Hand off background & scheduled work
Goal. Let an agent work while you're away — including on a schedule — and check the result later.
Every night, pull the latest commits, run the full test suite, and write me a summary of any failures to read in the morning.
Set this up as a scheduled task in the Manager Surface so the agent runs it on a cron without you starting it each time.
- 1Hand an agent a job and let it run in the background — you don't have to watch; you can come back to a finished result.
- 2For recurring work, create a cron-scheduled background task like the nightly test run above. The agent fires on the schedule and does the work unattended.
- 3Agents also work asynchronously on maintenance jobs — reproducing a bug, generating a test case, and implementing the fix across editor, terminal and browser — which is ideal for the kind of slow, repetitive task you'd rather not sit through.
You'll see. A task that runs on its own — once in the background or on a nightly schedule — and a summary waiting for you when it's done.
Cost. Background and scheduled runs consume the same weekly quota as interactive ones; on the free plan, keep schedules light, or move to Google AI Pro for more headroom (see antigravity.google/pricing for current plan pricing).
Takeaway. Agents don't need you watching — hand off background and cron-scheduled jobs and review the results on your own time.