Best Practices
Antigravity amplifies your engineering ā but it amplifies bad habits as well as good ones. These practices come from real usage patterns: what produces clean, reviewable, shippable code versus what produces a mess you spend hours unwinding.
Write Precise Tasks
The quality of the agent's output is directly proportional to the quality of your task description. Vague tasks produce vague solutions. Specific tasks ā with file names, function names, expected behaviour ā produce targeted, correct changes.
One Concern Per Agent
Resist the temptation to bundle multiple unrelated changes into a single task. A focused agent produces a focused diff that is easy to review. A sprawling agent produces a sprawling diff that is hard to trust.
Review Every Diff
Multi-agent does not mean less review ā it means more concurrent review. An agent can be individually correct but introduce a change that conflicts with another agent's output. You are the integration layer.
Commit Frequently
Antigravity does not auto-commit. Accept agent diffs and commit immediately while the context is fresh. Small, frequent commits with clear messages make it easy to trace what each agent contributed ā and to revert if needed.
Good vs Poor Task Descriptions
The Antigravity Workflow Loop
Write a precise task
Name the file, the function, the expected behaviour, and any constraints (e.g. "don't change the public API"). The more specific you are, the less the agent has to infer.
Dispatch ā then do other work
While the agent runs, write the next task description, review a design document, or dispatch a second agent on an unrelated problem. Antigravity is designed for parallelism ā use it.
Answer clarifications promptly
If an agent surfaces a question in the Manager Surface, answer it quickly. A blocked agent is a wasted thread. Keep an eye on the agent list ā WAITING status means it needs you.
Review the diff with intent
Read the diff as you would a colleague's PR. Look for: does it solve the stated problem? Does it introduce anything unexpected? Does it have tests? Reject and redirect if not.
Accept and commit immediately
Accept the diff and commit with a message that attributes the change. git commit -m "fix: checkout null on empty cart (agent-assisted)". Do not batch accepted diffs ā commit each one cleanly.
What to Avoid
| Anti-Pattern | Why It Causes Problems | Better Approach |
|---|---|---|
| Vague task descriptions | Agent guesses intent, produces irrelevant or over-broad changes | Name the file, function, and expected outcome explicitly |
| Accepting diffs without reading | Agent errors compound; regressions ship | Read every diff as if it's a colleague's PR |
| Bundling unrelated tasks | Sprawling diffs that are hard to review or revert | One concern per agent ā keep diffs focused |
| Running agents on shared core files | Merge conflicts between concurrent agents | Check for file overlap warnings before dispatching |
| Ignoring the clarification queue | Agents stay blocked; no progress | Monitor the Manager Surface ā answer WAITING agents first |
| Letting accepted diffs pile up | Hard to trace which agent did what; messy git history | Commit after each accepted diff with a clear message |
| Using browser agent on prod | Risk of accidental form submission or state mutation | Always point browser agents at localhost or staging URLs |
A developer who writes good code and reviews carefully gets dramatically faster with Antigravity. A developer who writes sloppy specs and rubber-stamps diffs gets faster at introducing bugs. The tool multiplies what you bring to it ā bring your best engineering habits.
Antigravity agents are powerful but not infallible. They can misread intent, miss edge cases, or make individually correct changes that interact badly with other changes. Your job shifts from writing every line to reviewing every change ā that is still a job that requires engineering judgement.