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A cue ends where the next begins, or 2 s after its last word. s1 00:00:01.309 --> 00:00:03.309 [music] s2 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:17.320 So, we are going to look at how you can build and code your own autonomous Wall Street co-worker. s3 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:22.080 So, hopefully we have many finance people or like engineers working in finance here. s4 00:00:22.080 --> 00:00:26.560 So, quickly before we go into like what right where we are coming from. s5 00:00:26.560 --> 00:00:28.840 Two years ago, we basically had a chatbot. s6 00:00:28.840 --> 00:00:32.279 We asked some simple question like what's the capital of France? s7 00:00:32.279 --> 00:00:34.800 Like who won the last European championship? s8 00:00:34.800 --> 00:00:42.000 Then we moved to assistance using tools on our own computer, having the first coding agents writing code for us. s9 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:56.880 And now we are moving into like this autonomous co-worker area where we basically give and or create a digital employee where we give an agent its own computer, give it a task and hopefully come back a few hours later with a good result. s10 00:00:56.880 --> 00:00:59.880 So, what does a co-worker normally need? s11 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:03.440 And I think that goes for AI and for us humans as well. s12 00:01:03.440 --> 00:01:06.800 We need a brain to be able to do our work. s13 00:01:06.800 --> 00:01:12.640 We need a computer where we can save artifacts we create, where we can iterate. s14 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:14.840 We need some kind of a new playbook, right? s15 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:19.200 When you hire someone new, they are new to your environment, to your domain. s16 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:22.400 You might have specific workflows, so you need playbooks. s17 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:25.520 We need tools for them to be able to do that job. s18 00:01:25.520 --> 00:01:29.360 They all need credentials in one or the other way. s19 00:01:29.360 --> 00:01:37.160 Then there might be some specific house rules on what you should do or what you should not do, what you can do on your own or where you need to get some approvals. s20 00:01:37.160 --> 00:01:45.320 And then of course, there are hopefully some schedules for working hours when you can come in or when you have to work. s21 00:01:45.320 --> 00:01:47.320 And the same goes for for our agents. s22 00:01:47.320 --> 00:01:54.280 So, and we are going to work through all of those seven steps and how you can build your own digital co-worker with Gemini in this talk. s23 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:56.760 But before we go in, yesterday was the big day. s24 00:01:56.760 --> 00:02:01.092 We announced Gemini for Argon and made it available to you. s25 00:02:01.092 --> 00:02:05.972 Um, biggest new features, we have now 1 million unified contacts window. s26 00:02:05.972 --> 00:02:16.212 This means Gemini can generate up to 1 million output tokens and we see strong improvements especially on math and reasoning task where the model now has more than 64K s27 00:02:16.212 --> 00:02:23.292 token available to think, to work through, to reason through some proofs and for math for for math. s28 00:02:23.292 --> 00:02:27.612 And then very also very good is like we tested that model heavily. s29 00:02:27.612 --> 00:02:35.372 So, we know there are always some thinking around hey, Gemini is just banks benchmarks, but the model is really good. s30 00:02:35.372 --> 00:02:36.892 You should definitely give it a try. s31 00:02:36.892 --> 00:02:39.452 We used it extensively at Google. s32 00:02:39.452 --> 00:02:43.212 There are already many projects by Google employees who have used it. s33 00:02:43.212 --> 00:02:46.412 The easiest way to get started is the interactions API. s34 00:02:46.412 --> 00:02:49.492 It's literally four lines of code which for you to take. s35 00:02:49.492 --> 00:02:57.052 You get your API key in the AI Studio, ai.studio.com/apikey and then you can immediately send your request. s36 00:02:57.052 --> 00:03:02.492 It's also I would say quite affordable for a frontier model with $2 in and $10 out. s37 00:03:02.492 --> 00:03:12.052 You should definitely try if you have a free minute later or even if you have some agents running right now, give it a link, tell it hey, please set up Gemini 4 and give it a try. s38 00:03:12.052 --> 00:03:14.812 So, what have Googlers done so far with the model? s39 00:03:14.812 --> 00:03:17.492 I