Google's Antigravity has its own Remote Control, since August 21, 2026. Turn it on in the Antigravity desktop app or the agy CLI, and any browser can open the sessions running on that machine: the conversations, the plans, the artifacts, with a push notification on your phone when an agent needs you. For most people searching “Antigravity from my phone”, that is the answer. This page covers Google's own routes first, what Remote Control needs and where it stops, and then a second route: AFK Pilot, which runs Grok Build, Muse Code, DeepSeek, Codex, Claude Code and Google's Antigravity on your own computer, and puts them on your phone.
I build AFK Pilot. Antigravity and its Remote Control are Google's, and where they fit you should use them. AFK Pilot is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google, SpaceXAI (formerly xAI), Meta, DeepSeek, OpenAI or Anthropic.
Last updated: November 5, 2026.
At a Glance
Google's Remote Control. Part of Antigravity since August 21, 2026. It drives the sessions in Antigravity's desktop app and CLI from any browser, with the same Google account, an instance switcher across your machines, and push notifications on the phone.
What it needs. Remote Control turned on and allowed for your account, the same Google account on both ends, and a host that stays awake and online. For a machine nobody sits at, the CLI runs as a headless daemon on Linux, macOS and Windows.
Where it stops. It reaches Antigravity's own agent only, the browser changes settings only for CLI sessions, and Google's docs name the desktop app and the CLI as the surfaces it drives.
The other route. AFK Pilot runs Google's Antigravity agent next to Grok Build, Muse Code, DeepSeek, Codex and Claude Code, in VS Code, Cursor or a desktop app, and reaches all of them from any browser. Antigravity is off by default there (turn it on in Settings → Advanced), on your own computer only, connected at the computer, in conversations of AFK Pilot's own.
No computer at all. Google's Remote Agents, rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers since November 3, 2026, run Antigravity conversations in a Google-managed environment, on GitHub repositories, Drive files and uploads rather than your local folders. AFK Pilot Cloud: a dedicated Linux machine with Grok Build, Codex, Claude Code and Muse Code preinstalled, reached from the same browser. DeepSeek and Antigravity are not on Cloud.
Free tier. 1 linked device, 100 remote messages a week, the full chat UI.
Paid. Remote Max, $5 a month, for unlimited linked devices and unlimited remote messages. The Cloud machine preview is included.
Google's Own Routes
Google ships Antigravity five ways, and if Antigravity is the only agent you use, these may be all you need:
The Antigravity app. Google's desktop app for agents (Antigravity 2.0, since May 2026), on macOS, Windows and Linux, where several agents work in parallel across projects. Gemini 4 Argon began rolling out to it on October 13, 2026, for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, per Google.
The Antigravity CLI.
agy, a terminal-first way to run the same agents, on macOS, Linux and Windows. Argon began rolling out there the same day.IDE extensions. Official Antigravity extensions for VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Zed, Xcode and Eclipse (in preview since October 27, 2026), plus Google's standalone Antigravity editor.
Remote Control. Browser access to the sessions in the app and the CLI, since August 21, 2026. The next two sections cover it.
Remote Agents. Conversations that run in a Google-managed environment instead of on your computer, started from the app, the CLI or antigravity.google.com, rolling out since November 3, 2026 to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers on personal Google accounts. They work on GitHub repositories, Drive files and uploads, not your local folders, and no machine of yours has to stay on.
Antigravity has a free individual tier with weekly rate limits; Google AI Pro and Ultra raise them.
What Google's Remote Control Does
Google describes it as a way to connect to and drive your Antigravity desktop sessions and CLI instances from a browser. In the desktop app, open Settings, go to Application, and toggle Enable Remote Control on, optionally with a device name for the machine. In the CLI, type /remote-control in a session or start it with agy --remote-control. Then open the Remote Control dashboard at antigravity.google.com in any browser, sign in with the same Google account, and pick the machine from the instance switcher. You see the conversations, start new agent tasks, review plans and inspect artifacts. On a phone the dashboard installs to the home screen and sends a push notification when an agent finishes or needs your input.
For a machine nobody sits at, the CLI runs as a headless daemon: agy remote-control start, with status and stop to manage it. On Linux it is a systemd user service that starts at boot and keeps running after you sign out. On macOS it starts at login and stops when you sign out. On Windows it starts at boot only from an Administrator install, otherwise at login. The daemon uses the CLI's own sign-in, separate from the desktop app's, which is why one machine can show up twice in the dashboard.
