# Antigravity CLI vs Emdash (slim)

> Antigravity CLI and Emdash score within a point of each other for agent harnesses, 54.7 and 53.9 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Antigravity CLI and Emdash score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 54.7 (C) and 53.9 (D). Emdash leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- Antigravity CLI: C 54.7, rank #894 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/antigravity-cli.min.md
- Emdash: D 53.9, rank #927 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/emdash.min.md
- Antigravity CLI, good for Developers on Google AI plans or Gemini Enterprise who want a terminal agent with a sandbox on by default and access to several model families, depending on plan. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 78 against 55; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 55; Security & auth, 53 against 38.
- Emdash, good for Developers who want parallel agents in worktrees, fed from their issue tracker, locally or over SSH. Ahead on Reliability, 55 against 43; Payments & pricing, 60 against 30. Also No key needed to call it; Open source; No incidents deducted, where Antigravity CLI loses 3 points for them.

| Category | Antigravity CLI | Emdash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 55 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 55 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 55 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 53 | 38 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 68 | 70 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 55 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Antigravity CLI | Emdash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Google | General Action, Inc. |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary. The repository holds the README, changelog and examples, with no source and no licence file. Use is under the Google Antigravity Additional Terms of Service, the Google Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy | Apache-2.0 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-30 | 2026-11-06 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not read yet |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not read yet |

Why the edge:
- Payments & pricing, Emdash +30: Antigravity CLI 30 (Harness reading of the published rubric. No payment protocol in the docs, the pricing page or the plans page (0). Plan prices are public without a login, with a $0 individual plan and Gemini Enterprise Standard or Plus from $30 a seat a month, and Google AI Pro at $20 and Ultra at $100 or $200 a month per Google's 19 May 2026 post. Overages draw on AI credits at Gemini Enterprise consumption rates, which were not read, so this is plan-level pricing (10). The pricing page lists the $0 plan as needing no subscription, and none of the pages read asks for a payment method, but the account flow was not tested (20). Sign-in is a browser flow with a Google account, or a Gemini API key set by hand, and the CLI won't start unauthenticated (0). 0+10+20+0 = 30.); Emdash 60 (Free self-hosted software with nothing to buy, so 0 for a protocol and 20 each for public pricing, a free tier and onboarding with no sign-up, 60.)
- Schema & documentation, Antigravity CLI +23: Antigravity CLI 78 (Framework reading. No published JSON Schema for settings.json, mcp_config.json or hooks.json was found, although the docs type each key (10). llms.txt at antigravity.google/llms.txt, and every docs page has a Markdown copy (10). Pages say when to use each permission preset and execution mode, what each allows and when the sandbox applies (15). Presets, modes, output formats, status values and effort levels are enumerated (13). The headless page documents the output envelope, the status values and exit codes, with a jq example (15). A dated changelog on the docs site and versioned release notes and tags in the repository (15). 10+10+15+13+15+15 = 78.); Emdash 55 (Harness reading. Docs site and a workspace server package (55).)
- Agent ergonomics, Antigravity CLI +23: Antigravity CLI 78 (Framework reading, adapted to a harness driven by a pipeline. MCP tools can be allowed or refused by server and tool, and a 20,000-token budget for user rules stops large rule sets from crowding out skills and MCP tools (16). No turn or spend cap appears in the flag reference, and `--print-timeout` sets a wall-clock limit only, with no limit by default (10). The JSON envelope carries a status field and token usage, and since 1.4.11 a `finished_reason` field says why a turn ended early (16). Exit codes are documented, but a tool soft-denied in headless mode still exits 0 (14). `--continue` and `--conversation` resume earlier runs (14). A Python SDK on PyPI, which is a separate package, and no second SDK language for the CLI (8). 16+10+16+14+14+8 = 78.); Emdash 55 (Harness reading. Issue intake from Linear, GitHub, Jira and others, diff review, pull requests and CI checks in one place, local or over SSH (55).)
- Security & auth, Antigravity CLI +15: Antigravity CLI 53 (Framework reading (credentials and telemetry defaults, approvals and sandboxing, guardrails, audit, security programme), five lines. Credentials are a Google account sign-in kept in the operating system keyring, or a Gemini API key in settings.json. The README says using the CLI allows Google to collect Interactions until the user opts out (10). Since 1.3.5 on macOS and Linux and 1.4.4 on Windows 11 24H2 the default for personal accounts is Auto mode, which runs commands in the terminal sandbox, hides ~/.ssh, .env and, since 1.4.6, ~/.docker and ~/.kube, blocks network access outside approved domains, and has a separate agent review commands that leave the sandbox. Auto approves file edits and safe commands without asking, Turbo turns the sandbox off, and business accounts start in Default (18). Hooks run before and after tool calls and can block one, and since 1.4.11 a PreInvocation hook can stop a turn. No documented defence against prompt injection in fetched content was found (7). The CLI log records model resolution, and approvals show in the conversation, but no exportable audit log was found (10). google.com has a valid security.txt with reports to g.co/vulnz (per the 10 October check), antigravity.google serves none, no CLI advisory appears in the changelog, and NVD returns no CVE for Antigravity on 4 November. The repository's advisory page couldn't be read (8). 10+18+7+10+8 = 53.); Emdash 38 (Harness reading. Telemetry is described as optional and disabled in Settings or with TELEMETRY_ENABLED=false, which reads as on by default (15 of 30). Worktree per task and remote machines over SSH (10 of 20). No prompt-injection guidance (5). No audit log (5). No security policy file found (3). 15 + 10 + 5 + 5 + 3 = 38.)
- Reliability, Emdash +12: Antigravity CLI 43 (Local-package reading. An official installer for macOS, Linux and Windows, with an Android build for Termux, that checks a SHA-512 checksum from Google's release manifest before it installs (install.sh re-read on 4 November) (20). No public CI or test suite, since the repository holds no source and no workflows, only issue templates (0). Open issues and pull requests could not be read, so the crash and regression line is unchecked (0). Behaviour changes ship in patch releases as Changed or Improved bullets with no breaking-change heading, such as 1.4.6 (23 October) closing ~/.docker and ~/.kube to sandboxed commands, and 1.2.10's exit-code change (8). Version 1.x, so stable under the rule (15). 20+0+0+8+15 = 43.); Emdash 55 (Local software. Homebrew cask and installers for macOS, Windows and Linux (20). A code-consistency check and release workflows; no test workflow found (10). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). Stable tags to v1.2.11, release notes on GitHub (10). Version 1.2.11 (15). 20 + 10 + 0 + 10 + 15 = 55.)