Head to head · Agent frameworks · October 2026 research run
AgentOS vs Agent Development Kit (ADK)
AgentOS and Agent Development Kit (ADK) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 75.3 (BB) and 74.7 (BB). Agent Development Kit (ADK) leads on security & auth. Both do agent frameworks.
Which one, for what
AgentOS BB
Good for TypeScript teams that want long-term memory, personas, voice and channel adapters and multi-agent teams in one package, and that will pin versions.
Ahead on
- Schema & documentation, 92 against 87
Also in its favour
- Free to start without a card
Watch for
Version 0.12.12, with 27 releases on 7 and 8 October 2026 and breaking minors 0.11.0 and 0.12.0 on the same day
Agent Development Kit (ADK) BB
Good for Teams on Google Cloud or working outside Python, and for anyone who wants approval, guardrail callbacks and evaluation in one framework.
Ahead on
- Security & auth, 92 against 81
Also in its favour
- No key needed to call it
Watch for
Two critical CVEs in 2026, one of them in tool confirmation itself
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | AgentOS | Agent Development Kit (ADK) | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 77 | 80 | Agent Development Kit (ADK) +3 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 92 | 87 | AgentOS +5 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 74 | 70 | AgentOS +4 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 81 | 92 | Agent Development Kit (ADK) +11 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 60 | 60 | even |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 87 | 87 | even |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 64 | 68 | Agent Development Kit (ADK) +4 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -4 | |
| Total | 75.3 · BB | 74.7 · BB |
Facts side by side
| Fact | AgentOS | Agent Development Kit (ADK) |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Agent framework | Agent framework |
| Vendor | Framers Lab, Inc. | |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-25 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-11-06 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-11-06 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |
| Popularity | 677 stars, 5.3k npm/wk | 22k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (8) |
Verdicts
AgentOS
A TypeScript agent framework with typed tools, six multi-agent strategies, checkpointed graphs, approval gates and no telemetry of its own. It is at 0.12.12 after 98 releases in 90 days, two of them breaking on 7 October 2026. No MCP client was found in the package, and code tools an agent writes run in an in-process node:vm context.
Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Python, TypeScript, Go, Java and Kotlin. Two critical CVEs in 2026, one of them in tool confirmation itself.
Before you call either
AgentOS
- Pin an exact version of @framers/agentos. Feature commits ship as patch releases while it is 0.x, and breaking changes ship as minors
- Leave emergentConfig.allowSandboxTools off unless forged code runs through an executor that isolates. The default executor shares the host process
- Pass your own ICheckpointStore to compile() for runs that must survive a restart. The default store is in memory
- Set hitl.approvals.beforeTool for tools that write, and choose a handler. No approval gate is on by default
- Use Node 22 or newer, and set a provider key such as OPENAI_API_KEY or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY. The provider is detected from the environment
Agent Development Kit (ADK)
- Upgrade to 2.5.0 or later before relying on tool confirmation
- Always pass tool_filter to McpToolset
- Pin a 2.x minor and read the changelog's breaking section before each bump
- Install the bigquery-analytics extra if you use pyarrow, since 2.7.0
- Keep ADK Web off public interfaces, or run 1.28.1 or later at the least
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, AgentOS or Agent Development Kit (ADK)?
AgentOS and Agent Development Kit (ADK) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 75.3 (BB) and 74.7 (BB). Agent Development Kit (ADK) leads on security & auth.
Are AgentOS and Agent Development Kit (ADK) open source?
Yes. AgentOS is open source (Apache-2.0). Agent Development Kit (ADK) is open source (Apache-2.0).
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