Google opens Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready as a free training path for agents in production

Google Cloud announced Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR), a free training program, on August 6. Twelve skill badges and hands-on labs live on skills.google, and a companion contest called the All Things Agentic Hackathon runs on Devpost from August 3 to August 31 with $180,000 on offer in prizes, cash and credits. The launch post opens on the question, verbatim, "How do we actually get agents into production?".

For CI/CD teams the interesting choice is what Google decided to teach. Two named learning paths cover ground that pipeline owners tend to inherit once an agent leaves the notebook: "Build High-Performance Multi-Agent Systems" for orchestration, and "Govern and Secure Enterprise Agents" for the audit and blast-radius side. The material is delivered as skill badges rather than a proctored certification, so what a team walks away with is a checked box against a lab, not a graded exam.

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Free training is easy to like. It is also downstream of the harder problem, which is that the shape of "an agent in production" is not settled. A skill badge on securing enterprise agents does not decide whether your agent gets its own IAM identity or borrows the runner's, whether a tool call belongs behind a change window, or what a rollback looks like when the failing artifact is a prompt.

The courses will help engineers reason about those choices. They will not answer them. And because the material is Google-first, the reference model for orchestration and MCP integration reflects the Agent Development Kit's assumptions; teams running on Vertex-adjacent stacks will find the mapping straight, teams on other clouds less so.

The hackathon closes August 31. The badges stay up after.