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Pointing GOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL at Your Own Gateway Does Not Change Who Holds the Key
I pointed the Antigravity CLI at a gateway of my own and recorded exactly which credentials travelled with it. Authorization is dropped across a cross-origin redirect, but the API key header survives every hop. Here is the measurement, and how I moved the key off my laptop.
Snapshot Your Agents' Effective Scope So You Notice the Day a Default Changes
Antigravity 1.1.25 made Markdown-defined custom agents inherit the surrounding skills, rules, and subagents by default. Here is the snapshot-and-diff routine I now use to check whether an agent I meant to keep narrow quietly got wider after an update.
The Five Days Between the iOS 27 RC and Release — I Check Init Order and Entitlement Restore Before Layout
A record of how I narrow the agent's search scope during the short window before an OS release — by launch path rather than by screen. Includes the audit script I run to catch consent and ads init ordering, entitlement restore gaps, and hardcoded size branches.
A dependency without musllinux wheels doesn't fail on Alpine. It just gets slower
On Alpine, a dependency without musllinux wheels can quietly fall back to pure Python. Protobuf went from 0.043ms to 36.2ms, and pip reported no error.
How much of Antigravity's generated commit message I actually keep
Where the Review pane's generated commit message stops being enough, and where I start writing. A prepare-commit-msg hook that adds a Why trailer, plus measured behaviour during rebase, cherry-pick and revert.
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.
The work-root guard I run before letting an agent near several repositories
When several repositories share one machine, an agent's working root is remarkably easy to mix up. Here is a small guard that compares resolved paths, tested against seven inputs.
When YAML frontmatter rewrites your values without raising an error
Antigravity 2.11.0 renders frontmatter as a formatted card. Chasing the one file that refused to become a card turned up five patterns that parse cleanly but change the value. Here are the measured rules and a 40-line checker.
Write Hundreds of Files in One Burst, or Space Them Out?
When an agent generates hundreds of files, the slowness usually is not the writing. It is the rescans on the watcher side. I measured four write patterns so you can decide where to batch.
One Argument Now Switches Your Model in Antigravity CLI — and Rewrites Your Default Too
In CLI v1.1.22, /model takes an argument, switches instantly, and saves that model as your default in the same stroke. Here is the forget-to-switch-back trap that comes with it, and the start-of-session habit that fixed it for me.
Why I took the show-or-not decision away from every dialog
A paywall prompt, a review request and a rewarded-ad confirmation landed on the same frame. Here is how I moved the show-or-not decision out of each dialog into a single gate, how I rewrote the agent instructions as invariants, and how a CI check keeps it that way.
Before You Narrow the Page Range in Antigravity 2.11.0, Find Your Resolution Floor
I measured the new page range and MediaResolution options in view_file against a 240-page document. Resolution moved the numbers more than the page range did, and setting it too low drops words without raising a single error.