An important update: Transitioning Gemini CLI to Antigravity CLI

Today, we are announcing a major evolution for our terminal-based AI assistant. The Gemini CLI is officially transitioning to the Antigravity CLI, bringing a new class of agentic coding capabilities directly to your command line.

Why Antigravity?

Originally designed as a straightforward interface to interact with Google’s Gemini models, the CLI has grown far beyond a simple wrapper. The team at Google DeepMind working on Advanced Agentic Coding has rebuilt the core execution engine to support fully autonomous, agentic workflows. To reflect this shift from a passive model interface to an active, anti-gravitational force that lifts your coding productivity, we are renaming the tool to Antigravity.

What’s New in Antigravity CLI?

The transition introduces several cutting-edge features designed to make pair programming with an AI feel seamless and incredibly powerful:

• First-Class MCP Integration: Antigravity natively speaks the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It can seamlessly connect to local and remote MCP servers (like WordPress, Chrome DevTools, database tools, and custom APIs), allowing the AI to read and write data across your ecosystem.
• Structured Planning Mode: When tackling complex modifications, Antigravity doesn’t just write code. It researches the task, designs an implementation_plan.md for your review, tracks progress via task.md, and provides a visual walkthrough.md showing the exact diffs and results.
• Background Subagents: Need to run a long search or debug a database in parallel? Antigravity can spin up background subagents to do the heavy lifting while you keep coding.
• Enhanced Terminal Interactions: Supports interactive modal prompts, custom slash commands (like /goal, /schedule, and /browser), and full visual feedback.

How to Transition

We’ve made the migration process as frictionless as possible. If you are already using the Gemini CLI, your configuration settings will transition automatically:

• Config Migration: The CLI will automatically check your existing .gemini/config/ directory to load your user settings and MCP server connections.
• New Executable: You will now invoke the CLI using the antigravity command. You can update your package using:

  npm install -g @google/antigravity-cli

• Workspace Settings: You can manage your projects and permissions within the same workspace configurations seamlessly.

The Future of Agentic Coding

We believe the command line is the ultimate workspace for developer-AI collaboration. By moving from a conversational model to an agentic execution system, Antigravity CLI is designed to do the work with you—handling the boilerplate, running test suites, configuring integrations, and verifying changes—so you can focus on building.

Update to the latest version today and experience the power of Advanced Agentic Coding!