Google updates Gemini API Managed Agents with Linux sandboxes, asynchronous background execution, and remote MCP support

Today, we're shipping 4 new capabilities for Managed Agents in the @GoogleDeepMind Gemini API! Background Execution, Remote MCP servers, Custom Function Calling and credentials refresh. ⏱️ Run long-running tasks asynchronously on the server (`background: true`) 🔌 Connect… Show more

Today we are rolling out some big updates to Managed Agents in the Gemini API: - support for background tasks - remote MCP & function calling - network credential refresh and you can now get started with Managed agents in the API via the free tier!… Show more

⏳One of the most annoying parts of building agents is dealing with timeouts when a task actually takes a few minutes to run. We just rolled out two updates to Managed Agents in the Gemini API to simplify this: 1⃣ Background tasks so you can kick off long-running jobs without… Show more