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Genkit Middleware adds retries, fallbacks and approvals around tool loops

Google added composable generate, model and tool hooks to Genkit for context injection, retry, provider fallback, caching, logging, sandboxing and human approval.

Why it matters: Middleware places reliability and safety controls outside model prompts, where they can be tested and applied consistently to every call or tool action.

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FunctionGemma puts trainable tool use on edge devices

Google released FunctionGemma, a 270M-parameter Gemma 3 variant for turning natural language into structured function calls. It includes weights, a Mobile Actions fine-tuning recipe and deployment support across mobile and local runtimes.

Why it matters: A small specialist can execute narrow actions privately and quickly on-device, while routing harder requests to a larger model.

Read storyOriginal source · blog.google