The builder's companion to Governed Growth—the same reference repo from the implementer's chair. Why I built a one-tool MCP server to hand an assistant a reliable, governed Google search, how Gemini grounding and citation extraction work in the code, and how a full, human-validated eval picked the default model. The surprise: gemini-3.1-flash-lite matched the larger models on quality, grounded most reliably, and cost the least.
Opening a platform to more teams and more models—first-party and partner, such as Gemini and Claude—quietly assumes those capabilities share one trust boundary. They don't. Multi-model expansion is a governance-maturity story: Google Cloud lets you grant capability broadly while keeping each model's data path a deliberate, fine-grained decision. You can grow usage without growing exposure.
A deep-dive playbook for building scalable, enterprise-grade AI agents. Learn how to move beyond monolithic designs by decoupling tools with a powerful microservices architecture using ADK, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Google Cloud Run.
A case study on migrating a decade-old Jekyll website to Astro in just 3 days by partnering with AI (Google Gemini) for planning, coding, and building custom development tools.
