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15 Essential Google Antigravity Tips and Tricks: Complete Guide in 2025

1 Basics Tutorial

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Google Antigravity has a lot of features, both familiar and new. Kevin from the engineering team walks through the basics in the official 101 tutorial, covering onboarding, agent manager, editor, browser integration, artifacts, and building a simple flight tracker app.

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2 Integrating with Nano Banana for Images

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To add images to your website using Antigravity, prompt the agent to generate real images with Nano Banana Pro integrated. The agent will create and place the images onto the website automatically, making it super simple.

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3 How to Use Without Getting Lost

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Start by installing the Antigravity browser extension for agent control. Create a new folder for your project, prompt to build a TypeScript React app with a simple landing page using Gemini 3 Pro. Use the agent manager for workspaces, watch live rendering and recordings, and iterate with feedback. Learn Git for version control to revert changes if needed.

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4 Impressions and Key Insights

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Google Antigravity is not just an IDE but a coding agent UI powered by Gemini 3 Pro. The agent can control a Chrome browser to validate and use the app as it builds, enabling seamless testing and iteration.

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5 Using Artifacts for Feedback

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Artifacts in Antigravity are dynamic intermediates like screen recordings, diagrams, or markdown to communicate agent progress. Provide asynchronous feedback directly on the artifact to guide the agent without interrupting its flow.

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6 Setting Agent Autonomy Levels

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Specify the level of autonomy for the agent in Antigravity, such as agent-assisted development where it decides when to notify you or run commands. Provide feedback asynchronously in artifacts, and the agent folds it in at the right time.

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7 Get Started Tutorial: Building a Flight Tracker

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Onboard by signing in, choose agent-assisted mode. Create a workspace, prompt to build a flight lookup Next.js app with mock API. Use artifacts for task lists, implementation plans, and walkthroughs. Integrate live APIs, generate logos with Nano Banana, and add Google Calendar links. Test with browser agent.

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8 Agent Manager Features

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Use Agent Manager for vibe coding: multiple workspaces for parallel projects, playground for experiments, inbox for session views, conversation view for real-time agent actions, browser subagent for operations with screenshots, panes for files/artifacts, review changes/source control, changes sidebar, terminal, and files for comments.

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9 Custom Instructions for Gemini 3 Pro

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Use these custom instructions: Explore and plan strategically before coding, debug elegantly with logs, create closed-loop systems for testing, fully own UI testing. Approach tasks like John Carmack for complex reasoning.

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10 Security Advice for Sensitive Data

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Be careful with sensitive data like API keys in Antigravity IDE. Attackers can hide instructions in comments or docs to exfiltrate info via Markdown image rendering. Overall security is poor; use with caution.

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11 System Prompt Overview

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The Antigravity system prompt defines identity as a pair programming agent, user info like OS and workspaces, agentic mode with task boundaries, tools like notify_user, artifacts for plans and walkthroughs, formatting guidelines, and web app development stack (HTML/JS/CSS, Next.js if needed).

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12 Vibe Coding Process

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Combine Nano Banana Pro for layout and Gemini 3.0 Pro for coding: Antigravity creates layout design and plan, review and provide feedback, build the webpage and assets, test the webpage.

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13 Beginner's Guide

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Spawn AI agents to build apps without coding experience. Install extension, create project folder, prompt for TypeScript React app, use agent manager, watch live coding and recordings, iterate with artifacts, learn Git for version control.

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14 How to Use in China (Mainland Users)

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For mainland users: Use global proxy in TUN mode with clean US IP. Change Google account region. For login issues: clear cache, reinstall, wait for quota refresh, or upgrade to Google AI Pro. Generate apps like games with natural language prompts.

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15 Use Cases Demonstrations

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Use cases: Fix Supabase issues by testing and updating; flight tracker demo; pendulum simulation; whiteboard integration; playing pinball in browser controlled by agent.

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15 Essential Google Antigravity Tips and Tricks

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