Compared to other CLI-based AI agent IDEs, Antigravity shows very weak skill awareness. I constantly have to remind it to check and use skills, which wastes time.
I’ve tested Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Antigravity on the same project, with the same code and identical prompts. Antigravity Gemini Pro 3.1 is the only one that failed to utilize skills.
This is not a minor inconvenience—it is a fundamental flaw. For an AI IDE in 2026, such poor skill integration is below standard and unacceptable. I strongly urge the development team to prioritize fixing this issue and ensure Antigravity meets the expectations of modern AI tooling.
Hi @Ken_Chen1
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Thank you for your valuable feedback. We sincerely appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with the community. Your input is crucial for our continuous improvement and we have shared it directly with the relevant internal team for their review.
This is exactly the kind of response that makes users lose trust. “Shared it with the internal team” — this issue has existed since Antigravity launched in November. Four months of broken skill awareness isn’t a feature request, it’s a shipping defect.
I’ve tested Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex on the same projects with the same prompts. They all handle skill utilization out of the box. Antigravity is the only one that requires constant hand-holding to use its own capabilities. That’s not an edge case. That’s a fundamental gap in the product.
If the team is aware of this, what’s the timeline on a fix? Because “we’ve shared your feedback” isn’t a roadmap.
My findings and current workaround:
The Issue: While Antigravity recognizes the ~/.gemini/antigravity/skills directory, it does not support symbolic links. This limitation prevents users from managing multiple repositories (corporate, team, or personal) via a symlink-based strategy.
The Current Fix: To ensure skills are properly indexed, avoid symlinks and clone your skills repository directly into the local ~/.gemini/antigravity/ folder. Following this approach, personal skills now correctly populate in the Antigravity Agent when using the / trigger.
@Shivam_Singh2 and Antigravity Team,
Could you please implement support for symbolic links when loading Antigravity settings and skills?