Google shuts down Jules, its coding agent, and merges it into the Antigravity platform
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Google will end Jules, an agent that codes on its own while the person does something else, this December 31. Jules lets people wrap up sessions until November 11, then goes read-only. The company applies what it learned to products such as Antigravity, lets users export their account data and keeps the code where it already was, on GitHub.
Google will stop offering Jules, its coding agent that works in the background, on December 31, 2026. It announced this on October 29 in Jules's own changelog: sessions can be finished until November 11, and from that date the service is read-only until the end of the year.
According to Europa Press, Google launched Jules in December 2024 and moved it to public beta in May 2025; it was used to fix bugs, update versions or run tests, among other programming tasks. Google introduced Antigravity in November 2025, alongside the Gemini 3 model, as an agent-based development platform.
The company frames the shutdown as part of its work to unify its agentic coding efforts. Jules began as an experiment to learn how asynchronous agents could help people clear their backlog, and what users built with it, Google says, is shaping products across the company, Antigravity among them. Europa Press adds that Antigravity will allow both running remote tasks in the background and working in an agent-centered environment.
Anyone who uses Jules can already export their settings, environment variables, scheduled tasks, connected repositories, memories, setup scripts and every session, with its request, its plan, the full activity log and the code changes. The code, branches and pull requests already live on GitHub and are not moving.
Why it matters · analysis and opinion
Anyone who has built tasks on Jules has a short window, and the first step is to export what lives only there: settings, memories, scheduled tasks and the session history, because the code is safe on GitHub. Then comes deciding where that workflow goes next. Google points to Antigravity, but what has been published does not detail which Jules features will stay or on what terms. The shutdown also leaves a lesson about resting processes on a single provider's agent: it is wise to keep a copy of the instructions and the setup scripts, and to have a tested alternative before the date the service stops working.
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