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✦ Tips & Best Practices/2026-09-22Beginner

Don't Leave Your Chat Records to the Export Button — Three Routes for the Night It Does Nothing

Three ways to keep a record of your Antigravity conversations when the Export button does nothing at all: how to tell a broken button from a silent success, how to locate the conversation file in your own environment by modification time, and how to decide what to keep before the session ends.

⟐ Editor View/2026-09-21Intermediate

The Night Red Squiggles Filled My MCP Config, and What I Checked Before Editing

Red squiggles across your MCP config don't mean the servers are down. Schema validation in the editor answers a different question than the runtime does. Here's the order I now follow, starting with the status rings in /mcp.

⬡ Integrations/2026-09-20Intermediate

antigravity-preview-05-2026 shuts down October 5: which setups need more than a string swap

The shutdown date for antigravity-preview-05-2026 is set for October 5, and the official page gives you the date and the successor name, nothing more. If you only read output_text, swapping the string is the whole migration. If you read steps, it is not.

▣ App Development/2026-09-19Beginner

I Asked for the Whole Quote PDF Tool at Once, Then Split It Into Four Requests

How I moved my client quote paperwork from copy-and-edit to a small PDF tool built with Antigravity, why the first single-shot request had to be thrown away, and the four smaller requests that replaced it, with working code.

⬡ Integrations/2026-09-18Intermediate

When a session starts with MCP tools missing, where do you stop?

When MCP initialization fails at startup, the agent quietly falls back to other means and keeps going. Here is a small script that asks your servers directly which tools they expose, plus the three branches I decided on in advance for when something is missing.

◉ Antigravity Basics/2026-09-17Intermediate

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.

⟐ Editor View/2026-09-17Advanced

How Far to Chase a VS Code Extension That Open VSX Doesn't Carry

Why your settings come across to Antigravity but your extensions don't, how to reconcile the gap with a script, and how to decide between a substitute, a pinned VSIX, moving the job outside the editor, or swapping the registry.

✦ Tips & Best Practices/2026-09-16Beginner

The Day the Upload to Agent Overlay Took Every Drop, and How I Got File Handling Back

A full-window Upload to Agent overlay intercepts every drop, so files never reach the integrated terminal or the explorer sidebar. Here are the two workarounds the community found, plus three ways to hand over a path without dragging.

◉ Antigravity Basics/2026-09-15Intermediate

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.

⚙ AI Tools/2026-09-15Advanced

The Day I Stopped Splitting by Skill — Three Questions for Routing Work Between Antigravity CLI and Claude Code

An unattended job sat waiting on an approval prompt for three days without a single error line. Here is how I stopped dividing work between two agent CLIs by capability, and started dividing it by where the approval boundary falls.

⚙ AI Tools/2026-09-14Intermediate

The October 16 date I could not find — taking stock of Gemini model shutdown dates yourself

A widely repeated shutdown date for the Gemini 2.5 family is not on the official deprecations page. Here is how I pull every model ID out of a repository and reconcile it against a ledger I maintain myself, with working scripts.

◉ Antigravity Basics/2026-09-13Intermediate

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.