Google Shutters Jules: Its Coding Agent Enters Read-Only Mode on November 11 and Closes December 31
Google is sunsetting Jules, its asynchronous coding agent. Sessions can be completed until November 11, after which the service enters read-only mode before closing on December 31, 2026. Google directs users to its Antigravity platform and offers a data export tool for information stored by Jules.
Google is sunsetting Jules, its asynchronous coding agent. The announcement, published on October 29 in the service’s changelog, sets a tight timeline: users can wrap up their sessions until November 11, 2026, after which Jules will enter read-only mode ahead of its final shutdown on December 31, 2026.
Consolidation Around Antigravity
Google frames this decision as part of its effort to “unify” its agentic coding initiatives. According to the company, Jules was an experiment to explore how background agents could help developers tackle their backlogs. Its learnings are now feeding into other products, starting with Google Antigravity, Google’s “agent-first” development platform. In a message cited by The Verge, Google indicated it aims to bring autonomous remote execution and an agent-centric development environment together within Antigravity.
In practice, Jules worked on connected GitHub repositories and produced code patches, which can now be retrieved session by session via the export tool.
What to Retrieve Before November 11
Existing code, branches, and pull requests already live on GitHub and are not going anywhere. However, everything stored exclusively on Jules’s end will disappear: account settings, environment variables, scheduled tasks, connected repositories, memories, setup scripts, and the history of every session (prompt, plan, full activity log, and code patches).
Google is offering an export to a local directory. Users must install the Jules command-line tool (npm install -g @google/jules), log in, and then paste a Google-provided prompt into a terminal-based coding agent, such as Claude Code, which checks the installation and executes an export script. Google itself cautions that this script relies on undocumented internal endpoints and that the export includes environment variable values—meaning the generated folder should be treated as sensitive. Google has not stated whether these assets will be importable into Antigravity.
Our take
The sunsetting of Jules confirms that major tech vendors rarely maintain multiple coding agents side by side for long: Google is placing its bets on a single product, Antigravity, to cover both the editor and background tasks. The most telling detail is the proposed export workflow: rather than a simple button in the web interface, Google provides a prompt designed to be executed by a coding agent—including third-party alternatives. For teams that configured scheduled tasks or accumulated project memories inside Jules, the urgency is real: finish active sessions and export data before November 11, then rebuild those automated workflows elsewhere, as no migration path has been announced.
Sources
- Jules — Changelog, Jules Turndown (October 29, 2026) Primary source
- The Verge — Google is sunsetting its AI coding agent, Jules Secondary source
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