# How can we read conversations that we’ve had with our Antigravity assistants from other programs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Google Antigravity\ **Tags:** bug\ **Created:** [March 19, 2026, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/how-can-we-read-conversations-that-we-ve-had-with-our-antigravity-assistants-from-other-programs/134342 "2026-03-19T09:58:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kyliathy](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/kyliathy/32/31812_2.png) [@Kyliathy](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Kyliathy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/how-can-we-read-conversations-that-we-ve-had-with-our-antigravity-assistants-from-other-programs/134342/1 "2026-03-19T09:58:29Z")
I see Antigravity stores files in a .pb format. I’ve been trying to read it but no luck. Seems to be encrypted somehow? I’m on Windows. I wasn’t ever asked to setup an encryption key, nor do I know where one should reside. ---
**Author:** ![Patrick\_van\_Kemenade](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/patrick_van_kemenade/32/78469_2.png) [@Patrick\_van\_Kemenade](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Patrick_van_Kemenade)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 10:35am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/how-can-we-read-conversations-that-we-ve-had-with-our-antigravity-assistants-from-other-programs/134342/2 "2026-03-19T10:35:29Z")
Are you sure ? On my PC (windows) I have a think in my user directory somewhere a brain folder with past conversations stored as .md files, which you can read in any text editor. ---
**Author:** ![Kyliathy](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/kyliathy/32/31812_2.png) [@Kyliathy](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Kyliathy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/how-can-we-read-conversations-that-we-ve-had-with-our-antigravity-assistants-from-other-programs/134342/3 "2026-03-19T10:45:30Z")
@Patrick_van_Kemenade thank you :). Indeed the files in /brain can be used, but they are not the actual conversation. They are just artifacts produced during the run, which is still useful, but not what I’m after. Personally, I will not use an AI assistant if I am unable to own my conversations. I consider this a basic “right”. Not even the “export” button in the Antigravity IDE is working (not that I would use it anyway, I expect my conversations to be easily accessible on the file system so that I can use them with other tools). Kiro, Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code and OpenCode, _all_ allow access to my conversation history. I consider this best practice. ---
**Author:** ![Patrick\_van\_Kemenade](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/patrick_van_kemenade/32/78469_2.png) [@Patrick\_van\_Kemenade](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Patrick_van_Kemenade)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/how-can-we-read-conversations-that-we-ve-had-with-our-antigravity-assistants-from-other-programs/134342/4 "2026-03-19T16:59:48Z")
You are right, it contains a lot of .md files since I let it plan everything task + implementation plan and often afterwards it creates a walkthrough. And if sessions go big I ask for handovers. But the actual conversation are indeed missing. Could be usefull to have them an gather them in a local RAG or something, so you can make queries about things you did in the past and how did I fix x last time ? So you already used 5 different AI assistents before trying out Antigravity wow thats a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Kyliathy](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/kyliathy/32/31812_2.png) [@Kyliathy](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Kyliathy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2026, 6:32pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/how-can-we-read-conversations-that-we-ve-had-with-our-antigravity-assistants-from-other-programs/134342/5 "2026-03-29T18:32:22Z")
And in case you’re curious why I’m after those chats… a “little” hobby project of mine. Which I just launched officially, free & open source :slight\_smile each2.ai/context-core/ @everybodyElseAroundHere , I will keep insisting that we are given the keys to the chats that we create. You’re setting a bad industry example by not documenting clearly how users of your product can own their data & hard work. As you all know, when it comes to agentic coding, the ACTUAL work is exactly these hard-written prompts & discussions. By not allowing clear & transparent access to that, it’s like you’re obfuscating our code.