Inspiration
Building production-grade autonomous agent systems is notoriously difficult. Developers face friction across four key areas:
- Translating messy, real-world friction into structured multi-tool workflows.
- Managing cross-session state without leaking tokens or paying heavy compute bills.
- Implementing enterprise-grade security (Zero-Trust IAM, Model Armor prompt-injection defenses, OpenTelemetry distributed tracing).
- Assembling reproducible spin-up environments under hackathon time constraints.
We built AgentForge to eliminate this friction entirely. It acts as an autonomous co-pilot and live testbed built natively for Google Cloud’s agent ecosystem.
What it does
AgentForge combines interactive agent playgrounds with an end-to-end Solution Architect & Devpost submission synthesizer:
- Track 1 (The Taskmaster Engine): Intercepts raw asynchronous event signals (Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Monitoring alerts) and executes end-to-end multi-tool remediations without human prompting.
- Track 2 (The Collaborative Partner): Leverages a persistent Firestore Memory Bank and dynamic RAG to maintain multi-turn context, generate adaptive comprehension checkpoints, and mutate live documents in real-time.
- Track 3 (The Fortified Enterprise Fleet): Simulates GEAP (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform) mesh governance—incorporating Model Armor prompt-injection filtering, Zero-Trust IAM tokens, and OpenTelemetry trace trees.
- Cost & Credit Optimizer: Dynamically computes token inference overhead and enforces the "Flash First" design pattern to keep continuous autonomous runs well under the $150 Google Cloud credit budget.
How we built it
- Reasoning Engine: Powered by Gemini 3.7 Flash for sub-second tool routing, structured schema extraction, and autonomous agent orchestration.
- Agent Framework: Designed with Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Google GenAI SDK (
@google/genai). - Cloud Infrastructure: Architected for Google Cloud Run (scale-to-zero serverless container runtime), Google Cloud Pub/Sub (event ingestion), and Google Cloud Firestore (Memory Bank state & session store).
- Observability & Security: Employs Model Armor for PII redaction/prompt-injection scoring and Cloud Trace / OpenTelemetry for span latency breakdown.
Challenges we ran into
- Minimizing Autonomous Latency: Ensuring multi-step agent tool invocation chains completed in under 2 seconds without looping or hallucinating parameter schemas.
- Balancing Context vs. Token Budget: Architecting the memory bank to index high-signal cross-session facts without blowing up prompt token limits.
- Stateful Document Mutations: Implementing real-time synchronization between the agent's multi-turn conversational stream and the living workspace artifact.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Designed a decoupled, $0 idle cost architecture utilizing Google Cloud Run scale-to-zero.
- Built real-time interactive sandboxes covering all three official hackathon tracks with live telemetry.
- Automated the generation of complete, reproducible test suites and judging scripts conforming strictly to the 4-minute maximum pitch limit.
What we learned
- The Google ADK pattern combined with Gemini 3.7 Flash offers unprecedented speed for multi-turn autonomous loops compared to legacy monolithic orchestrators.
- Enforcing Model Armor at the API gateway layer provides deterministic guardrails against indirect prompt injection in autonomous pipelines.
What's next for AgentForge
- Adding native support for Google Gemma 2B edge agents on local worker nodes.
- Integrating Google Lyria and Veo APIs for autonomous multimodal asset generation during solution synthesis.
- Releasing the AgentForge ADK template directly to the open-source community.
Built With
- cloud-trace
- firestore
- gemini-3.7-flash
- google-adk
- google-cloud-run
- google-genai-sdk
- opentelemetry
- pub/sub
- react
- tailwind-css
- typescript
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