This document describes how to resolve errors that you might encounter when setting up an environment for Agent Runtime. It covers troubleshooting steps for package import problems.
Errors when importing the Agent Platform SDK
If you can't import the Agent Platform SDK for Python, it might be caused by one of the following issues:
Outdated version of the Agent Platform SDK for Python
Issue:
You receive an error message similar to the following:
ImportError: cannot import name 'reasoning_engines' from 'vertexai.preview'
or
ImportError: cannot import name 'agent_angines' from 'vertexai'
Possible cause:
This might happen if the version of your google-cloud-aiplatform
package
is earlier than 1.82.0
(for agent_engines
) or 1.47.0
(for reasoning_engines
). To check the version of your google-cloud-aiplatform
package, run the following command in the terminal:
pip
show
google-cloud-aiplatform
Recommended solution:
Run the following command in your terminal to update your google-cloud-aiplatform
package:
pip
install
google-cloud-aiplatform
--upgrade
Verify your updated version is 1.82.0
or later by running the following command:
pip
show
google-cloud-aiplatform
If you're in a notebook instance (For example, Jupyter or Colab or Workbench), you might need to restart your runtime to use the updated packages.

