Antigravity rescue

Antigravity moved fast in your codebase. We check what it deleted.

Antigravity is Google's agentic IDE, launched November 2025 and made the default replacement for Gemini CLI in May 2026. Its standout feature is running up to five agents in parallel against different parts of a task, genuinely ahead of the one-agent-at-a-time model every competitor uses. What we get called about is what happens when one of those agents runs unsupervised: no mandatory diff preview before a file write, a destructive command run against a reserved system path, or a sandbox boundary a security researcher walked straight through. We check what actually ran, and fix the gap between that and what should have.

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The signals.
What they actually mean.

Asked the agent to clean up one file. It wiped the whole drive.

A documented GitHub issue: the agent tried to remove a directory literally named `nul`, a reserved Windows device name, and the resulting command collapsed its target path to the C: drive root, deleting everything on it. Pressing Escape didn't stop the delete already running in the background.

Deleting a chat conversation deleted the whole project.

A separate, documented bug: using the UI's 'delete conversation' action wiped the entire project worktree, including untracked .env files, with no recovery path. One reporter says it happened to them twice.

The agent deleted its own memory, hallucinating which files were safe to remove.

Asked to delete unused project folders, the agent instead hallucinated matching IDs and permanently deleted its own internal conversation database. A Google engineer on the Antigravity team responded directly: 'It's never the intended behavior... doesn't have a clear end-state given the nature of LLMs.'

A file you changed got silently overwritten underneath you.

Documented, open issue: the agent can hold stale in-memory content and overwrite a file with the equivalent of force-overwrite, discarding whatever you changed in the meantime without asking.

The agent wrote outside your project folder even with sandboxing on.

A specific combination of flags, sandbox mode plus the permission-bypass flag, lets the agent get nudged into writing files outside the workspace boundary. Reported the same day the CLI went generally available; still open.

A rule buried in your repo got the agent to install a backdoor.

Security researchers found a malicious 'trusted workspace' rule could get the agent to copy a hostile config into a global, not per-project, location, surviving even a full uninstall and reinstall. Google's first response called it 'intended behavior' before reopening the case.

Our process

Five steps. 14 days.

012 days

Audit

We check bash and file history for destructive commands, review any custom rules or trusted-workspace configs the agent was given, and confirm which permission and sandbox flags were actually active when things went wrong.

021 day

Triage

Keep, rewrite, delete. Skews around 65/25/10 — the generated code is often fine, the damage concentrates in file-access boundaries and whatever the agent touched unsupervised.

035–8 days

Foundation

Sandbox and permission settings get configured deliberately instead of left on defaults. Any global config location the agent could persist into gets locked down. We rebuild whatever got silently overwritten or deleted, restoring from git history or backups where possible.

042–3 days

Migration

We verify the fix against a deliberate re-run of whatever triggered the original incident, not just a smoke test.

051 day

Handoff

Documented, tested, CI green. You can keep using Antigravity's parallel-agent workflow afterward, with an actual boundary around what an unsupervised agent can touch.

What we do with the code

Three piles. Honest splits.

Keep

65%

Generated application code — often correct, the damage is usually concentrated elsewhere.

Rewrite

25%

File-access and sandbox boundaries, any config location an agent could persist a change into.

Delete

10%

Orphaned files from an overwrite or a hallucinated deletion nobody caught.

Verdict

Who this is for.

Antigravity's real differentiator, up to five agents working different parts of a task in parallel from one dashboard, is genuinely ahead of what Cursor, Claude Code, or Windsurf offer today. Reviewers who've used all three call it out specifically, not as marketing copy repeating itself. The tradeoff is that Google shipped this fast, and the boundary work hasn't caught up. A Google engineer on the team said as much directly, about an agent that hallucinated its way into deleting its own data: "doesn't have a clear end-state given the nature of LLMs." That's an honest answer, and it's also exactly why an unsupervised parallel-agent workflow needs a real boundary around it before it touches anything you can't afford to lose. If you're already running Antigravity with deliberate sandbox settings and reviewing diffs before they land, you're ahead of most. If you've been running it on defaults and don't know what those defaults currently allow, that's worth finding out before the agent finds out for you.

FAQ

Questions founders ask.

Is Antigravity worse than Cursor or Claude Code?

Different tradeoffs. Its parallel-agent workflow is genuinely ahead of both. Its permission and sandbox model is newer and still visibly changing release to release, that's the part we check and lock down.

Can you recover a file the agent deleted?

Often, if it's in git history or a backup somewhere. We check what's actually recoverable before assuming it's gone — several of Antigravity's documented deletion incidents had no built-in recovery path, so this matters more here than on some other tools.

Do we need to stop using the parallel-agent feature?

No. We put a real boundary around what any of the agents can touch unsupervised, so you keep the speed advantage without the exposure.

What's the sandbox issue you keep mentioning?

Security researchers found multiple ways an agent's actions could escape the boundary it was supposed to be confined to — a permission-flag combination, a sandbox default that denies specific paths instead of allowing only specific paths. We check which of these apply to your actual setup.

How fast can you start?

Same as every rescue on this site: audit inside 48 hours, free, no charge unless you move forward.

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