Google Open Source

Open source is free as in puppies, not free as in beer. 🐶📦 While prior research focuses on upstream maintenance, @sophia_iv studied the effort required to USE and update open source packages at Google. 👇 Link in first reply

RT @danicat83: If AI brings us the promise of the future, why are we still stuck in the past with chatbots in Markdown? Most AI applications today still work like a terminal from decades ago: you type a prompt, the agent runs a tool, and it dumps a wall of text back at you. Modern agentic interfaces should not only use richer UI elements, they should also adapt to what the user needs instead of forcing everything through a static, one-size-fits-all screen. That changes how we think about frontend development. Instead of designing hardcoded application screens upfront, we design a shared catalog of UI building blocks and let the agent assemble the interface on demand. Google's open Agent to User Interface (A2UI) protocol was built for this. Your frontend keeps full control over styling and native components, while the agent decides what to display based on context across three primitives: • Catalog: The menu of UI components (charts, gauges, tables, 3D views, buttons) shared between the backend agent and the frontend client. • Surfaces: The live UI canvas that updates in real time as the agent streams structured JSON messages. • Actions: Two-way events that turn a click on a table row, graph node, or button directly into the next turn of the conversation without typing a follow-up prompt. In my latest article, I used A2UI and Genkit to give my diagnostic agent, AIDA, the modern glowup she deserves, with dynamic UI elements rendered on-demand and human in the loop tool approvals for the most critical operations. Read the full article on Companion repository:

RT @apievangelist: What 467 Conformant A2A Agent Cards Are Actually Offering 467 providers serve a conformant A2A agent card. Nearly half came from a docs platform default with one skill: read our docs. Most of the rest are agent-native companies selling by the call.

RT @rseroter: No more frameworks on top of languages? Use AI to generate whatever code an app needs to reach a goal? In some cases, sure. But I like using certain frameworks that do smart things for me. @GenkitFramework is definitely that for agentic @golang apps.

RT @GenkitFramework: Genkit Dart 1.0.1 is here! 🚀 What's new: • Primitive input schemas for tools across all providers • genkit_firebase_ai agentPlatform & custom httpClient • Session state & interrupt resume fixes Thanks to garvitkaushik-123! 🎉 👇

RT @GenkitFramework: Check out the full release notes and migration details:

Testing and serving Agent2Agent (A2A) v1.0 agents from the terminal just got simpler. 🛠️ @meteatamel walks through the official `a2a` CLI: inspecting capability cards, streaming JSONL tasks, and `--echo`/`--exec` servers. 👇 Link in first reply

@meteatamel Read the full guide and explore the A2A v1.0 CLI samples:

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Heading to #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon NA? Make sure to stop by the Community Hub! 🤝✨ A welcoming space to connect with peers, join interactive workshops, and celebrate community in cloud native. Details 👇

Explore everything happening at the Community Hub, including peer group mentoring, workshops, and networking with @CloudNativeFdn and @linuxfoundation:

This Week in Open Source #20 is here! 🌐 🏛️ OSI at UNGA81 & “AI-DDoS” maintainer research (-18.18% merge rate) 🔍 RedMonk’s 24K commit audit & OSS-Fuzz-inspired security 🎙️ Gemma 4 4B DiarizationLM & ESP32 voice AI 👇 Link in first reply

Read all 9 highlights (including google/skill-reach, AI copyright & AT Protocol PDS metrics) + the Oct–Dec 2026 event calendar (@AgenticAIFdn AGNTCon + MCPCon, @github Universe & @CloudNativeFdn KubeCon NA): #OpenSource #FOSS

⏰ Welcome to Day 2 of #AGNTCon + #MCPCon! Another full day of AI agents, open protocols, and production tooling. Catch today’s keynotes, breakout sessions, and Solutions Showcase! Schedule & info ⬇️

RT @kweinmeister: Instead of going token by token, DiffusionGemma refines a 256-token block at once. I tested it and Gemma 4 on 10 tasks: • Did better on copy editing & upfront counts • Missed on valid JSON & multi-step reasoning • Slower on my Mac, much faster on a GPU

AI coding speed without structured design leads to auto-scaled mistakes. Introducing the open source Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin—co-design specs & validate architecture with stateless AI reviewers. 👇 Link in first reply

Read the announcement on the Google Open Source Blog and explore the Apache 2.0 Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin repository on GitHub:

RT @GatiVarshney: I did Google Summer of Code 2026 with The Linux Foundation 🐧 The hardest part wasn't the code. It was finding an org that replies to newcomers. Let's #connect if you're into: 🌱 Open Source ☀️ GSoC 2027 🤖 AI Agents & MCP 🛠️ Dev Tools GSoC 2027 aspirant? Ask me anything 👇

#AGNTCon + #MCPCon North America kicks off today! 🎉 Stop by booth D5 to chat with our team about open source and AI agents. Catch Rao Surapaneni's keynote tomorrow. Details below 👇

Catch Rao Surapaneni's keynote tomorrow, Oct 23 at 10 AM PT: