From the course: Hands-On AI: Building Agents with the Google Agent Development Toolkit (ADK)

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Context-aware agents: Practical session and state management

Context-aware agents: Practical session and state management

From the course: Hands-On AI: Building Agents with the Google Agent Development Toolkit (ADK)

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Context-aware agents: Practical session and state management

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- [Instructor] So you've been talking to your digital assistant, but you feel like you have to start over with every single question. You ask, what's the weather in San Francisco today? And it gives you the answer. However, if you follow up with and what for the next three days? It replies for what city? It's frustrating and that is not how real conversations work. The secret to fixing this lies in mastering Google ADKs three core concepts for conversational context. We talked about in the last video. Session, state and memory. Let's learn to weave these features together to transform simple bots into stateful agents that remember leading to more natural and intelligent conversations. Let's start with the session. In ADK a session represents a single bounded interaction between a user and your agent system. Identified by your unique SESSION_ID, think of it as a private room for one continuous conversation. Crucially, a session object holds the chronological sequence of all messages…

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