---
title: "DigitalOcean Agent Development Kit (ADK) deprecated: 2026-10-01 | Harbyn"
description: "DigitalOcean Agent Development Kit (ADK) deprecated, announced Oct 1, 2026."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/digitalocean/2026-10-01-1-october-2026-inference"
last-updated: 2026-10-08
---

# DigitalOcean Agent Development Kit (ADK) deprecated

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/changes/digitalocean/2026-10-01-1-october-2026-inference>.

Deprecation - DigitalOcean. medium severity. In effect.

ADK, including the gradient-adk Python package and gradient CLI, is deprecated. New agents cannot be deployed with ADK; agents already deployed with ADK continue to run normally.

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | [DigitalOcean](https://harbyn.com/vendors/digitalocean.md) |
| Kind | Deprecation |
| Severity | medium |
| Status | In effect |
| Announced | Oct 1, 2026 |
| Added to Harbyn | Oct 8, 2026 |
| Lead time | No dated deadline |
| Packages | `pypi: gradient-adk >=0.0.0` |
| Vendor page | <https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-adk-deprecation/> |
| Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a model |

## Find it in your code

```sh
npx harbyn scan
```

The scanner reads your repository on your machine and reports every file and line that uses the identifiers above. Nothing leaves your machine.

## Sources

Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot.

- <https://docs.digitalocean.com/release-notes/index.xml> (changelog, fetched 2026-10-08 17:16 UTC, sha256 `c711ab94f99b3edb57573774e37592e4f972a0cd524d036451419fa210fac9dc`)

## Related changes

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- [PostgreSQL Advanced Edition no longer supports installing extensions](https://harbyn.com/changes/digitalocean/2026-09-30-30-september-2026-postgresql.md) (Breaking change, announced Sep 30, 2026)
- [PostgreSQL and MySQL Standard Edition drop plans above 4 GiB RAM and standby/read-only nodes](https://harbyn.com/changes/digitalocean/2026-09-30-30-september-2026-postgresql-mysql-upcoming.md) (Retirement, effective Nov 30, 2026)
- [doctl gradient commands deprecated](https://harbyn.com/changes/digitalocean/2026-09-29-29-september-2026-doctl-inference.md) (Deprecation, announced Sep 29, 2026)
- [Valkey 9 available for database clusters](https://harbyn.com/changes/digitalocean/2026-09-28-28-september-2026-valkey.md) (Behavior change, announced Sep 28, 2026)

### Changes at other vendors

- [AWS Lambda: Python 3.10 runtime deprecation](https://harbyn.com/changes/aws-lambda/2026-10-08-python-3-10-runtime-deprecation.md) (effective Oct 31, 2026)
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- [Google Cloud Run and Functions: .NET 8 runtime deprecation](https://harbyn.com/changes/google-cloud/2026-10-08-net-8-runtime-deprecation.md) (effective Nov 10, 2026)
- [GitHub: X-GitHub-Stateless-S2S-Token header ignored from 2026-11-30](https://harbyn.com/changes/github/2026-10-02-x-github-stateless-s2s-token-header-ignored-from-2026-11-30.md) (effective Nov 30, 2026)

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