Autonomy and Review Policies
How much should the agent check in? Tune it deliberately — and earn each loosening.
Antigravity lets you tune how much an agent checks in: submit every plan for review or proceed straight to implementation; ask before terminal commands or run freely inside the workspace. The defaults are conservative. The temptation is to crank autonomy to maximum on day one — resist it. Autonomy is earned task by task, the same way you'd extend trust to a new teammate.
Two checkpoints pay for themselves at any autonomy level: plan review before edits (catches wrong scope while it's free) and your read of the walkthrough before merging (catches wrong outcomes while they're cheap). Per-edit approvals, by contrast, kill exactly the throughput that makes a manager surface worth having.