Google Antigravity is an incredible new VS Code–based, agent-first IDE: it lets you give higher-level goals and have agents plan, edit files, run commands, and use a browser—while producing text, image, and even video artifacts you can review to verify exactly what happened.

Let's learn how you can start making the most of all the innovative features it has to offer in your day-to-day workflow as a developer.

Become a much faster, more powerful developer.

Antigravity is available for all desktop platforms.

On first launch, you’ll usually land in the Agent Manager (the orchestration view), not just an editor window.

You'll find a screen like this on first launch -- very similar to what you get from VS Code, so you feel right at home.

This is one area where Antigravity innovates and stands out from the rest.

Antigravity centers your work around two surfaces:

Agent Manager (Mission Control)

This is where you start “missions,” assign tasks to agents, and monitor multiple agents or threads. It’s the place to describe outcomes like “build a feature” or “refactor the app” rather than “change this one line.

Editor view (hands-on coding)

Your normal IDE view: browse files, edit directly, run local tooling, and inspect code. Antigravity is VS Code–based, so the editor feels familiar.

These two exist in separate windows -- so you can use your normal Alt+Tab or Command+` to switch between them.

A reliable first workflow looks like this:

Select your project folder.

In the Agent Panel, use a prompt like: “Create a web app for saving cooking recipes, with three pages and minimalist styling, using vanilla html, css, and javascript”.

The agent will generate a Planning Artifact (a checklist of subtasks). Review and click Accept.

The agent will scaffold the files, install dependencies in the terminal, and write the logic.

The agent will open an integrated window to click buttons and verify everything works as intended.

Check the generated screenshots and recordings to ensure the ensure it matches your expectations (more on this in the next session).

Definitely one of the most game-changing Antigravity features.

❌ Before:

Agent tells you its progress and train of thought with just text.

✅ Now in Antigravity:

Agent tells you its progress in a multimodal way:

and so much more.

It's a much more intuitive way to let you know what the agent did and why.

For example, look at the video Antigravity created when testing the web app I told it to create:

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