Google Antigravity Adds Knowledge Work Interface for Non-Coders

Google says "tens of thousands of Googlers outside software engineering" now rely on its Antigravity agent every week, and the company has responded by shipping a dedicated "Knowledge Work" interface alongside the existing Software Engineering layout.

Antigravity launched with a coding focus, but Google has observed how people, including its own employees, use it for "far more than code." Daily sessions increasingly center on deep research, data analysis, drafting documents and presentations, prototyping designs, and automating everyday workflows. The internal user base spans sales, finance, legal, product, design, research, marketing, and operations.

The underlying agent is unchanged. Google states it keeps "full access to frontier models, local files, plugins, skills, rules, custom agents, and MCP servers." What changes is the surface those users see.

What does the Knowledge Work interface change for practitioners?

The new mode strips out developer machinery and reframes the workspace around documents and artifacts rather than Git workflows. The differences fall into five areas:

• Projects and folders: Software Engineering prompts for Local or New worktree mode on Git repositories and shows Git branch pickers, GitHub controls, and Open in IDE. Knowledge Work runs directly in project folders, hides those controls, and keeps forks in the current folder via a "Fork conversation in this folder" action.
• Conversations and approvals: The engineering view keeps expandable "Worked for" tool groups, inline code diffs, line counts, and subagent cards, with raw command-rule editors in permission prompts. Knowledge Work shows a live progress line while the agent works, then clears it, and presents permission prompts as plain-language summaries.
• Side and Overview panels: Engineering exposes Review, Files, Terminal, Extensions, and a Customize Sections menu, plus sections for Subagents, Background Tasks, Goals, Documents, Artifacts, Links, Modified Files, and Uploads. Knowledge Work hides the Overview until the conversation produces output, omits Review, Terminal, and Customize Sections, renames the Files tree "Folders," and focuses on Documents, Artifacts, Links, Uploads, and Background Tasks.
• Customizations: Engineering lists installed Plugins, Skills & Rules, Custom Agents, and MCP Servers. Knowledge Work lists Plugins only, while skills, rules, custom agents, and MCP tools keep running in the background.
• Settings: Engineering displays Terminal, Workspaces, and Labs subsections and detailed permission rules directly. Knowledge Work moves advanced permission rules and developer subsections behind Advanced Settings in Settings > General and project settings, and hides the Appearance > Conversation Steps toggle and code syntax preview.

The rollout follows a major Antigravity update last week. Users enable the new layout under Settings > General > Interface Layout, and a new onboarding flow appears on first launch.

For marketers, analysts, and legal teams already drafting and researching inside Antigravity, the practical payoff is a lower barrier to entry: the same agent, minus the Git-and-terminal furniture they never used.