Take a Claude Agent SDK agent from install to deploy with Agents CLI

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Practical guide for deploying Claude Agent SDK agents to Cloud Run, directly matches AI agent orchestration and cloud infrastructure interests.

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Why It Matters

For platform engineers and agent builders, this eliminates the manual wiring of stateful sessions, observability, and CI-gated evals that typically delay production deployments of Claude agents, letting you focus on agent logic rather than infrastructure glue.

Key Takeaways

Adopt the Agents CLI Claude extension to get production-ready session management, tracing, and eval pipelines for your Claude SDK agents with zero custom infrastructure code.

Take a Claude Agent SDK agent from install to deploy with Agents CLI

Summary

Google's Agents CLI v1.12.0+ now provides a first-party extension for Claude Agent SDK agents, wrapping them with the same create, run, eval, and deploy commands previously exclusive to ADK agents. The extension handles session persistence via Cloud SQL, tracing, metrics, and eval grading using the same format as ADK, so teams skip building operational infrastructure. A single `uvx google-agents-cli setup` command scaffolds a project targeting Cloud Run, with a plain Python agent file using `ClaudeAgentOptions` and MCP servers, and eval scores 5/5 on default test cases.

Author

Elia Secchi