🌾 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. The Problem: Intell