Google kills Jules, its coding agent, and folds it into Antigravity

Google announced October 29 that it is winding down Jules, the autonomous coding agent it launched in December 2024 to handle jobs developers “don't want to do.” Users must finish active sessions by November 11, when Jules turns read-only, ahead of a full wind-down on December 31, 2026.

The stated reason is unification: what Google learned from Jules about background task execution folds into Antigravity, its agent-first coding platform, which on the same day launched a Plugin Marketplace — one-click bundles of skills, MCP servers, rules, hooks and custom agents from partners including Atlassian, Figma and Stripe, plus Google's own Workspace plugins.

Users can export settings, environment variables, scheduled tasks, repositories, memories and full session history to a local folder, and code already in GitHub stays put. Google gives no date for when Jules-style background tasks arrive inside Antigravity — and its own export guide names Claude Code, Anthropic's tool, as the example agent for the job.