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Jul 26

Building AI Agents with the Python Agent Development Kit (ADK) — 2026 Edition (v2)

Summary of 2026 Updates (v2 — Python ADK 2.0 Migration) This updated edition incorporates...

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Jul 26

Building AI Agents with the GO Agent Development Kit (ADK) — 2026 Edition (v2)

Summary of 2026 Updates (v2 — Go ADK 2.0 Migration) This updated edition incorporates...

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Jul 25

Self-Hosted Gemma 4 on TPU v6e: Deployment & SRE with Antigravity

From quota-sweeping to self-hosted SRE diagnostics: how the Antigravity TPU skill automates Gemma 4 serving on flex-start v6e chips.

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Jul 24

Teaching Google Antigravity to Paint: A Stateful Image-Editing Skill Built on Gemini's Interactions API and MCP

How nb2lite-skill-agy packages Google's gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image as an Antigravity skill + MCP server — with multi-turn stateful edits, a simple install guide, and a dogfooded cover image.

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Jul 24

Teaching Antigravity to Direct: A Stateful Video-Editing Skill Built on Gemini's Interactions API and MCP

How omni-skill-agy packages Google's gemini-omni-flash-preview as an Antigravity CLI skill + MCP server — what Omni Flash actually does, a field guide to all eight tool calls, multi-turn stateful edits, an idiot-proof install guide, and a one-tool-call path to YouTube.

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Jul 23

Teaching Codex to Paint: A Stateful Image-Editing Skill Built on Gemini's Interactions API and MCP

How nb2lite-skill-codex packages Google's gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image as a Codex skill + MCP server — with Codex-native install paths, stateful edits, and a dogfooded cover.

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Jul 24

Teaching Claude Code to Direct: A Stateful Video-Editing Skill Built on Gemini’s Interactions API…

Teaching Claude Code to Direct: A Stateful Video-Editing Skill Built on Gemini’s...

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Jul 23

Teaching Kiro to Paint: A Stateful Image-Editing Skill Built on Gemini's Interactions API and MCP

TL;DR: nb2lite-skill-kiro wraps Google's gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image model (NB2Lite) in a tiny...

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Jul 22

Teaching Claude Code to Paint: A Stateful Image-Editing Skill Built on Gemini's Interactions API and MCP

How nb2lite-skill-claude packages Google's gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image as a Claude Code skill + MCP server — with multi-turn stateful edits, an idiot-proof install guide, and a dogfooded cover image.

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Jul 21

Gemma 4 E2B on a Single TPU v6e Chip: A Serving Deep Dive

What it took to deploy, why the QAT checkpoints refuse to load, and what one flex-start v6e chip is actually worth — measured live.

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Jul 21

tpu-management: a Claude Code skill for running Gemma 4 on Cloud TPUs

A Claude Code skill + MCP server that provisions Google Cloud TPU capacity, serves Gemma 4 with vLLM, benchmarks it, and tears it down — installable in one command.

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Jul 20

Gemma4 DevOps In Action

In the last entry I got Gemma-4's 128-expert MoE running on an inf2.24xlarge and signed off with...

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