The One-Click Exporter: AI Studio Antigravity, Probed to Its Limits

What nobody tells you about exporting your multi-agent prototype to a local workspace.

Every architect who's prototyped a multi-agent app in Google AI Studio eventually hits the same wall: the prototype works, but it lives in a browser tab. At I/O 2026, Google shipped a fix — Export to Antigravity, a one-click handoff to a local production workspace, carrying "all the context" with it.

I ran a real two-agent prototype through it. Here's exactly what survived the trip, what didn't, and what I had to fix by hand — including a bug that had nothing to do with the export itself.

. Along the way, provisioning Firestore surfaced my first real gotcha before I even got to the export step — more on that below.

Triggering the export: Code tab → Export → Export to Antigravity. The dialog is genuinely informative — it tells you upfront what's coming: all project files, conversation history, and explicitly "1 secret will be included."

Gotcha 2 — The export doesn't tell you where it went.

After exporting, nothing appeared in Downloads. The Agent Manager app knew a project called "Research Digest" existed, but gave no visible file path. I had to search my whole computer by name to find it — it turned out to be nested inside an internal ~/antigravity/ folder. Only then could I "Open Folder" in the separate Antigravity IDE app and actually see the code. The Agent Manager (chat/orchestration surface) and the IDE (VS Code-based editor) are two different apps that don't automatically hand off to each other — that disconnect cost real time.

Re-ran Generate Digest — it worked end to end: Agent 1 gathered 5 grounded sources, Agent 2 synthesized them into a readable digest with proper citations, and the result persisted to Firestore with a real document ID.

/ in my github!

Got your own gotchas from the AI Studio → Antigravity export? Reply or comment — I'll fold the best ones into a follow-up.