---
type: entity
subtype: tool
title: "Google Antigravity"
description: "Google's agentic coding environment pairing a traditional IDE with an agent-manager surface and Chrome integration, used as an alternative harness for running Gemini models."
tags: [ai-coding, coding-agent]
videos: [claude-plans-gemini-designs-the-workflow-to-build-beautiful-frontends, the-way-we-use-ai-will-completely-change-in-2026-hot-takes, is-gemini-3-really-the-best-ai-ever]
created: 2026-07-21
updated: 2026-07-21
---

# Google Antigravity

Google Antigravity is Google's agentic coding environment, and in Cole's telling it is the clearest shipped example of the interface that replaces the code-centric IDE: "[0:01:03] we're already starting to see this with Google's anti-gravity, for example. They have a traditional IDE component, but they also have this agent manager." Both halves matter. The editor is still there when you want to read source, but the center of gravity moves to a manager surface where you dispatch agents at features and review their output the way you review a pull request.

Its second defining trait is that the browser is part of the product, not a bolt-on: "[0:13:59] Google's anti-gravity... they have Google Chrome directly integrated in the IDE now. So... it can autonomously spin up your website, visit it, scroll through it, take screenshots." That turns the agent's own eyes into the validation instrument, which is why Cole uses Antigravity as evidence for a broader claim in the Gemini 3 video: a big share of the felt improvement in AI coding comes from the harness layered on top of the model, not the model weights alone.

Third, it is simply a place to run Gemini. In the provider-mixing frontend workflow, the design step slots into whatever harness can drive Gemini 3.5 Flash, and Antigravity is one of the interchangeable options: "[0:15:17] if you want to use anti-gravity instead, using Gemini 3.5 flash here, you can just start up a new project in whatever codebase you're creating this front end." The workflow does not depend on it, which is exactly the point of keeping steps in separate sessions.

## Realizes

- [AI Coding Harness](../../concepts/ai-coding-harness.md) - The surrounding scaffolding (prompts, tools, rules, validation) that turns a raw model into a reliable coding system.
- [Parallel Agentic Coding](../../concepts/parallel-agentic-coding.md) - Dispatching agents to background tasks in isolation, each returning a reviewable unit of work, which is what the agent-manager surface exists to run.
- [Visual Self-Validation Loop](../../concepts/visual-self-validation.md) - Letting an agent render its own output, look at the screenshot, and fix what it sees, which the built-in Chrome makes native.
- [Computer Use](../../concepts/computer-use.md) - Giving an agent control of real software (here a browser) so it can operate it the way a person would.
- [AI Coding Assistant UX Patterns](../../concepts/ai-coding-ux.md) - The interaction surface of a coding assistant, which Antigravity shifts from editing code to managing agents.
- [The Evolution of AI Coding](../../concepts/the-evolution-of-ai-coding.md) - How AI coding tools moved from autocomplete to autonomous systems, and where the landscape is heading.

## Contrasts with

- [Visual Studio Code](./vs-code.md) - The traditional source-first IDE whose interface Antigravity keeps but demotes below the agent manager.
- [Cursor](./cursor.md) - The AI IDE cited alongside it as another early agent-manager surface rather than an editor with completions.
- [Claude Code](./claude-code.md) - The terminal-native harness Cole drives most, reached from the opposite direction (no IDE at all).

## Works with

- [Gemini 3.5 Flash](./gemini-3-5-flash.md) - The cheap, design-strong model Cole runs inside it for the UI step of the frontend workflow.
- [Gemini 3](./gemini-3.md) - The model whose browser-driven frontend verification Cole demos through Antigravity's Chrome integration.
- [Vercel Agent Browser CLI](./agent-browser.md) - The standalone equivalent of that built-in browser control, usable from any harness.

## Related

- [Codex](./codex.md) - Listed with it as an early parallel agent-manager surface for reviewing agent output remotely.
- [Cline](./cline.md) - Source of the real-task eval push in the same video, arguing tooling and models must be judged together.
- [Real-World Coding Benchmarks](../../concepts/coding-benchmarks.md) - Evaluating models on real engineering tasks, the reason Cole credits the harness rather than the benchmark jump.
- [Remote Agentic Coding](../../concepts/remote-agentic-coding.md) - Kicking work off from anywhere to agents running elsewhere, the natural extension of the manager view.
- [Provider Independence](../../concepts/provider-independence.md) - Keeping steps swappable so a harness like this is an option, never a dependency.

## Sources

- [The Way We Use AI Will Completely Change in 2026 (Hot Takes)](../../sources/the-way-we-use-ai-will-completely-change-in-2026-hot-takes.md) - "[0:01:03] we're already starting to see this with Google's anti-gravity, for example. They have a traditional IDE component, but they also have this agent manager"
- [The Way We Use AI Will Completely Change in 2026 (Hot Takes)](../../sources/the-way-we-use-ai-will-completely-change-in-2026-hot-takes.md) - "[0:13:59] Google's anti-gravity... they have Google Chrome directly integrated in the IDE now. So... it can autonomously spin up your website, visit it, scroll through it, take screenshots"
- [Claude Plans, Gemini Designs: The Workflow to Build BEAUTIFUL Frontends](../../sources/claude-plans-gemini-designs-the-workflow-to-build-beautiful-frontends.md) - "[0:15:17] if you want to use anti-gravity instead, using Gemini 3.5 flash here, you can just start up a new project in whatever codebase you're creating this front end"
- [Is Gemini 3 Really the Best AI Ever?](../../sources/is-gemini-3-really-the-best-ai-ever.md)
