Google's Opal Quietly Shows Enterprise Teams the New Blueprint for Building AI Agents
Google doesn’t always announce its most important moves loudly. The rollout of an “agent step” update to Opal — Google Labs’ no-code visual agent builder — didn’t get a splashy keynote. But for anyone building enterprise AI agents in 2026, it quietly sets out a reference architecture worth studying carefully. Opal’s new agent step is now available to all users. And what it ships isn’t just a feature — it’s a working implementation of the design principles that serious enterprise agent builders have been converging on for the past 18 months. ...