think it's very impressive because it's like a super new model. s40 00:03:17.492 --> 00:03:24.972 We had it available internally to test for a few weeks already, but Googlers are using it so heavily and like shipping so many cool things. s41 00:03:24.972 --> 00:03:30.292 We had the Chrome team like basically accelerating some decoupling of the Chromium browser. s42 00:03:30.292 --> 00:03:38.132 We have Gemma which is our open model where Gemini accelerated Gemma to be more easily and more efficient to run. s43 00:03:38.132 --> 00:03:50.932 The ADK team from Cloud improved their the framework and then many many other things and especially the right one at the bottom is like we use it internally heavily and we see strong improvements for our s44 00:03:50.932 --> 00:03:53.092 internal like code base as well. s45 00:03:53.092 --> 00:03:54.732 So, what have people built? s46 00:03:54.732 --> 00:03:56.012 There are some demos. s47 00:03:56.012 --> 00:04:00.532 You can look them up, but there's one specific one from a colleague of mine which I want to show. s48 00:04:00.532 --> 00:04:14.454 He basically prompted Gemini to build a custom 3D ray tracer in Python and it was completely built from Gemini and nothing external tools and at the end just Python and it also used s49 00:04:14.454 --> 00:04:23.494 the Gemini TTS model and Luria to add some voice over to explain how it works and it's like very impressive for me how far we can push those models now. s50 00:04:23.494 --> 00:04:25.814 So, try to be very ambitious. s51 00:04:25.814 --> 00:04:29.094 So, how can we build our agent? s52 00:04:29.094 --> 00:04:39.534 And in Gemini API we have a product called managed agents and managed agent is basically a simple way for you to build a remote agent where you give Gemini s53 00:04:39.534 --> 00:04:42.974 a sandbox which it can use to run tools. s54 00:04:42.974 --> 00:04:47.974 So, when we normally build an agent we have this weird tool calling loop, right? s55 00:04:47.974 --> 00:04:57.854 We send a request to the model, the model might generate a JSON function call, we receive that function call, we run that function call on our machine, execute the code s56 00:04:57.854 --> 00:04:59.174 and then we go back to the model. s57 00:04:59.174 --> 00:05:05.214 And with managed agents we basically provide a sandbox which Gemini can directly use to run all of those calls. s58 00:05:05.214 --> 00:05:13.534 So, if it decides to execute code to write a file, it has its own computer available for it to use and it takes just an API call. s59 00:05:13.534 --> 00:05:22.934 So, instead of providing the model ID with Gemini 4 Argon you provide the agent ID in this case it's anti-gravity preview 09. s60 00:05:22.934 --> 00:05:23.854 Give it a prompt. s61 00:05:23.854 --> 00:05:28.774 The environment is remote so you want to run it in the managed sandbox and that's all it takes. s62 00:05:28.774 --> 00:05:32.014 So, let's get into building bug. s63 00:05:32.014 --> 00:05:36.014 Bug is our co-worker for today and bug needs a brain. s64 00:05:36.014 --> 00:05:42.134 Our brain is going to be Gemini, our computer is going to be agents and then we have all of the other things. s65 00:05:42.134 --> 00:05:44.614 So, how can you create an agent? s66 00:05:44.614 --> 00:05:49.294 In managed agents you have a very simple API where you can define your own agent. s67 00:05:49.294 --> 00:05:53.854 So, you give it an ID, that's the name which you're going to use later to call the agent. s68 00:05:53.854 --> 00:05:57.574 We have the base agent so that's the the main agent underlying. s69 00:05:57.574 --> 00:05:59.534 In this case it's the the agent harness. s70 00:05:59.534 --> 00:06:06.495 So, the remote agent uses the same managed uh sorry, the same agent harness which we have in anti-gravity as well. s71 00:06:06.495 --> 00:06:12.615 So, if you're using anti-gravity as your coding agent, you get the same agent uh harness uh remotely. s72 00:06:12.615 --> 00:06:15.935 Then, we want to use the new model, so we define our model. s73 00:06:15.935 --> 00:06:26.735 We have a system instruction, you are bug, and then all it takes to call it again, interactions API create, and instead of um using the model ID for Gemini s74 00:06:26.735 --> 00:06:30.255 or the default agent, we use our own agent, bug. s75 00:06:30.255 --> 00:06:36.935 And our agent needs a computer, and the computer normally needs some additional files, additional scaffolding. s76 00:06:36.935 --> 00:06:43.295 So, with managed agents, you can provide your skills or an agents.md file maybe from your GitHub repository. s77 00:06:43.295 --> 00:06:45.375 You can inline those files directly. s78 00:06:45.375 --> 00:06:56.255 You can provide a GitHub