e2b-adk

A Google ADK plugin backed by E2B sandboxes. Attach it to an ADK agent and the agent can generate and run code, execute shell commands, read and write files, and start long-running processes — all inside an isolated E2B sandbox, with no infrastructure of your own.

Under the hood every tool call runs in the E2B Code Interpreter, so the model's code executes in a real Python kernel instead of being trusted blind.

Install

pip install e2b-adk

Or with uv:

uv pip install e2b-adk

Credentials

You need an E2B API key for the sandbox and a model key for the agent's LLM (Gemini is ADK's default):

export E2B_API_KEY="..."
export GOOGLE_API_KEY="..."

Get an E2B key at e2b.dev/dashboard.

Quickstart

Create the plugin, hand its tools to an Agent, and register the plugin on the App. The plugin owns the sandbox lifecycle — you never create or tear one down yourself.

import asyncio

from google.adk.agents import Agent
from google.adk.apps import App
from google.adk.runners import InMemoryRunner

from e2b_adk import E2BPlugin


async def main() -> None:
    plugin = E2BPlugin()
    agent = Agent(
        model="gemini-2.5-flash",
        name="coder",
        instruction="Write and run Python to answer the user. Verify with run_code.",
        tools=plugin.get_tools(),
    )
    app = App(name="demo", root_agent=agent, plugins=[plugin])

    async with InMemoryRunner(app=app) as runner:
        # run_debug prints the conversation as it runs.
        await runner.run_debug("Compute the 20th Fibonacci number.")


asyncio.run(main())

Tools

plugin.get_tools() returns six tools. Each returns a JSON-serializable dict with a success flag — tools report failures in the result rather than raising, so a bad call never aborts the agent run. success means the tool ran: code that raised or a command that exited non-zero still returns success: True with the failure captured in error / exit_code. Only a call that could not run at all (sandbox unavailable, timeout) returns success: False.

Configuration

E2BPlugin takes keyword-only options, all optional. Anything you don't set falls back to the E2B SDK's own default — the plugin overrides none of them.

E2BPlugin(
    # Common options
    api_key=None,               # defaults to the E2B_API_KEY env var
    template=None,              # E2B sandbox template
    metadata=None,              # dict[str, str] attached to the sandbox
    envs=None,                  # dict[str, str] environment variables
    timeout=None,               # sandbox timeout in seconds (re-applied on every tool call)
    plugin_name="e2b_plugin",
    # Passed straight through to AsyncSandbox.create() — see the E2B SDK docs
    secure=None,
    allow_internet_access=None,
    mcp=None,
    network=None,
    lifecycle=None,             # e.g. pause/auto-resume; defaults to E2B's behavior
    volume_mounts=None,
    # **opts: any other AsyncSandbox.create() / connection param (proxy, request_timeout, …)
)

Examples

• examples/data_analysis.py — a data-analysis agent that saves a dataset and computes real answers with pandas instead of guessing.
• examples/code_generator.py — a code generator that executes every snippet before returning it.

Run one with the credentials above:

uv run --extra examples python examples/data_analysis.py

v1 notes

• Sequential tool calls. One sandbox is shared per plugin; calls are meant to run one at a time, not concurrently. Concurrent calls are safe for the sandbox lifecycle (creation is locked) but share one filesystem and kernel.
• Text-only output. Tools return text — stdout/stderr/file contents. Rich results (charts, dataframes, images) are not surfaced yet.
• Lazy, shared sandbox lifecycle. The sandbox is created on the first tool call and reused for the agent's lifetime, then killed when the runner exits.
• Keep-alive while active, expiry when idle. While a sandbox SDK operation is active, a best-effort heartbeat refreshes its timeout (E2B's default is 300s), including when a foreground call runs longer than that timeout. A final refresh starts the full idle window when the operation ends. An idle gap longer than timeout still expires the sandbox under E2B's default lifecycle (on_timeout: kill), and later tool calls return failure results — pass e.g. lifecycle={"on_timeout": {"action": "pause"}, "auto_resume": True} to pause and auto-resume across idle gaps instead.
• Bounded output. Output larger than 10 KB per field is truncated with a …[truncated N bytes] marker so a single call can't flood the model's context.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.