Google Jules shutdown: the coding agent goes away on December 31

On October 29, Google Labs announced the Google Jules shutdown: its asynchronous coding agent is going away. According to the “Jules Turndown” entry in the Jules changelog, the service will be switched off on December 31, 2026, and we can finish our sessions until November 11.

What exactly is Google shutting down?

Jules is an agent you gave a task in a GitHub repository; it worked in the background and handed back finished changes. The first changelog entry, “Jules is here”, dates from May 19, 2025. On August 6, 2025, Jules came out of beta with (according to that entry) more than 140,000 public commits behind it.

In 2026 it still picked up, among other things, MCP support, automatic CI failure fixing and the Gemini 3.1 Pro model. The Gemini 3.1 Pro entry is from March 9, and the next one is already the shutdown notice.

Here’s the timeline:

1. until November 11, 2026 Jules works normally and we can finish sessions we’ve started,
2. from November 11 to the end of the year Jules is available read-only,
3. on December 31, 2026 the service goes away.

In an email to users, Google Labs adds that Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers will no longer have Jules in their plan after December 31, while the other subscription benefits stay the same.

Why is Google shutting down Jules?

The official reason is tidying up its own portfolio: Google wants to, quote, “unify our agentic coding efforts”, meaning bring its work on coding agents together in one place. The announcement describes Jules as an experiment whose lessons are flowing into other Google products, including Google Antigravity.

Antigravity is Google’s platform for so-called “agentic development”, with an app for managing many agents at once, a CLI, an IDE and an SDK. In the email about the Jules shutdown, Google Labs lists long-running agents, many agents working in parallel and scheduled tasks, which is exactly what a lot of people used Jules for.

How do you export your data from Jules?

Good news first: code, branches and pull requests stay on GitHub, so we won’t lose anything from our repositories. The export only covers what Jules kept on its side: account settings, environment variables, scheduled tasks, connected repositories, memories, setup scripts and session history.

According to the changelog, the export goes like this:

1. install Jules Tools: npm install -g @google/jules,
2. log in: jules login,
3. in your home directory, start a CLI coding agent (Google gives Claude Code as an example) and paste the export prompt from the changelog.

The agent checks the configuration, runs the export script and saves everything to the ~/jules-export folder. Inside you’ll find, among others, sources.json, user-settings.json, env-variables.json, scheduled-tasks.json and sessions.json, plus a separate folder for each repository and each session (with a summary, an activity log and diffs).

If you used Jules with GitHub, you need to connect your GitHub account before exporting, otherwise the export will be missing the repository data (the env-variables.json file contains the values of your environment variables, so keep this folder to yourself and never push it to a repository; more in the article on AI agent security).

Where to move after the Google Jules shutdown?

Google, of course, points to Antigravity. According to the Antigravity pricing page, the plan for individuals costs $0 a month and has basic weekly limits. Google AI Pro and Ultra give higher limits and a pool of AI credits, and businesses pay from $30 per seat per month (or pay-as-you-go). Antigravity runs on macOS, Windows, Linux and Googlebooks.

But Antigravity isn’t the only option. If we’re moving our tasks anyway, it’s a good moment to try other agent harnesses too, e.g. Claude Code or OpenCode.

FAQ

When will Google Jules stop working?

December 31, 2026. Until November 11, 2026 it works normally, and from November 11 to the end of the year it’s read-only.

Will I lose the code Jules wrote?

No. Code, branches and pull requests are on GitHub and they stay there. Only the data kept in Jules itself (settings, memories, session history) will be lost, unless we export it with Jules Tools.

What can replace Jules?

Google suggests Antigravity, which is available to individuals for $0 with basic weekly limits. Other agent harnesses, such as Claude Code, are an alternative.