Google Will Shut Down Its Jules Coding Agent on December 31 and Fold the Work Into Antigravity
Google says Jules, the asynchronous coding agent it launched in December 2024, will wind down on December 31, 2026, as part of unifying its agentic coding efforts. Users can keep working in sessions until November 11, after which Jules becomes read-only. Google says lessons from Jules are going into Antigravity, its agent-first development platform, and it has published a way to export settings, memories and session history.
Google is cutting its coding-agent lineup down to one product. Jules, the asynchronous agent it launched in December 2024, will wind down on December 31, 2026, "as part of our work to unify our agentic coding efforts," Google said in a notice posted on October 29.
The timeline#
Users can keep working in Jules sessions until November 11, after which it turns read-only until the end of the year, according to the notice. Google says code, branches and pull requests already live in GitHub and stay there, and it has published a tool to export what Jules holds: account settings, environment variables, scheduled tasks, connected repositories, memories and full session histories.
Where the work goes#
Google says what it learned from Jules is shaping products across the company, "including our agent-first platform, Google Antigravity." The Verge quoted Google as saying it is bringing Jules' approach into Antigravity "so you get the best of both worlds: autonomous remote background task execution and an agent-first development environment." Antigravity is also where OpenAI says its own models are due to arrive.
What GitHub shows about Jules' use#
Google has not published usage figures, but Jules leaves a public trace. When it opens a pull request on GitHub, the request is credited to its GitHub app. A search by Times of AI on November 2 found about 336,000 pull requests in public repositories credited to the Jules app since launch, about 206,000 of them merged. Monthly activity has not been growing steadily: about 12,500 in September 2025, 6,900 in March 2026 and 10,400 in September 2026.
GitHub's own coding agent shows how much larger a competitor's footprint can be. Pull requests credited to the Copilot coding agent's app numbered about 59,500 in September 2026, nearly six times Jules' count for that month. On this measure, Google is closing a product whose activity had not grown steadily and was well behind the market leader on GitHub. It is putting those users into Antigravity, a development environment where it controls the whole interface rather than working through a third party's pull-request queue.
Limits#
- Google has not said whether Antigravity will gain every Jules feature, such as scheduled tasks, or on what timeline.
- Google has not said how many people use Jules. GitHub search counts cover public repositories only, count pull requests rather than users, and miss work where Jules pushed to a branch that a person then opened as a pull request. They are a rough proxy, not a usage figure.
- The comparison with Copilot is analysis; the two agents are used in different ways, and OpenAI's Codex could not be counted the same way because its pull requests are credited to users.