From weeks to minutes: The new agentic era of data pipelines

Data pipelines are the backbone of the modern enterprise, yet a barrier to entry exists for orchestrating them, making this critical capability unavailable to many data professionals. Following our announcements at Google Cloud NEXT ’26 , where we introduced the Orchestration Pipelines framework, we are fundamentally changing this dynamic. To bring this powerful framework directly to practitioners, we offer the Data Agent Kit — a unified, freely available, and open-source collection of data engineering and data science tools that integrate directly into your preferred IDE or CLI (such as VS Co