A month ago, I wrote about building a research assistant in Java, using the Gemini Interactions API, and the Deep Research agent. Today I wanted to revisit this project, but with the goal to make it more user-friendly, with a Javelit based frontend.

The Research Pipeline: From Query to Infographic

• First, the user enters the subject of the research.
• A button action triggers the research of possible topics about that subject (ie. the different possible facets or angles of the subject), using Gemini 3 Flash with Google Search activated.
• The user selects the facets they’re interested in, to restrict the research to only those aspects.
• Then the Deep Research agent kicks in, via the Gemini Interactions API, and spends a few minutes researching the topic.
• Once the final report is ready, Gemini 3 Pro creates a solid summary.
• The summary is used to generate a sketchnote with Nano Banana Pro.

A Look at the User Interface

Let’s say, as a user, I want to research information about the OpenClaw / MoltBot / ClawdBot personal AI assistant (unless it has again changed its name? 😃)

Have you ever wanted to turn your cool LLM prompts & tools, research notes, automation ideas, or even a simple “todo” list into an executable script? Inspired by a HackerNews post about executable Markdown, I’m happy to share gcli-mdrun, a smart little script that allows you to transform standard Markdown files into executable scripts powered by Gemini CLI.

This project allows you to create AI-driven automation, pipelines, and autonomous bots using mere Markdown text files. You can find the project on GitHub at https://github.com/glaforge/gcli-mdrun.

For my recent presentation at SnowCamp on AI Standards & Protocols for AI Agents, I decided to build an MCP server to access the arXiv research paper website where pre-print versions are published and shared with the community.

My goal was to shed light on some lesser-known aspects of the Model Context Protocol:

• 🛠️ While the majority of MCP servers use the tools feature to expose actions that LLMs can request to call,
• 📄 An MCP server can also share resources (and resource templates), exposing various static assets the AI app might be interested in,
• ✏️ And prompts (and prompt templates) that users can access and reuse to utilize the MCP server effectively.

Note: For the impatient, feel free to go straight to the GitHub repository for the full source code. The README.md file gives instructions on how to build, run, configure, and use the server.

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First of all, dear readers, let me wish you a happy new year! This is my first post on this blog for 2026. I’m looking forward to continuing sharing interesting content with you.

During my holiday break, I wanted to put my recent Java implementation of the Gemini Interactions API to the test. I implemented and released it with the help of Antigravity. My colleague Shubham Saboo and Gargi Gupta wrote a tutorial on how to build an AI research agent with Google Interactions API & Gemini 3. I thought this was a great opportunity to replicate this example in Java using my Interactions API Java SDK.

Google and DeepMind have announced the Interactions API, a new way to interact with Gemini models and agents.

Here are some useful links to learn more about this new API:

• An announcement is available on Google’s Keywords blog:
  Interactions API: A unified foundation for models and agents
• A more detailed article is available on Google’s developers blog:
  Building agents with the ADK and the new Interactions API
• The newly released Gemini Deep Research agent is now available via the Interactions API as well:
  Build with Gemini Deep Research
• The official documentation of the Interactions API.

About the Interactions API

The Rationale and Motivation

The Interactions API was introduced to address a shift in AI development, moving from simple, stateless text generation to more complex, multi-turn agentic workflows. It serves as a dedicated interface for systems that require memory, reasoning, and tool use. It provides a unified interface for both simple LLM calls and more complex agent calls.

What a wild title, isn’t it? It’s a catchy one, not generated by AI, to illustrate this crazy week of announcements by Google. Of course, there are big highlights like Gemini 3 Pro, Antigravity, or Nano Banana Pro, but not only, and this is the purpose of the article to share with you everything, including links to all the interesting materials about those news.

Gemini 3 Pro

The community was eagerly anticipating the release of Gemini 3. Gemini 3 Pro is a state-of-the-art model, with excellent multimodal capabilities, advanced reasoning, excellent at coding, and other agentic activities.

When you enjoyed reading an article on a blog, you might be interested in other, similar articles. As a blog author, you want to surface that relevant content to your readers to keep them engaged. For a long time, I’ve wanted to add a “Similar articles” section to my posts, but I never quite found a simple and effective way to do it. Hugo (the static stite generator I’m using) has a related content concept, but it wasn’t really what I was after.

In this article, I’ll guide you through the process of programmatically interacting with a web browser using the new Computer Use model in Gemini 2.5 Pro. We’ll accomplish this in Java ☕ leveraging Microsoft’s powerful Playwright Java SDK to handle the browser automation.

The New Computer Use Model

Unveiled in this announcement article and made available in public preview last month, via the Gemini API on Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, Gemini 2.5 Pro introduces a pretty powerful “Computer Use” feature.

Continuing my journey with Javelit, after creating a frontend for “Nano Banana” to generate images and a chat interface for a LangChain4j-based Gemini chat model, I decided to see how I could integrate an ADK agent with a Javelit frontend.

The Javelit interface for an ADK search agent

The key ingredients of this interface:

• a title (with some emojis 😃)
• a container that displays the agent’s answer
• a text input field to enter the search query

The ADK agent

For the purpose of this article, I built a simple search agent, with a couple of search tools:

Yesterday, I uncovered the Javelit project in this article where I built a small frontend to create and edit images with Google’s Nano Banana image model.

Javelit is an open source project inspired by Streamlit from the Python ecosystem to enable rapid prototyping and deployment of applications in Java.

Today, I want to show you another example of Javelit. This time, I’m creating a chat interface using LangChain4j with the Gemini chat model.

What we want to build