Where Google's Remote Control Stops
Four things decide whether it is enough for you.
It drives Antigravity's own agent. Sessions in the desktop app and the CLI. Google's Remote Control docs do not list the IDE extensions, and other vendors' agents are out of its reach.
The host has to stay awake. Google's troubleshooting starts with checking that the machine is on, online, and not asleep or suspended. An interactive CLI session's connection also ends when you exit that session.
Settings mostly stay at the computer. Google's docs say you can't change settings from the browser and point you to the CLI, though since CLI 1.3.4 (October 13, 2026) the browser's Settings panel opens for CLI sessions and shows the settings the CLI actually uses, and sessions run by
agy remote-control servesave changes made there back to the CLI's settings file.Your account has to allow it. Google's docs name no specific plan, but tell you to check that your plan supports it, and an account or organization policy can block it, with the message “Remote control is not enabled for your account.” On a work account, that is your administrator's switch.
It is also not Remote SSH. It drives sessions on the machine where Antigravity runs. To work on a server, install the CLI there and start its daemon; the dashboard then lists that server like any other machine.
The Other Route: Antigravity Next to Your Other Agents
If Antigravity is one of several agents you use, there is a second way. The AFK Pilot extension (previously Grok Build for VS Code) runs each vendor's own agent in VS Code or Cursor, and Grok Build Desktop (Community) does the same as a standalone app: Grok Build, Muse Code, DeepSeek, Codex, Claude Code and Google's Antigravity. For Antigravity it runs Google's official ACP server, which Google publishes in the Agent Client Protocol registry. Pair the computer once with AFK Pilot and every agent you have connected is in any browser, with real file edits from the phone. DeepSeek Harness, DeepSeek's official agent harness, runs in both too, and is also switched on in Settings → Advanced.
In AFK Pilot, Antigravity comes with conditions:
Its own conversations. AFK Pilot starts Antigravity conversations of its own, which Google's ACP server keeps in its own folder. It does not open or remote-control the sessions you started in Google's Antigravity app or CLI. For those, use Google's Remote Control.
Off by default. Turn it on in Settings → Advanced, then connect it in Settings → Providers: Sign in with Google, or paste a Gemini API key. The key stays in AFK Pilot's secure storage and never reaches the agent's environment.
Gemini 4 Argon with a key. With a Gemini API key, a new conversation starts on Gemini 4 Argon. The Google account I tested showed Gemini 3.8 Flash instead, so don't count on a Google sign-in for Argon here.
Connected at the computer. Turning it on and signing in happen at the computer, not from the phone. Once it is connected, its conversations reach the phone like any other agent's.
Your own computer only. It is not on AFK Pilot Cloud machines.
Not there yet. No Plan mode, no connectors and no usage meter. On Windows it is slow to start: opening a conversation can take over a minute.
So: if Antigravity is the only agent you run, Google's app and Remote Control are the better tools. AFK Pilot earns its place when Antigravity is one of several agents you want in one window and on one phone.
Set It Up in Four Steps
Install a host. Open Extensions in VS Code or Cursor, search “AFK Pilot” or the ID
grok-vscode-phuryn, and install. Or use Grok Build Desktop (Community), the same interface as a standalone app. Google's Antigravity editor installs the extension from Open VSX too, and may hold you on the last version compatible with its VS Code base; if the install fails with a compatibility error, the FAQ below explains why.Turn on Antigravity. It's off by default: switch it on in Settings → Advanced. Then in Settings → Providers, install and connect it with Sign in with Google, or with a Gemini API key if you want Argon. Connect Grok Build, Muse Code, Codex or Claude Code in the same place if you use them (DeepSeek, like Antigravity, is switched on in Settings → Advanced first); the app walks you through installing each CLI, one click per step.
Link this device. In AFK Pilot, click the phone button in the chat's top bar and choose Sign in and link this machine. The approval page opens in your browser. If the code is showing on a machine you are not sitting at, open /link and type it in by hand.
Open it on your phone. Visit afkpilot.com on the phone, sign in, and tap Install app to keep it one tap away.
That is the whole setup. There is no tunnel to keep alive, no port to forward, and no VPN to join.
What You Can Do From the Phone
It is the same session, not a separate agent and not a chatbot discussing your code from a distance. The workspace, the repository, and the conversation history are the ones open on your computer.
