Does ADK support streaming responses from sub-agents in a SequentialAgent pipeline?

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I'm building a pipeline where a root SequentialAgent calls two sub-agents
in order and I want to stream the final response back to the user.
Does streaming=True propagate to sub-agents, or do I need to set it on each one?

Using ADK Python 0.5.0, Cloud Run deployment.

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TLDR: Yes, setting streaming=True on the root SequentialAgent is sufficient. ADK will manage the streaming context across all sub-agents in the sequence.

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Hello! Based on the ADK documentation, you are correct that you only need to enable streaming on your root SequentialAgent. You do not need to set streaming=True on each individual sub-agent.

Here's how it works:

• Automatic Orchestration: The SequentialAgent is designed to provide smooth transitions between sub-agents during a streaming session. Your application will receive a continuous stream of events, and ADK manages the handoffs between agents for you. [1]
• Identifying the Source: To know which sub-agent is currently generating events, you can inspect the event.author field in the streaming response. [1]
• Context Passing: In a multi-agent streaming scenario, ADK ensures context is passed from one agent to the next. Specifically for voice, ADK converts the audio input into text and passes that text as context to the subsequent agent in the sequence. [5]

While one of the quickstart guides includes a note suggesting SequentialAgent streaming is a future feature [11], this appears to be outdated. The core developer guides confirm this functionality is supported and has been available since version 0.1.0 [9], so it is fully available in your 0.5.0 version.

[1] ADK Streaming Developer Guide, Part 3 (gs://adk-knowledge-bucket-cloud-vi-test/adk-docs/docs/streaming/dev-guide/part3.html)
[5] ADK Agents Overview (gs://adk-knowledge-bucket-cloud-vi-test/adk-python/AGENTS.html)
[9] Sequential Agents Documentation (gs://adk-knowledge-bucket-cloud-vi-test/adk-docs/docs/agents/workflow-agents/sequential-agents.html)
[11] Quickstart Streaming (gs://adk-knowledge-bucket-cloud-vi-test/adk-docs/docs/get-started/streaming/quickstart-streaming.html)

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