Antigravity CLI vs Antigravity 2.0 app - what should you use?
Most people are conflating them because they shipped on the same day. Here's the actual split:
Antigravity 2.0 (desktop app):
- Visual command center for orchestrating agents
- Mission Control to manage multiple agents at once
- Scheduled background tasks, voice commands
- Best for: project-level orchestration, watching agents work in parallel, switching between projects
Antigravity CLI:
- Terminal binary, written in Go
- Same agent harness as 2.0, no GUI
- Wires into pre-commit hooks, CI pipelines, deploy gates
- Best for: scripting, tmux/remote SSH, automation, "agent as a Unix tool"
The shared harness is the part that matters. When Google ships a new tool or a better planning loop, it lands in both the same day. You can start a task in the CLI on a remote server, then check on it from the desktop app on your laptop - same context, same agents.
Mental model:
- CLI is the agent as a script you run
- 2.0 is the agent as an app you manage
- IDE is the agent as a pair programmer
which surface are you actually using day to day?
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