Antigravity

Google Antigravity transforms your regular IDE into an agentic development platform. In my previous blog posts, I showed some of the unique features of Antigravity compared to a regular IDE. In today’s blog post, I’ll talk about what makes Antigravity truly unique: Its ability to spin up and manage multiple agents.

Antigravity modes

Antigravity has two modes: Editor and Agent Manager.

Editor is your familiar IDE with an agent on the side to help you with tasks. You can read more about it in my previous blog post Google Antigravity Editor - Tips & Tricks and learn how to provide feedback to the agent in Provide Feedback to Google Antigravity and how to customize it in Customize Google Antigravity with rules and workflows.

At the heart of Google Antigravity is its ability to effortlessly gather your feedback at every stage of the experience. In this blog post, I will show you all the different ways you can provide feedback to Antigravity.

As the agent works on a task, it creates different artifacts along the way:

• An implementation plan and a task list (before coding)
• Code diffs (as it generates code)
• A walkthrough to verify the results (after coding)

These artifacts are a way for Antigravity to communicate its plans and progress. More importantly, they’re also a way for you to provide feedback to the agent in Google docs style comments. This is very useful to effectively steer the agent in the direction you want.

Google Antigravity is an agentic development platform where you have your familiar code editor along with a powerful agent on the side. In today’s post, I want to show you some tips and tricks for the code editor.

Setup and Extensions

In a typical setup, you’d have the editor, the terminal, and the agent visible:

Google Antigravity was announced last week as the next generation agentic IDE. I’m very impressed with it so far. It already helped me to upgrade my blog to the latest Hugo (that I’ve been putting off for a long time). It even recognized that some of the shortcodes (eg. Twitter) from the old version changed in the new version and automatically updated my blog posts with the new version of the shortcodes. Nice!