Send new work, not just read output
Watch tool calls and file exploration stream live
Approve permission prompts and answer the agent's questions
Browse the project's files and open, edit and save a text file
See every project and its recent conversations side by side, and start one in any of them without switching first
Switch the model, and the reasoning effort where the agent offers it
Fork a conversation to try a different direction without losing the original
Connect an agent from the phone: Grok Build and Codex by device code (Codex where its CLI and your account allow it), Claude Code by pasting the code Anthropic shows you, Muse Code by Meta's link and short code (Antigravity and DeepSeek are the exceptions: turn them on and connect them at the computer first)
Sign in to GitHub and clone a repository, by the GitHub CLI's device code or a fine-grained token the app never stores
The file panel is a real editor, not a viewer. Several files open as tabs, and on a wide screen they sit beside the chat. Text files up to 2 MiB open, images preview only, and there is no create, delete, or rename. If the agent changed a file underneath you while you were typing, you get a choice between reloading and overwriting rather than a silent clobber.
Images work in both directions. Videos never leave your machine.
What This Is Not
Not remote control of your Antigravity app sessions. AFK Pilot's Antigravity conversations are its own. To reach the sessions in Google's app or CLI, use Google's Remote Control, above.
Not a mobile IDE. You are steering an agent and making small edits, not doing a refactor by hand on a 6-inch screen.
Not a Google product. Antigravity, its ACP server and its Remote Control are Google's. AFK Pilot is mine, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google, SpaceXAI, Meta, DeepSeek, OpenAI or Anthropic.
Not a way around your machine sleeping, unless you take the Cloud machine. On your own hardware the extension holds off idle sleep while a device is linked, so a turn you started from the phone is not cut short by the screensaver, but a closed lid still suspends on every operating system, and Google's Remote Control has the same requirement (Google's Remote Agents, which run in the cloud, do not). AFK Pilot Cloud removes it: the machine sleeps on its own between sessions and wakes when you open it. It carries Grok Build, Codex, Claude Code and Muse Code, not DeepSeek or Antigravity.
Privacy and What Leaves Your Machine
Messages are relayed in memory and never stored on our servers. Every linked device binds to your account and stays revocable at any time, so a lost phone is a revocation rather than an incident.
This is a relay, so your prompts and the agent's replies do pass through it in transit. Your files stay on your machine, where the agent reads them locally. If a third-party relay is outside your threat model, the self-hosted Tailscale projects listed on the general remote control page keep every byte on hardware you control, at the cost of a network setup you have to maintain. I would rather tell you that here than have you discover the architecture later.
Pricing
The free tier is one linked device and 100 remote messages a week, with the full chat interface. Remote Max is $5 a month and removes both limits. A fair-use burst cap of 20 messages a minute applies on every plan, and messages inside the editor itself are never limited.
The extension and the desktop app are free. Each agent runs on its own account, subscription or API key, and AFK Pilot adds no charge to it: Antigravity on your Google account or a Gemini API key, and Grok Build free to try with usage limits on any X or Grok account, with SuperGrok, X Premium+, or an xAI API key for sustained use. AFK Pilot Cloud is in preview and included with Remote Max for now. Google's Remote Control is part of Antigravity, on your Google account.
FAQ
Can I use Antigravity from my phone?
Yes, three ways. Google's Remote Control opens the sessions running in your Antigravity desktop app or CLI in any browser, with push notifications. Google's Remote Agents, rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, run conversations in the cloud that you open at antigravity.google.com in any browser. AFK Pilot runs its own Antigravity conversations, next to Grok Build, Muse Code, DeepSeek, Codex and Claude Code, and puts those on your phone; Antigravity there is off by default and connected at the computer.
Does Antigravity have a mobile app?
Not one built for phones. Google's Antigravity app is on Google Play, but it is made for Google's Googlebook laptops, and reviewers in October found it barely usable on a phone. Remote Control is a web app you can install to the phone's home screen, with push notifications when an agent needs you. AFK Pilot is the same kind of thing (afkpilot.com installs as an app), for every agent you have connected.
How do I turn on Antigravity Remote Control?
In the desktop app: Settings → Application → Enable Remote Control. In the CLI: /remote-control in a session, agy --remote-control at start, or agy remote-control start for a headless daemon. Then sign in to the dashboard at antigravity.google.com with the same Google account and pick the machine.
