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Start Your Antigravity Deny List From Your Own Shell History
Before you let an agent drive your terminal, decide the first commands for the Deny list by counting your own shell history. A short script, a three-box sorting table, and a throwaway-repo test to confirm the rules actually bite.
I Counted My Rules Against the 20,000-Token Budget in Antigravity 2.17.0 Before Upgrading
Antigravity 2.17.0 gives rules their own 20,000-token budget. My six operating rule files came to 28,613 tokens, so the two largest would be demoted to pointers. Here is a small script to count yours first, and how I chose what to demote myself.
Wait or Pay When the Baseline Runs Out: Deciding Credit Overages Per Task
When your baseline quota is exhausted, one setting decides whether you wait for the refresh or spend purchased credits. Here is how I split attended work from unattended runs, and the small gate I put in front of the jobs nobody is watching.
When an agent ends without a reason, I check the page's character encoding first
A page handed to ReadURL can end an Antigravity agent with nothing but Agent execution terminated. Here is how I tell those pages apart before handing them over, and why I now fetch and re-encode first.
When You Cannot Decide Between Rules and Skills: Rethinking Where Instructions Live
Rules and Skills load at different moments in Antigravity. Rules go in full on every turn; Skills lead with a heading and load the rest on demand. After the same note drifted apart in two places on a client site, here are the questions I use to place an instruction, plus a small script to measure what you carry each turn.
Why Filename Search Misses Every Error String in Your Repo
Antigravity 2.12 improved partial filename search. Measuring name lookups against full-text search across a 2,088-file repository, the reading cost differed by 67x and error strings hit filenames only 4.5% of the time. Here is where the line actually falls.
Redrawing Your Workspace Boundary Now That Review Mode Auto-Approves Reads
Antigravity CLI 1.1.20 made in-workspace reads auto-approved in review mode. Here is what I found when I actually counted what became readable across two real working trees.
Choosing a Remote Control Host Machine Comes Down to Daemon Lifetime and Revocation Paths
What to settle before you flip on Remote Control in Antigravity 2.0: how the headless daemon behaves per OS, why there are two separate sign-out paths, and how to inventory the read surface on a candidate host machine.
Count What Writes Outside Your Workspace Before You Upgrade to CLI 1.1.14
Antigravity CLI 1.1.14 makes paths outside the workspace read-only by default. If your source assets and delivery targets live outside the repository, it is worth knowing what breaks before you upgrade. Here is a script that inventories your write targets, and the two ways it quietly undercounts them.
How Much Slower Search Gets When /codesearch Cannot Run ripgrep
Antigravity CLI 1.1.13 moved the bundled ripgrep binary, and /codesearch quietly falls back to local search when it cannot run. I measured the cost of that fallback on a real repository and wrote down how to tell which path your machine is on.
Deleting Duplicate Rows Will Not Shrink Your Antigravity CLI Conversation Database
A schema-agnostic way to audit conversation database growth, plus measurements showing why deletion reclaims nothing and why freelist_count is the wrong number to trust when you estimate how much you can get back.
Running Antigravity CLI 1.1.13 on a Machine You Cannot Sign In From
I put agy on a box with no browser and the sign-in screen stopped me cold. Here is how direct GEMINI_API_KEY auth from CLI 1.1.13 works, how to confirm it took effect, and why you should not hand it the key your app already uses.