Head to head · Agent harnesses · October 2026 research run

Antigravity CLI vs Muse Code

Muse Code scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against Antigravity CLI's 57.4 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Antigravity CLI leads on payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

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Which one, for what

Antigravity CLI C

Best 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

  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 20

Watch for

Closed source. The repository holds the README, changelog and examples, with no source and no licence file

Muse Code C

Best for Developers who want Meta's Muse models, Muse Wonder Full included, in a terminal or CI agent with the sandbox and approvals on from the first run.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 84 against 78
  • Security & auth, 67 against 53
  • Maintenance & community, 75 against 68
  • Transparency & trust, 57 against 51

Watch for

Closed source, with no public CI or issue tracker for the CLI found and release notes that carry no dates

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAntigravity CLIMuse CodeEdge
Reliability16%204345Muse Code +2
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27884Muse Code +6
Agent ergonomics13%16.27879Muse Code +1
Security & auth14%17.55367Muse Code +14
Payments & pricing10%12.53020Antigravity CLI +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.86875Muse Code +7
Transparency & trust7%8.85157Muse Code +6
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 57.4/100C 61.3/100

Facts side by side

FactAntigravity CLIMuse Code
KindAgent harnessAgent harness
VendorGoogleMeta
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumPaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary. 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 PolicyProprietary binary, used under the Meta Model API Terms of Service, which cover Meta's coding harness. Subscriptions are also under the Meta Subscription Terms of Service. The TypeScript and Python SDKs in the linked repository are MIT.
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-082026-10-11
Terms last updatedno date given
Privacy policy last updated2026-10-01couldn't be read
Customer content may train modelsyes, with an opt-out
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularitynone63k npm/wk

Verdicts

Antigravity CLI

Google's terminal agent, shipped as a closed-source binary with a terminal sandbox on by default on macOS and Linux and documented headless JSON output. Interactions are used to improve Google products unless users opt out, and a headless run exits 0 when a tool is denied.

Muse Code

Muse Code runs with approvals and an OS sandbox on by default, per-host network approval, an append-only event log and a headless mode with documented exit codes. It is the only route to Muse Wonder Full. It is closed source with undated release notes and no free route, and subscriptions allow training on code unless Contributor mode is turned off.

Before you call either

Antigravity CLI

  1. Read the status field from --output-format json and read stderr too. A tool refused for lack of approval still exits 0
  2. Pre-approve each shell command and tool a headless run needs with action(target) rules under permissions.allow in ~/.gemini/antigravity-cli/settings.json, because headless runs cannot ask
  3. Export GEMINI_API_KEY after setting modelProvider to gemini. The CLI won't start when the key is missing, and setting the variable alone has no effect
  4. Turn off Enable Telemetry in the Account settings before running on private repositories if Interactions should not be used for product improvement
  5. Set --print-timeout explicitly. The docs give a five-minute default, while agy --help shows 0s

Muse Code

  1. Set META_API_KEY for headless runs. Browser sign-in isn't available in CI or for Meta Managed Accounts
  2. Gate on your own test command, not the exit code. muse exec returns 0 when the turn completes even if tests still fail
  3. Pass --max-model-steps on unattended runs so a stuck task can't loop
  4. Prefer --disable-approval to --yolo in CI so the sandbox stays on. On Linux the runner needs a working bubblewrap and a non-musl build
  5. Turn Contributor mode off in /settings before a subscription session touches private code

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Antigravity CLI or Muse Code?

Muse Code scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against Antigravity CLI's 57.4 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Antigravity CLI leads on payments & pricing.

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