🌾 I Built a System of Action: An Autonomous Agri-Agent for Smart Irrigation

This is a submission for the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge Farmers don't need more advice. They need systems that act. At Google Cloud NEXT '26, one announcement stood out to me above the rest: Vertex AI Agent Builder and the push toward agentic, multi-step AI workflows. The idea of AI that doesn't just respond — but reasons and acts — got me thinking. Could this actually work in the real world? In a field that literally depends on it? So I built something to find out....