Why does it say “Remote control is not enabled for your account”?
Google's docs say an account or organization policy has not enabled the feature. On a work or school account, ask your administrator. Also check that your Google plan supports Remote Control.
Does Antigravity Remote Control work when my laptop is closed?
No. The host has to be awake and online; Google's troubleshooting page says so first. The headless daemon is Google's answer for a server, and Google's Remote Agents, rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers since November 3, 2026, run conversations in the cloud, on GitHub repositories and uploads rather than your local folders. AFK Pilot Cloud is mine: a dedicated Linux machine that sleeps on its own and wakes when you open it, so nothing of yours has to stay on. It runs Grok Build, Codex, Claude Code and Muse Code; DeepSeek and Antigravity do not run there.
Is Antigravity Remote Control the same as Remote SSH?
No. Remote Control drives sessions on the machine where Antigravity runs, from a browser. To work on a server, run the Antigravity CLI there with its headless daemon, and the dashboard reaches it like any other machine.
Does Antigravity work with VS Code?
Yes. Google ships an official Antigravity extension for VS Code, and others for Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Zed, Xcode and Eclipse. AFK Pilot also runs Antigravity's agent inside VS Code and Cursor, next to your other agents, once you turn it on in Settings → Advanced.
Does this control Gemini in Antigravity?
It runs Antigravity's agent, with Gemini models, in conversations of its own. With a Gemini API key a new conversation starts on Gemini 4 Argon; the Google account I tested showed only Gemini 3.8 Flash. It does not take over the sessions in Google's Antigravity app. Google's Remote Control does that, and Google is rolling Argon out in its own app and CLI to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
I get "Extension is not compatible with Code 2.0.6. Extension requires: ^1.90.0". How do I fix it?
Update Antigravity, then install the extension normally. Antigravity 2.0.x reported its own product version, 2.0.x, to the extension host instead of the VS Code base version it is built on, so every extension declaring a ^1.x engine range was rejected. That was not specific to this extension, and Google fixed it in a later release. Its VS Code base can still trail VS Code's own, so Google's Antigravity editor may hold you on the last extension version compatible with that base.
Can I edit files remotely?
Yes. You can browse the project tree and open, edit and save a text file from the phone, with several files open as tabs at once. Images are preview only, text files cap at 2 MiB, and creating, deleting, and renaming are not available from the remote surface.
Is it free?
There is a free tier: one linked device and 100 remote messages a week, and Remote Max is $5 a month for unlimited devices and messages. The extension itself is free to install. Each agent runs on its own account or key: Antigravity on a Google account or a Gemini API key, and the Grok Build agent is free to try with usage limits on any X or Grok account.
Does it work on iPhone and Android?
Yes. It runs in any modern mobile browser and installs as an app on both.
Do I need a tunnel or a VPN?
No. You pair once with a one-time code, and the extension dials out to the service, so there is nothing to forward and nothing to keep running. No tunnels, no config.
Is my code sent to a server?
Your prompts and the agent's replies are relayed in memory and never stored on our servers. Your files stay on your machine, where the agent reads them locally. Videos never leave your machine.
Are there other Antigravity remote apps?
Yes. Before Google shipped Remote Control, developers built their own: Open VSX extensions, Telegram bridges and GitHub projects that put the Antigravity chat on a phone. They are unofficial and not Google's. For the sessions in Google's own app, Remote Control is now the supported route.
Does the same setup work in VS Code or Cursor?
Yes. AFK Pilot runs in VS Code and Cursor, and as Grok Build Desktop (Community) without an editor, and the remote connects through whichever one you use. Other VS Code-based editors such as Google's Antigravity editor install it from Open VSX, and may hold you on the last version compatible with their VS Code base. Cursor has its own wrinkle worth reading first: Cursor Remote Control. The plain VS Code version: Grok Remote Control.
AFK Pilot exists because a user asked for it, which is most of what I have to say about product work. I write that up here: what building in the open teaches me, not the tool tour.
AFK Pilot and Grok Build Desktop (Community) are unofficial community projects by Pawel Huryn, not affiliated with or endorsed by SpaceXAI (formerly xAI), Meta, DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic or Google. Antigravity and Gemini are trademarks of Google. Grok, Grok Build, and xAI are trademarks of xAI. Muse Code is a trademark of Meta; DeepSeek of DeepSeek; Codex of OpenAI; Claude and Claude Code of Anthropic.