Google is winding down its async coding agent Jules: read-only after Nov 11 and shut down on Dec 31, with its learnings moving into Antigravity

Background and pain point

Jules is the asynchronous coding agent Google launched in December 2024: developers hand it tasks like fixing bugs or writing tests, and it clones the repo in a cloud VM, edits code and opens a PR. Over the past year Google has also been building Antigravity, its agent-first development platform, and the two products increasingly overlap. On Oct 29, the official @julesagent account and the Jules changelog announced that Jules will wind down as Google unifies its agentic coding efforts.

How it works

The official timeline has two steps: users can keep finishing sessions until November 11; after that Jules becomes read-only until it shuts down on December 31. Google says it is bringing what it learned from Jules into Antigravity, so users get autonomous remote background task execution together with an agent-first development environment. The export covers account settings, environment variables, scheduled tasks, connected repositories, memories, setup scripts, and every session's prompt, plan, full activity log and code patches.

Benchmarks and results

This is a shutdown notice. Google has not published benchmarks or usage numbers.

For developers

Install Jules Tools with npm install -g @google/jules and run jules login, then open a CLI coding agent from your home directory (Google's example is Claude Code) and paste the export prompt from the changelog; data lands in ~/jules-export. If you use Jules with GitHub, connect your GitHub account first or the export will not include repository data. env-variables.json holds real environment values, so keep the folder private. Google does not promise automatic import into Antigravity, so plan to turn setup scripts and memories into Antigravity rules or an AGENTS.md file and rebuild scheduled tasks one at a time.