Google winds down Jules and moves its learnings to Antigravity

Felix Laurent 30 Oct 2026 3 min read

AI agents

Google is shutting down Jules, its asynchronous coding agent. Users can keep working until Nov 11, after that Jules turns read-only, and it winds down completely on Dec 31, 2026. The team says its learnings will go into Antigravity, Google's agent-first development platform.

What the Jules team said

The Jules team announced the move on X on Oct 29 and posted a "Jules Turndown" notice in the product's changelog the same day. The team describes Jules as an experiment. It says the aim was to learn how asynchronous coding agents can help developers ship faster, and that those learnings shaped several products across Google.

The team says it is bringing what it learned into Antigravity. The stated goal is to combine autonomous background tasks that run remotely with an agent-first development environment. "As we focus on this unified experience, Jules will be winding down," the team wrote. Google calls the move "part of our work to unify our agentic coding efforts". The changelog also sets the dates.

The shutdown timeline

According to the changelog, users have until Nov 11, 2026 to finish their sessions. After that, Jules turns read-only until the end of the year, and it winds down on Dec 31, 2026. Chrome Geek notes that Google gives no time of day for either cutoff.

The notice says nothing about refunds or about Jules limits in the Google AI Pro and Ultra plans, which raised task limits by 5 and 20 times. Google has also not said when the Jules features will arrive in Antigravity. The notice does explain how to keep data.

How to export your data

Code, branches and pull requests stay on GitHub. Everything else Jules knows about a user's work can be exported to a local folder. That covers settings, environment variables, scheduled tasks, connected repositories, memories, setup scripts and every session.

The export runs through Jules Tools, the command-line client. Users install it with npm, log in with jules login, then paste an export prompt into a command-line coding agent such as Claude Code. The data lands in ~/jules-export, with a folder for each repository and each session. The environment variables file contains their values, so it needs the same care as any secrets file. The export ends a product that lasted under two years.

From Labs experiment to shutdown

Google introduced Jules in Google Labs in December 2024. In May 2025 it opened a free public beta on Gemini 2.5 Pro, and in August 2025 Jules came out of beta with paid tiers. A command-line client and an API followed in October 2025, and Gemini 3 Pro arrived in Jules in November.

Antigravity had launched on Nov 18, 2025, a day before Gemini 3 Pro reached Jules. It reached version 2.0 at Google I/O in May 2026. On the same day as the Jules notice, Google rolled out a plugin marketplace in the Antigravity app and command-line tool. Launch partners include Atlassian, Figma, Stripe and Datadog. Google had two coding agent products, and now it keeps one.

What users lose

Jules worked in the background: a developer gave it a task, and it came back with a pull request. Antigravity is built around an editor where developers direct agents and watch them work. The background mode is what Google promises to carry over, without a date.

Some users noticed the gap. "Issue is that there is now no cloud coding agent," one wrote on X, as quoted by Times of AI. Times of AI also says Google has not confirmed whether session histories, memories or scheduled tasks can be moved into Antigravity.

So is Jules being replaced or just closed? For now, closed. Google sets firm dates, Nov 11 for new work and Dec 31 for the end, and gives a way to export data. It does not say when background tasks will reach Antigravity, whether Jules data can be imported there, or what happens to paid limits. Until it does, Jules users who rely on cloud tasks have about two weeks to move their work to another agent.