repository, private or public, with your skills, and you can connect GCS bucket, so you can already bootstrap the environment the agent is going to work in. s79 00:06:56.255 --> 00:06:59.735 And everything in managed agent lives as a file. s80 00:06:59.735 --> 00:07:03.895 So, we have skills, we have hooks, we have system instructions. s81 00:07:03.895 --> 00:07:12.615 At the end, it's just a file system or the agent's own computer where it can create new skills if it thinks it needs to improve itself, where it can stores s82 00:07:12.615 --> 00:07:15.175 um memories from previous sessions or learning. s83 00:07:15.175 --> 00:07:17.815 So, at the end, we just work with files. s84 00:07:17.815 --> 00:07:25.015 And for knowledge or for our agent, I like to separate those in like three different categories. s85 00:07:25.015 --> 00:07:30.135 So, we have uh knowledge which we always need to include into every request. s86 00:07:30.135 --> 00:07:31.935 That's normally the system instructions. s87 00:07:31.935 --> 00:07:33.695 We want to be very concise. s88 00:07:33.695 --> 00:07:38.735 We want to try to keep it very short because that's something we need to pay on every request. s89 00:07:38.735 --> 00:07:43.855 So, if we have very long system instructions, all of our requests are going to be much more expensive. s90 00:07:43.855 --> 00:07:51.575 If we have concise, then we have um knowledge which uh the agent can decide when it needs to use them or not. s91 00:07:51.575 --> 00:07:53.575 So, that's typically uh with skills, right? s92 00:07:53.575 --> 00:08:03.535 With skills, we have very short descriptions which give the agent some guidance on like, "Hey, you can use that skill if the user wants to do a certain task or if you have to do certain task." s93 00:08:03.535 --> 00:08:06.295 And then can can read the agent can read that skill. s94 00:08:06.295 --> 00:08:14.097 But for skills, we also want to make sure that we are not having a super long dense skills because that's also a high cost at the end. s95 00:08:14.097 --> 00:08:16.417 Context is very valuable for us. s96 00:08:16.417 --> 00:08:27.817 So, we want to decouple them and separate them into much more slices where we can then have like dedicated references and scripts if we want the agent to like do very certain s97 00:08:27.817 --> 00:08:29.897 things where it needs more context. s98 00:08:29.897 --> 00:08:30.497 Okay. s99 00:08:30.497 --> 00:08:33.137 So, let's look at an example skill which we are going to use. s100 00:08:33.137 --> 00:08:35.097 So, we have a portfolio audit. s101 00:08:35.097 --> 00:08:36.097 The agent should use it. s102 00:08:36.097 --> 00:08:38.657 It has some instructions available for it how to run it. s103 00:08:38.657 --> 00:08:46.097 So, we have a Python script the agent can run and then some additional information on what it needs to do with the results and where to store it. s104 00:08:46.097 --> 00:08:52.337 Um our fourth um part of our onboarding for our co-workers tools, right? s105 00:08:52.337 --> 00:08:54.537 We humans use normal software. s106 00:08:54.537 --> 00:08:59.857 For agents, that's either built-in skills like Google Search, code executions, or MCP server. s107 00:08:59.857 --> 00:09:05.177 Or if you don't have an MCP server and rather want to write um local function, that's also possible. s108 00:09:05.177 --> 00:09:08.657 So, in managed agents, we still have our agents create. s109 00:09:08.657 --> 00:09:12.817 We are now extending uh it to define our tools. s110 00:09:12.817 --> 00:09:16.217 We have built-in tools from the Gemini API for Google Search. s111 00:09:16.217 --> 00:09:20.337 So, you there's nothing you need to additionally do to get Google Search integrated. s112 00:09:20.337 --> 00:09:29.337 But if you want to use for example spreadsheets, uh workspace has now an MCP server available for Gmail, for spreadsheets, so we can use that. s113 00:09:29.337 --> 00:09:34.537 Or if you want to provide your own functions or MCP server, that's also possible. s114 00:09:34.537 --> 00:09:38.937 So, for your own function, it still works the same way as you normally do with models. s115 00:09:38.937 --> 00:09:43.137 So, the agent creates a function call and then you send back the function result. s116 00:09:43.137 --> 00:09:50.697 So, it's basically for you a way to have agentic capabilities outside of these uh agent's environment and computer. s117 00:09:50.697 --> 00:09:57.737 So, if you want to do certain things where the agent should not run the execution in the sandbox, that's a way for you to do it. s118 00:09:57.737 --> 00:09:59.737 And then we are logins. s119 00:09:59.737 --> 00:10:08.457 And I think that's for me the most exciting and the greatest