# Google Antigravity Editor - Tips & Tricks

Author: [Mete Atamel](https://atamel.dev/) | Published: 2025-12-01 | Topics: GenAI, Antigravity, Google Cloud Platform | Canonical: https://atamel.dev/posts/2025/12-01_antigravity_editor_tips/


![Google Antigravity Tips and Tricks](/img/2025/antigravity_tips_and_tricks.png)

[Google Antigravity](https://antigravity.google/) 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:

![Antigravity IDE](/img/2025/antigravity_ide.png)

If this is not the case, you can toggle terminal and agent panels as follows:

* To toggle the terminal panel, use the `Ctrl` + `` ` `` shortcut.
* To toggle the agent panel, use the `Cmd` + `L` shortcut.

Additionally, Antigravity can install some extensions during setup but depending on the programming language you're
using, you probably need to install more extensions.

For example, for Python development, these are the extensions I have installed:

![Antigravity extensions](/img/2025/antigravity_python_extensions.png)

## Editor

Let's see how the editor can help us with our coding.

### Auto-complete

As you type code in the editor, a smart auto-complete kicks in that you can simply tab in:

![Antigravity autocomplete](/img/2025/antigravity_autocomplete.png)

### Tab to import

You get **tab to import** suggestion to add missing dependencies:

![Antigravity tab to import](/img/2025/antigravity_tabtoimport.png)

### Tab to jump

You get **tab to jump** suggestion to get the cursor to the next logical place in the code:

![Antigravity tab to jump](/img/2025/antigravity_tabtojump.png)

### Commands

You can trigger commands with `Cmd` + `I` in the editor or terminal for inline completions using natural language.

In the editor, you can ask for a method to calculate Fibonacci numbers and then accept or reject it:

![Antigravity command editor](/img/2025/antigravity_command_editor.png)

In the terminal, you can get terminal command suggestions:

![Antigravity command terminal](/img/2025/antigravity_command_terminal.png)

## Agent Side Panel

From the editor, you can toggle the agent side panel in multiple ways.

### Manual open

You can manually toggle the agent panel with the `Cmd` + `L` shortcut and start asking questions about
the code.

You can start asking questions, use `@` to include more context such as files, directories, MCP servers, or use `/` to refer
to a workflow (a saved prompt):

![Antigravity agent side panel](/img/2025/antigravity_agent_sidepanel1.png)

You can also choose between two conversation modes: `Fast` or `Planning` :

![Antigravity agent side panel](/img/2025/antigravity_agent_sidepanel2.png)

Fast is recommended for quick tasks whereas Planning is recommended for more complex tasks where the agent creates a
plan that you can approve.

You can also choose different models for the conversation:

![Antigravity agent side panel](/img/2025/antigravity_agent_sidepanel3.png)

### Explain and fix

Another way of triggering the agent is to hover over a problem and selecting `Explain and fix`:

![Antigravity explain and fix](/img/2025/antigravity_explainandfix.png)

### Send problems to agent

You can also go to the `Problems` section and select `Send all to Agent` to get the agent to try to fix those problems:

![Antigravity send problems to agent](/img/2025/antigravity_sendproblemstoagent.png)

### Send terminal output to agent

You can even select a part of the terminal output and send it to the agent with `Cmd` + `L`:

![Antigravity send terminal to agent](/img/2025/antigravity_sendterminaltoagent.png)

## Conclusion

In this blog post, we explored the Antigravity code editor in more detail and showed you different ways the editor and
the agent can help with your coding. For more information, check out the documentation and our codelab:

* [Google Antigravity](https://antigravity.google/)
* [Codelab: Getting Started with Google Antigravity](https://codelabs.developers.google.com/getting-started-google-antigravity)