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Google AntigravityUse Google Antigravity to create advanced software solutions with AI Agents
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π Learn how to create AI Agents and software solutions with Google Antigravity.
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Google Antigravity for AI Software Developmentπ οΈ Google Antigravity is a technology stack for software development and a diverse ecosystem of advanced AI development tools, cloud services, and AI-driven solutions that empower developers to build, deploy, and optimize applications efficiently. Google Antigravity is a software development stack designed to accelerate the creation of systems with the help of AI processes, that provides streamline deployment, and enhance security of technology applications. Google Antigravity Official Website |
What is Google Antigravity?β¨ Google Antigravity is an agent-first development suite with a complete software development ecosystem. Google Antigravity developer platform is designed for the era of autonomous AI agents. It moves beyond the traditional auto-complete coding assistants (like standard Copilots) into a new realm called "Vibe Coding", where the software developer acts more like a director or a ship captain, and a fleet of autonomous AI agents do the heavy lifting. You can build AI-driven applications, cloud-native solutions, or enterprise software, offering cutting-edge tools to support your customers. Powered by Gemini (3.5 Flash & Pro) are the core technologies used to build Antigravity. Google Antigravity general information |
AI Agentsπ€ Antigravity Agents panel you can manage the AI Agents that perform the coding and development tasks. Antigravity is created with an agent-first paradigm, changing code development assistance to a system where AI agents operate with more autonomy. The IDE includes Editor and Manager views, to set up agents to generate Artifacts or products. The Artifacts are verifiable deliverables such as task lists, implementation plans, screenshots, and browser recordingsβrather than raw tool calls. The agents have direct access to the editor, terminal, run system coomands and use the integrated browser, and the context can learn from previous interactions. |
Google Antigravity FeaturesβοΈ Google Antigravity Core Architecture & Features The ecosystem is split into distinct environments depending on how a engineer prefers to work: Antigravity IDE: A customized development workspace similar to VS Code and including tools like Windsurf. It features an integrated agent sidebar with a complete understanding of the entire codebase. Antigravity Application: Is a standalone desktop control center (for macOS, Windows, and Linux) that operates independently of the code editor. It allows developers to run, schedule, and orchestrate multiple local AI agents working asynchronously in parallel. Verifiable Artifacts: Used to build developer trust, the agents don't blindly execute background code. The agents generate structured deliverables you can review in real-time. Task Lists & Implementation Plans: Includes revisions of the logic before a single line is changed. Code Diffs: Visual comparisons of file edits. Testing with UI Trackers: Automatic browser recordings and before/after screenshots to prove a front-end feature works. Getting started with Google Antigravity |
Google Antigravity Suiteπ₯οΈ Antigravity Desktop: Orchestrates background, parallel local agents. Antigravity IDE: Is a development tool fork of VS Code with Windsurf workspace AG SDK: Includes Developer toolkits. The platform abstracts the coding. Great for rapid prototypes, you can prompt a functional application into parallel agents processing databases, connecting APIs, and testing systems on a production server. Supported by a developer community and forums. antigravity.md Community Documentation |
How to create a project with Antigravityπ Building a project with Googleβs agentic development ecosystem requires shifting from writing code line-by-line to orchestrating an autonomous AI agent. In this workflow, your primary tools are the Antigravity IDE (Google's VS Code fork) and declarative context files like AGENTS.md and GEMINI.md. The following step-by-step example demonstrates how to build a Real-Time Personal Dashboard that aggregates weather, task lists, and AI-driven news summaries using React, Tailwind CSS, and Gemini 3.5 Flash. Environment Setup. The first step is to prepare the enviroment for app, configure the background agents tasks, what stack to use, and where they are restricted from changing the source code. For example: Create a new folder on your computer: mkdir personal-project && cd personal-project.
Open Antigravity IDE and open that folder. In the root directory, create two foundational configuration files GEMINI.md and AGENTS.md. These files tell Antigravity's agents how to write code, perform test, and act in the allowed workspace.
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GEMINI.mdGEMINI.md Markdown ## Project Context
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AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md Markdown ## Agent Permissions
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Agent Panelπ» The Agent Panel is used to Orchestrate and manage the agents. You can review the work and save the Agent. Once your configuration files, and move over to the Agent Side Panel (the primary mission control interface on the right side of the IDE). For example, rather than executing standard chat autocomplete prompts, provide a broad execution directive. Prompt: "Scaffold a responsive personal dashboard using React, Vite, and Tailwind. Include three distinct grid components: 1. Weather Card (mock data fetching from open-meteo). 2. Google Tasks Mock Card (adding/completing text items). 3. Daily News Summarizer Card (use Gemini 3.5 Flash to categorize a hardcoded sample array of current headlines into 'Urgent', 'Tech', and 'Lifestyle'). Ensure the styling is clean dark-mode." |
Agent Artifactsπ§Ύ Reviewing the Agent's Artifacts. Unlike classic code assistants that write a block of text into your chat box, Antigravity perform that task asynchronously in the background. It will populate an Artifacts View in your workspace: [ ANTIGRAVITY AGENT TRACKER ] Task List ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββΊ [β] Read configuration Implementation Plan ββββββββββββββββββββΊ [!] Awaiting Approval Code Diffs βββββββββββββββββββββββββββββΊ [ ] Pending Execution Review the Task List: The agent creates a step-by-step task breakdown (e.g., Step 1: Run npm create vite, Step 2: Install Tailwind dependencies, Step 3: Setup Gemini processing helper). Approve the Implementation Plan: The developer must click "Approve Plan" on the generated artifact window, and the agent will open its integrated terminal, run the package installations, structure the directories, and populate the code files. Inspect the Diffs: You can review the files populate natively in the file explorer. If some component is incorrect, then it highlight the code block and prompt: "Fix this card padding to match standard Tailwind grid spaces," and the agent will adjust its plan. |
Agent VerificationβοΈ Verification and Iteration: Once the agent completes its walkthrough artifact, it spins up a local host server automatically inside Antigravity's integrated test browser. Check the Screen Capture: The agent takes automated before/after snapshots of the UI to ensure everything rendered correctly. Add Features via "Vibe Coding": While looking at the running dashboard, you can issue conversational tweaks. For instance, type into the agent panel: "Add a motivational quote banner right across the header that changes dynamically based on the time of day. "The system runs a background subagent that write that clock logic, maps out the exact code diff, and injects the UI banner without you writing a line of JavaScript. Approve to Production: Once the developer is satisfied with the state of the dashboard, can terminate the agent session and run npm run build from your workspace terminal to export your clean, agent-built production code. Review the costs and perform optimization in the process, because the agentic workflows require the AI to constantly read files, execute terminal commands, and catch its own bugs, and this tasks are expensive and spend through tokens at a massive rate. Engineering updates focus on optimizing token efficiency to stop loops and prevent developers from hitting severe rate limits. |
Antigravity Development Environmentsπ§© Antigravity includes a group of powerfull tools in the same development enviroment: Android Studio - Is the official IDE for Android development, supporting Kotlin and Java. - Includes features with AI-assisted coding, real-time debugging, and performance profiling. Angular - Is a powerful JavaScript framework for building scalable web applications. - Supports TypeScript, dependency injection, and component-based architecture. Flutter - Is a cross-platform UI toolkit for building native mobile, web, and desktop applications. - Uses Dart programming language for fast and expressive UI development. Issues and solutions: The Lost History Bug causes past conversation histories to can vanish from the sidebar index when the IDE terminates abruptly. Can be resolved with scripts (like antigravity-conversation-fix) to rebuild the local SQLite index files from raw .pb or .db logs. |