Keeping Naming and Formatting Stable When Your Model Falls Back
When a model falls back mid-run, an agent's naming conventions and formatting drift quietly. Here is how I enforce a model-independent style contract plus a drift probe to keep output consistent.
The Day the Article I Asked It to Format Became the Agent's Instructions
When you run an unattended content-formatting pipeline with Antigravity CLI, instruction-like text buried in the file you are processing can hijack the agent. Here is how I separate the instruction channel from the data channel and add an output-scope acceptance gate to reject anything out of bounds.
Before Desktop and CLI Drift Apart: Put Agent Steps in One Versioned File
As Antigravity 2.0 multiplies entry points across desktop, CLI, and SDK, the instructions for the same task slowly diverge per surface. As an indie developer running several sites on autopilot, I lay out a design that consolidates the steps into a single versioned file each surface merely reads.
Rotate Keys Without Stopping an Unattended Agent: An Overlap-Window Design
API keys and tokens are worth rotating on a schedule before they leak. But an unattended agent goes quietly dead the moment auth breaks during the swap. As an indie developer running several sites on autopilot, I lay out an overlap-window design that rotates keys without downtime.
When Your Agent Automation Breaks: How Many Minutes to Recovery?
As Antigravity 2.0 adds desktop, CLI, and SDK surfaces, the things you must restore after a failure multiply too. As an indie developer running several sites on autopilot, I lay out a three-layer recovery design covering credentials, definitions, and state, plus a monthly restore drill.
Why Antigravity Agents Build Your Xcode Project Fine One Day and Break It the Next on a Synced Folder
Put an Xcode project inside a Dropbox-synced folder, hand it to an Antigravity agent, and builds start passing and failing at random. Here is the real cause — sync daemon versus build — and how to fix it with xattr exclusion and a conflict-copy preflight.
Turning a throwaway prompt into a reusable sub-agent
When a one-off prompt to an Antigravity 2.0 dynamic sub-agent works beautifully, it usually vanishes into your chat history. Here is how to capture it as a reusable definition, with the actual file layout and the distillation steps.
Before a Major Update Silently Breaks Your Overnight Automation — Designing a Staged-Adoption Canary Gate
After a major update dropped my unattended run success rate from about 98% to 63% overnight, I built a staged-adoption gate that freezes the working setup, verifies a new version against a golden output in an isolated profile, and only then adopts it. Here is the design with bash and Python.
Combining All Four Antigravity Surfaces in One Project — Up to Running Your Own SDK Agent
How to split a single project across Antigravity 2.0, CLI, IDE, and SDK, and how to bridge between them — from diverging on design to converging on production, all the way to running a small custom agent with the Python SDK, with implementation included.
Antigravity 2.0, CLI, IDE, SDK — Weaving All Four Surfaces Through a Real Project
Antigravity ships as a desktop app, a CLI, an IDE, and a Python SDK. Beyond picking one, this guide shows how to weave all four across a single project — with a headless-execution wrapper for automation, plus the cost and migration traps to sidestep.
Running Pre-Release Checks Without Opening the IDE — Designing the Android CLI as the Verification Gate of an Unattended Pipeline
How to slot Android CLI v1.0 into an unattended pipeline as its verification gate — three layers of checks, an exit-code contract, and a density-by-locale matrix, sized for an indie developer's day-to-day.
Before a Stray Instruction in a Fetched Page Drives Your Unattended Agent — Tainting Inputs to Downgrade Capabilities
So an unattended agent that reads external pages or PDFs can't be hijacked by an instruction hidden inside them: track the taint of every input and automatically downgrade side-effecting tools. With working Python and real operational numbers.