Four Reasons Your .antigravityignore Rules Are Not Taking Effect
Rules that quietly do nothing, and rules that swallow the whole repository. Here are four causes behind both, each checked one at a time against a gitignore-style matcher.
The Cleanup Step Removed the Working Directory, Not Its Contents — Making Unattended Destruction Fail Closed
An unattended cleanup step deleted the working directory itself instead of what was inside it. Here is why the mkdir -p that followed was not a safety net, and how a defensive-looking default value ended up selecting the destructive branch, with the actual verification output.
A Triage Order for WebP and Opus Attachments That Never Reach the Agent
Hub 2.9.1 added WebP attachments on August 20, and CLI 1.1.17 fixed Ogg-family audio being rejected by the model on the same day. Here is why rejection happens on the sending side rather than in the file, with the MIME results I actually measured.
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.
Why I Check Description Overlap Before Turning On inheritCustomizations
CLI 1.1.14 collapsed markdown agent inheritance into a single inheritCustomizations switch. Here is what happened when I actually inventoried the 47 skills in my workspace and decided the switch on description overlap rather than on context size.
When Antigravity Swaps Its Default Model, Only the Jobs You Narrowed First Survive
Gemini 3.7 Flash is now the default model for Antigravity agents. The places you never configured are exactly the places that shift silently. Here is how to inventory your default-model exposure, then split your jobs into move-now and hold, scored by how much output freedom you left open.
When Antigravity Holds a Dozen Projects: How I Stopped Hunting for Yesterday's Conversation
As Antigravity projects pile up, the conversation sidebar turns into a morning scrolling ritual. Now that 2.8.0 remembers collapsed state, here is how I reworked project granularity, conversation naming, and launch flags.
How Far to Narrow an Agent's Choices in a 30-Category Wallpaper Classification Pipeline
Asking an agent to pick one of 30 categories per image means re-running every image the moment a definition changes. Here is the reasoning and the implementation behind switching to closed-vocabulary tags plus a deterministic rule mapping.
When a Fast Model Feels Slow, Look at Reasoning Effort Before Switching Models
Antigravity lets you pick a reasoning effort level per model. Here is how I decide between Low, Medium, and High based on the shape of the task, what to check when changing it makes no difference, and a small script for correcting your own judgment with records instead of memory.
I Stopped Eyeballing Agent Diffs, and the 2.8.0 View Limits Are Why
Version 2.8.0 caps how much of a file and how much of a large history diff you can view. Losing the ability to scroll to the end forced a better split: let a script decide what machines can catch, and spend human attention only on what they cannot. Includes a working script and the defects it found in a real repository.
2.6.0 Changed How Hooks Wait. A Triage Order for Turns That Never Finish
When an agent turn never finishes, the cause is often a hook you wrote rather than the model. Here is what changed in IDE 2.6.0, an audit script that finds hooks capable of stalling a turn, and how to give a hook its own cutoff.
Guarding the Turn Boundary in Non-Interactive Runs: A Command Table and a Fail-Closed Gate
A scheduled job meant only to record usage was calling the model on every run. Here is how I split commands into ones that start a turn and ones that do not, built a gate that refuses anything unclassified, and measured it against real scripts.