Giving Your Antigravity AI Agents a 'Time Budget' — A Production Scheduling Design That Unifies Timeouts, Priorities, and Deadlines
Your AI agent's response time creeps up, users drop off, and unexpected costs pile on. Here is how I give Antigravity agents a single 'Time Budget' object that unifies timeouts, priority, and deadlines, plus the traps I hit after half a year in production.
Don't Build Your Own Peak: Time-Spreading Background Agent Schedules
Antigravity 2.0's desktop auto-schedules tasks in the background. Convenient, but cluster them at round hours and you build your own peak, and the late-night jobs fail together. Here is a design that spreads times and bans overlap, with real results.
Keeping Unattended Agent Run Logs Long Enough to Debug — Without Filling the Disk
A scheduled agent is only fixable if you can reconstruct why it failed. Here is how to keep run logs around without filling the disk — tiered retention, schema-versioned records, and a compaction job — drawn from running four sites on autopilot as an indie developer.
Don't Lose Failed Agent Jobs: Designing a Dead-Letter and Requeue Path
Scheduled agents fail silently overnight and the work simply vanishes. Here is how to catch those failures with a dead-letter store and a staged requeue, drawn from running four sites on autopilot as an indie developer.
Scheduling an autonomous agent fleet to run 6 sites solo — a timetable that avoids collisions and spam flags
A real example of the autonomous-agent scheduling I built to run 6 sites and an app business in parallel, solo: off-peak distribution, a daily generation cap, and collision avoidance, drawn from the actual timetable and the reasoning behind it.