feature about the managed agents API because credentials are super hard and super easy to get wrong with agents. s120 00:10:08.457 --> 00:10:26.658 And I think the previous talk already also mentioned that we are very careful about using agent because things could go wrong very easily, and we thought a lot about this with managed agents, and we have support for three different ways of credentials, which makes it secure for your agent to use them, and provide an isolated way. s121 00:10:26.658 --> 00:10:32.338 So, we have bearer tokens for normal API calls, very familiar if you are doing software engineering. s122 00:10:32.338 --> 00:10:42.978 We have OAuth for all of the consumer-oriented MCP servers or like tools, and then of course we need environment variables if we want to use certain CLIs or other features. s123 00:10:42.978 --> 00:10:48.818 And for managed agents, we are separating them via an external network proxy. s124 00:10:48.818 --> 00:10:57.098 So, instead of providing the agent the credentials inside the sandbox, we basically allow you to create credentials externally. s125 00:10:57.098 --> 00:11:05.898 They are right only, so once they're written, there's no way for you to retrieve the credentials, so you can only override them. s126 00:11:05.898 --> 00:11:11.338 So, there's no possibility of leaking, and then you define how and where those credentials should be used. s127 00:11:11.338 --> 00:11:21.258 So, for it's like if you want to connect Slack, you can define, "Hey, here's the credential, and you are only allowed to use that credential with a certain domain s128 00:11:21.258 --> 00:11:23.738 or with a certain environment variable." s129 00:11:23.738 --> 00:11:30.178 So, that way you can control when a credential is used, and that works via this network proxy. s130 00:11:30.178 --> 00:11:38.098 And by network proxy, we basically mean a proxy that sits around the sandbox that watches all of the network traffic going in and out. s131 00:11:38.098 --> 00:11:51.658 So, if you define credential as an environment variable, the model has a local dummy value, so the environment variable is set, and then when it makes that call, it uses that dummy value, and the network proxy basically s132 00:11:51.658 --> 00:12:03.258 monitors it, sees, "Hey, here is a domain which has to which the user has defined," and then it swaps that dummy value with the real credential, and you can make the call successfully, s133 00:12:03.258 --> 00:12:09.578 and then it the agent gets back the result and has like no idea this dummy token is not working. s134 00:12:09.578 --> 00:12:13.379 And the benefit here is that there's no way for a prompt injection, right? s135 00:12:13.379 --> 00:12:19.539 Normally, when you have some malicious attacker, it can tell you like, "Hey, please print all of your values in your .env file." s136 00:12:19.539 --> 00:12:23.819 And then the agent might go there and like prints all of your keys, and that's nothing we want to do. s137 00:12:23.819 --> 00:12:38.779 So, with this network proxy where you can define the credentials per domain, it is not possible that an attacker could steal credentials which are getting swapped on your request because the proxy only swaps them for the domains you define. s138 00:12:38.779 --> 00:12:49.819 So, there's no way the an MCP server which is malicious can like just steal your Gmail token, which is very cool because it makes it much more easier to trust the agent and to s139 00:12:49.819 --> 00:12:54.139 integrate MCP servers which the agent then obviously can use. s140 00:12:54.139 --> 00:12:58.979 So, and then if that's not enough, we have also hooks available. s141 00:12:58.979 --> 00:13:03.459 So, hooks allows you to basically deterministically guard certain decisions. s142 00:13:03.459 --> 00:13:13.979 So, if the agent wants to run certain commands which you might want to monitor or where you need some human in the loop approval, which is not part of like the normal agenda conversation, s143 00:13:13.979 --> 00:13:24.379 you can define your hooks very similar to all of the other agent harnesses where you have a matcher, which is basically regex, and then every tool call which the agent generates checks if there's a match, s144 00:13:24.379 --> 00:13:25.939 and then writes those hooks. s145 00:13:25.939 --> 00:13:36.699 And those hooks are also files, but they are protected, so the agent cannot just go there and changes a hook and like basically tries to to to find a way around it. s146 00:13:36.699 --> 00:13:43.619 Okay, so last but not least, we need a way to, yeah, get our agent more proactive. s147 00:13:43.619 --> 00:13:55.819 And currently, we support one kind of triggers, basic cron triggers which