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.
The Line I Thought Matched Nothing Was Approving Everything: Auditing Empty Allowlist Entries
Allowlist entries that decompose to zero command words matched every command and silently auto-approved it. Here is how I scanned my own config, separated the hole the fix closed from the one it did not, and rewrote matching to a prefix-token comparison.
Seven Characters Don't Only Point at Commits — Measuring When Your Agent's Recorded Hashes Stop Resolving
Short commit hashes recorded by an agent quietly stop resolving as a repository grows. Measuring where ambiguity begins, fixing the recording side, and building a batch verification gate.
Reading the Same History in 38 Seconds — or 0.4: Handing a Read-Only .git to Your Agent
Antigravity CLI 1.1.10 lets the sandbox read .git without write access. I built a per-session history summary two ways, measured a roughly 100x speed gap, traced it to process spawn cost, and added a guard for shallow clones that silently corrupt the numbers.
Startup Dropped to 3ms, and the First Turn Saw Zero Tools
Non-blocking MCP loading cut startup from 2,907ms to 3ms. The wait did not disappear — it moved into the first turn. Here is where it went, measured, plus a readiness gate that waits only for what a turn actually needs.
I Copied the Same agent.md Into Another Repo and It Quietly Did a Different Job
CLI 1.1.6 lets you carry agent definitions around as files. I dropped one definition into eight repos, built a preflight that resolves its declared capabilities before the agent runs, and measured it against a naive checker.
Who Approved the Right Side of &&? Splitting Shell Commands Before Matching Allow Rules
The approval dialog showed part of what actually ran. Here is a harness that splits compound shell commands without breaking quotes or command substitution, matches allow rules per segment, and the numbers from running it over 45 real commands.
Routing /effort by Task Class in Antigravity CLI: Six Weeks of Measurements
I built a small router that picks an /effort level from the shape of the task, then aggregated six weeks of run logs. Here is where raising effort helped, where it actively hurt, and what mattered more than effort.
Running a Solo AI Studio with Antigravity × Google AI — Automating Every Stage of App Development as One Developer
How to combine Antigravity 2.0 and Antigravity CLI with Stitch and Veo 3 into a pipeline that takes an app from design through implementation, testing, asset generation, and App Store submission, driven by one developer. Covers where to delegate to agents and the operational pitfalls.
The Morning It Wrote Outside the Working Folder: Vetting Every Write Path in One Function
Antigravity CLI 1.1.3 closed a bug where always-proceed mode silently auto-approved writes outside the workspace. Here is a small guard that vets every write path with nothing but path canonicalization and a containment check, plus an escape-attempt test suite.