Google's Antigravity 2.0 Ships Audio Support and Built-in Skill Guide

Google Antigravity 2.0, the standalone agent-first development platform that replaced Gemini CLI earlier this year, just shipped a batch of quality-of-life improvements across its desktop app and CLI. The headliners: a new built-in antigravity_guide skill, audio file rendering support, and improved substring-based file search. None of these are earth-shattering on their own, but together they chip away at the friction that has kept the platform feeling rough around the edges since its rocky 2.0 launch.

The guide that was missing all along

If you have ever been mid-conversation with an Antigravity agent and had to alt-tab to the docs to remember a slash command or SDK method, the new antigravity_guide skill is for you. It provides instant, in-context reference guides for Antigravity 2.0, the CLI, the IDE, and the SDK, all without leaving the agent session. Think of it as a built-in cheat sheet the agent can consult on your behalf.

This matters more than it sounds. Antigravity 2.0 is a sprawling platform now, a complete ecosystem of products designed for the agent-first era, with a flagship standalone app for managing multiple local agents in parallel, running scheduled tasks, and more. Keeping track of what is available where is genuinely hard, and having a skill that surfaces that knowledge inline closes a real usability gap.

Audio in, richer context out

The update also adds audio file rendering, meaning agents can now receive and process audio alongside text prompts. The SDK already supports passing rich multimedia file attachments including images, videos, audio, and documents to the agent alongside textual instruction prompt lists, and this rendering update brings the desktop app and CLI closer to parity with that capability.

This pairs naturally with the live voice transcription that shipped with the original 2.0 release. Google added live voice transcription using Gemini Audio models, since typing a perfect prompt can be slow, especially when explaining architecture, constraints, or tradeoffs. Now the pipeline goes further: you can drop an audio file directly into an agent conversation as a reference artifact, not just dictate into it.

Finding files without knowing their exact names

The improved substring file search is a small but high-frequency win. Previously, file search in the CLI required more precise matching. The new behavior extends the same fuzzy logic already applied to slash commands: fuzzy and partial substring matching now works across slash commands, so typing something like /el surfaces both /help and /model where before there were no suggested completions. The same principle now applies to file references when using the @ mention syntax.

Everything else in the drop

The full Antigravity CLI changelog includes a number of other improvements worth knowing about:

• Improved commit history navigation: scrolling now immediately loads and displays changed files and diffs
• Improved Git integration by enabling ASCII node graphs (git log --graph) for visual parity with hg/jj
• Improved commit hash matching to seamlessly resolve short 6-character to long 64-character hashes via prefix comparison
• Added an alert message type for system errors and warnings, separating them from standard command output
• Added the CLI log file path to the /help menu for easy troubleshooting
• Hardened command execution permission checks by enforcing strict exact-match verification for PowerShell scripts, complex shell redirections, and unparseable strings to prevent sandbox escapes
• Fixed a bug where ask permissions were dropped during settings updates, ensuring settings.json preservation

Getting the update

Previous Antigravity and Antigravity IDE releases are available on the releases page, and by default they auto-update to the latest version. To stay on an older version, set Update: Mode to manual or none in settings. The latest stable build is v2.2.1, available for macOS Apple Silicon and Intel, Windows ARM64 and x64, and Linux ARM64 and x64.

If you are still on Gemini CLI, note that Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions stopped serving requests for Google AI Pro and Ultra users earlier this month. Antigravity CLI shares the same agent harness as Antigravity 2.0, ensuring that all future improvements to core agents are automatically applied wherever you use them. The official docs have a migration guide to help with the transition.