## TL;DR

Deploying an ADK agent to agent_engines failing with "TypeError: cannot pickle '_contextvars.Context' object": the maintainer confirmed deployment works when you pass the full requirements to agent_engines.create: remote_app = agent_engines.create(app, requirements=["google-cloud-aiplatform[agent_engines,adk]", "google-adk"]).

```text
TypeError: cannot pickle '_contextvars.Context' object
```

## Steps

1. Deploying an ADK agent to agent_engines failing with "TypeError: cannot pickle '_contextvars.Context' object": the maintainer confirmed deployment works when you pass the full requirements to agent_engines.create: remote_app = agent_engines.create(app, requirements=["google-cloud-aiplatform[agent_engines,adk]", "google-adk"]). The agent_engines extra on google-cloud-aiplatform is what pulls in the fixed serialization path.

## When to use

You are seeing this: Issue google/adk-python#856 (closed, 18 comments): I'm encountering an error when trying to deploy an agent to agent_engines. Use this skill when you run into "agent_engines: TypeError: cannot pickle '_contextvars.Context' object".

## When not to use

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## Versions

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## Why this happens

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## Sources

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## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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