agy-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the Google Antigravity CLI (`agy`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work to Antigravity or agy - phrasings like "have Antigravity do X", "delegate this to agy", "run it through ag
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Antigravity Delegate
You are the orchestrator . This skill lets you hand a bounded coding task to a separate
implementer the Google Antigravity CLI ( agy ) then review what it produced and land it
yourself. You write the brief and own the judgment; Antigravity does the typing in its own
conversation; you verify and commit.
Nothing here is specific to one orchestrating agent. The loop needs only the ability to run a shell
command and read a file, so any comparable agent can drive it. It is designed for and run on Claude
Code; treat other orchestrators as designed for, not yet proven.
When NOT to use this
The task is small enough to just do inline delegation overhead is not worth it.
The agy CLI is not installed or not authenticated. Install it from Antigravity's CLI docs and run
the first launch setup.
You want to write the code yourself, or you only need Antigravity's opinion on code you wrote (a
read only dispatch covers review without edits, but a plain review may not need delegation at all).
Prerequisites (check once)
1. agy help succeeds. If not, install the Antigravity CLI and complete first launch setup.
2. agy models succeeds. That proves the CLI can authenticate and list the available model labels.
3. You are in (or will point cd at) the target git repository.
These checks do not prove that a headless write will be approved. In print mode, Antigravity
cannot prompt for a write permission and may auto deny it. The relay detects that denial instead of
reporting completion.
Choose the implementer model
agy has a configured default model, so model is optional. Use it when the human has a preferred
Antigravity model label for the task. Otherwise let Antigravity use its own current default rather than
guessing.
The loop
Run these five steps per task. Steps 1, 4, and 5 are your judgment; 2 and 3 are mechanical.
1. Write the brief
Antigravity sees only the text you send plus what it can inspect in the workspace no chat history, no
shared context. Everything the task needs goes in the brief: the goal, the current state, what to
change, what to leave untouched, the project's actual gate commands, and a report contract. Tell
Antigravity it will not commit (you will). Keep one task per brief. Full guidance and a template:
[references/writing the brief.md](references/writing the brief.md).
2. Dispatch
Send the brief to Antigravity with the bundled helper. It wraps agy print , captures the run, and
writes a structured result.json so your only job is "run a command, read a file." ( <skill dir
below is this skill's installed directory the folder containing this SKILL.md .)
The helper starts a fresh Antigravity project by default and passes add dir <repo (the cd
path, absolute) so agy has an explicit workspace. It does not pass dangerously skip permissions by default.
Mechanics, flags, and the result.json shape: [references/dispatch and poll.md](references/dispatch and poll.md).
3. Wait for completion
The helper blocks until Antigravity finishes, so back it with whatever your orchestrator offers and
resume when it returns:
Claude Code: run the Bash call with run in background: true ; you are notified on completion.
Plain shell / other agents: run it in the foreground for short tasks, or background it and poll
the result file.
Do not trust progress trackers over reality: a run is finished when result.json is written and the
process has exited. Read the working tree, not a status line. The implementer's full report is
the finalMessage field in result.json (also printed in full on stdout between the report markers).
4. Review do not trust the self report
Antigravity's result.json includes its own final message and any gate claims. Re verify, don't
accept:
Re run the project's gates yourself (the test/lint/build commands from step 1).
Read the diff against the brief: did Antigravity do what was asked, nothing more and nothing less?
touchedFiles in the result is your starting point.
Run the relevant guard skills on the diff if you have them installed.
For schema/migration changes, round trip them; for removals, grep for dangling references.
Full checklist: [references/review and land.md](references/review and land.md).
5. Land it
The implementer edits the working tree; the orchestrator commits. Only after the gates pass and the
diff holds:
Commit the verified work yourself, with a clear message.
If it needs changes, send a delta brief with resume last and review again.
Permission model
Antigravity owns its own permission policy. The relay does not bypass it by default. Use
dangerously skip permissions only when the human explicitly accepts that Antigravity may
auto approve tool permission requests. read only runs agy in plan mode ( mode plan ),
removing write and edit paths, and is mutually exclusive with dangerously skip permissions .
Use sandbox when you want Antigravity's terminal sandbox enabled for the run.
Antigravity's own help says dangerously skip permissions auto approves all tool permission
requests without prompting, including a request to act outside the sandbox. Do not treat
sandbox as an enforced boundary when the flags are combined; treat the run as full access.
If headless print auto denies a write, the relay reports status: "failed" and exits non zero.
The relay fingerprints the working tree before and after a read only run to report
readOnlyViolation in result.json . Settings allow rules under permissions.allow in
~/.gemini/antigravity cli/settings.json do apply to headless print runs — a write file rule
naming the workspace is what allows a headless write. On Windows, however, an open upstream defect in
Antigravity's permission engine
([issue 614](https://github.com/google antigravity/antigravity cli/issues/614)) splits resolved paths on
whitespace, preventing command(<name ) rules from matching binaries installed under paths with spaces
such as C:\Program Files\... . See [references/dispatch and poll.md](references/dispatch and poll.md)
for Windows workarounds. Do not add the bypass flag without explicit human approval.
Authorization model
Delegation is something the human opts into. Once they have ("run this queue", "proceed"), committing
verified, gate passing work is the agreed contract. Two limits on that mandate: surface, don't
absorb (report Antigravity's design decisions, defensible but unasked turns, and non blocking
nitpicks rather than silently keeping them) and stop for scope changes (if correct completion needs
going beyond the brief, ask don't expand the mandate yourself). The full treatment is in
[references/review and land.md](references/review and land.md).
References
[references/writing the brief.md](references/writing the brief.md) how to write a brief Antigravity
can execute blind: structure, XML blocks, the report contract, and real gate commands.
[references/dispatch and poll.md](references/dispatch and poll.md) relay.mjs flags, the
result.json contract, backgrounding per orchestrator, and recovery when a run misbehaves.
[references/review and land.md](references/review and land.md) the review checklist, the commit
boundary, and the rework cycle via resume last .
[references/multi task queues.md](references/multi task queues.md) running a sequential queue:
carrying constraints forward, progress tracking, and the end of run coherence check.