (workflow, scaffold, adk-code, eval, deploy, publish, observability). It lists the primary CLI commands (setup, scaffold, eval run, deploy, publish gemini-enterprise) and a recommended next-step sequence: run setup, verify with agents-cli info, then define the agent spec in .agents-cli-spec.md before writing code. It links to the CLI documentation and issue tracker.

It targets developers who want to create, run, debug, test, evaluate, deploy, publish, or monitor agents with ADK on Google Cloud (Agent Runtime/Vertex AI, Cloud Run, or GKE) and need orientation before diving into the specialized workflows.