you can set up a schedule every uh 30 days a month at 8:00 a.m. you want the agent to run a certain trigger s148 00:13:55.819 --> 00:14:01.179 with a certain input in the same environment to do maybe some due diligence, some auditing. s149 00:14:01.179 --> 00:14:12.019 And we are also working on webhooks that you can even like make this much more interactive that you could connect um external webhooks like from some certain SAC provider or maybe other s150 00:14:12.019 --> 00:14:15.621 providers you work together with which would directly then call your agent. s151 00:14:15.621 --> 00:14:27.141 The agent does [clears throat] some first auditing and then like basically can call your Slack or your Microsoft Teams directly without you even needing to manage some infrastructure at all. s152 00:14:27.421 --> 00:14:29.581 So, that's that. s153 00:14:29.581 --> 00:14:38.141 Uh final pit picture and now let's look at some real demos and let's hopefully hope that the Wi-Fi is good enough. s154 00:14:38.141 --> 00:14:51.421 So, I told Gemini that I want to do a cool Google Sheets demo and it helped me create basically this whole Google Sheets replication in my browser and when I click here, we basically simulate the strong trigger. s155 00:14:51.421 --> 00:14:55.061 So, we send a real API call to managed agents. s156 00:14:55.061 --> 00:14:59.661 It should use our portfolio auditing skill and it runs the request. s157 00:14:59.661 --> 00:15:04.701 So, first step basically see like, "Hey, I need to read the skill." s158 00:15:04.701 --> 00:15:05.981 It gets the result back. s159 00:15:05.981 --> 00:15:08.301 So, it tries to understand what it should do here. s160 00:15:08.301 --> 00:15:12.901 It's like a I hope that's roughly accurate on like the the Google Sheets. s161 00:15:12.901 --> 00:15:20.741 Um but it basically runs through all of those call calls financial services, tries to see, "Okay, did the market or the stock price change?" s162 00:15:20.741 --> 00:15:27.061 And then at the end, hopefully it should update our own Google Sheets completely uh automatically. s163 00:15:27.061 --> 00:15:29.101 So, it's still working through it. s164 00:15:29.101 --> 00:15:39.261 It has some first result and it updates the Google Sheet based on that trigger and that trigger would run every 8:30 a.m. without you needing to do anything. s165 00:15:39.261 --> 00:15:47.421 And then of course, if the agent has access to Slack, then it can even like post in some like specific trading channel, "Okay, what changed? s166 00:15:47.421 --> 00:15:48.341 What is going on? s167 00:15:48.341 --> 00:15:49.901 How does it work?" s168 00:15:49.901 --> 00:15:59.901 And here we have an example where I can just ask Spark, uh any recommendation? s169 00:16:01.821 --> 00:16:03.981 And hopefully this works as well. s170 00:16:03.981 --> 00:16:05.221 So, it takes a little bit of time. s171 00:16:05.221 --> 00:16:06.701 You have seen in the other demo. s172 00:16:06.701 --> 00:16:08.981 We have seen all of that perfect. s173 00:16:08.981 --> 00:16:10.461 So, there there are three positions. s174 00:16:10.461 --> 00:16:13.661 So, that's based on like this Slack uh Slack content. s175 00:16:13.661 --> 00:16:23.462 So, it has all of the previous turns available and it provides the context of what changed, but it's still basically not taking actions based on the system instructions you gave. s176 00:16:23.462 --> 00:16:29.502 And all of the infrastructure you need to run that agent is part of the managed agents environment. s177 00:16:29.502 --> 00:16:38.782 So, it's very easy for you to get started to like integrate those into like the tools you already use, provide the the systems you need, and then like to get started. s178 00:16:38.782 --> 00:16:45.302 So, back to the slide. s179 00:16:45.302 --> 00:16:49.982 So, the whole co-worker, which we need in like one service we have to plan, Gemini. s180 00:16:49.982 --> 00:16:51.982 We have the computer with managed agents. s181 00:16:51.982 --> 00:16:56.982 We can provide skills for the same agents you use maybe on your your local computer. s182 00:16:56.982 --> 00:16:58.222 You can use the tools. s183 00:16:58.222 --> 00:17:03.022 You can provide MCP server for external services, data providers to connect. s184 00:17:03.022 --> 00:17:07.462 We have a secure way for you to provide credentials, to rotate credentials. s185 00:17:07.462 --> 00:17:10.462 We have hooks to protect certain deterministic logic. s186 00:17:10.462 --> 00:17:14.342 And of course, we have triggers to much more proactively integrated into it. s187 00:17:14.342 --> 00:17:19.822 So, thanks for listening, and hopefully go hire your first AI co-worker. s188 00:17:20.151 --> 00:17:22.151 [applause]