Google Antigravity's /boost: Multi-Agent Deep Reasoning for Tough Code
Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)
Google's Antigravity introduces /boost, a slash command that activates an on-demand multi-agent reasoning pipeline for challenging software engineering tasks. When standard single-turn coding assistance struggles with complex bugs, race conditions, or intricate refactoring, /boost decomposes the problem, delegates focused workstreams to specialized subagents, and independently verifies solutions across iterative rounds. The three-phase pipeline—strategy formulation, parallel execution with isolated worktrees, and synthesis with regression checks—delivers deep reasoning directly in daily coding sessions, targeting the middle ground between everyday engineering and long-horizon campaigns.
When standard single-turn coding assistance falls short on complex bugs, race conditions, or intricate refactoring, `/boost` breaks down the problem, delegates focused workstreams to specialized subagents, and independently verifies solutions across iterative rounds.
- CSMastermind
It's impressive how badly Google has screwed up their models and coding products. There was a brief period of time I was using Anti-gravity as my daily driver when they first introduced it and then they just completely screwed it up.
- mystifyingpoi
All these /boost, ultracode and other magic incancations seem to be just "throw more money/tokens at the problem and maybe it helps".
- reilly3000
I had the same poor initial experience that others reported, but has anyone been paying for it recently and using it as a serious tool? Their new models are a pretty good value and crazy fast; I wonder if the Gemini on Antigravity output is overall competitive or has some niche use case other than being a frontend for Agent Substrate and their other projects
- dan_voronov
I suffered with Antigravity 1 and 2 for a long time (I’m not some weirdo, I just run a blog where I do deep dives into AI tools for programming=). The desktop version was basically unusable, so I used the console one. A couple of weeks ago I finally dropped it and switched to Pi with antigr login. With plugins you can configure it however you want. I just installed one of a deep-search plugins too: you need to add API credits from a search engine, but it can run multiple search rounds with a specified depth.
Compared $20 ChatGPT and AGY plan: my weekly limit on sol/terra used to disappear in one intensive day (or two normal ones). Now they’ve added the 5-hour limit on top of that, which is even more annoying. With Google I barely notice the limits at all — the only one is Opus 4.6 (not sure why it has one), and I only use it for double-checking sometimes.
The biggest problem is that the Pro model hasn’t been updated, and Flash just doesn’t produce solutions of the same quality as Sol. But it is matter of time...
- saagarjha
Judging by this entire page being the direct output of an LLM with little editing done at all I assume the feature is probably half baked and probably just a bunch of skills or harness tweaks? In that case, why would anyone pay for this at all?