Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more

Jul 28, 2026

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Managed Agents in Gemini API now default to Gemini 3.6 Flash. New environment hooks let you block, lint, or audit tool calls inside the sandbox. Also, we’ve added budget controls, scheduled triggers, and free tier access.

Philipp Schmid

Member of the Technical Staff, Google DeepMind

Mariano Cocirio

Product Manager, Google DeepMind

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Managed Agents in Gemini API are getting environment hooks, model selection, and free tier access. These capabilities build on our previous release introducing background tasks and remote MCP server integration.

With managed agents in the Gemini Interactions API, a single API call coordinates, reasoning, code execution, package installation, file management, and web retrieval inside an isolated cloud sandbox.

If you're using an AI coding assistant, drop this in your terminal to give it access to the Interactions API skill: npx skills add google-gemini/gemini-skills --skill gemini-interactions-api.

Below are examples using the @google/genai TypeScript/JavaScript SDK. For Python or cURL, check out the Antigravity agent documentation.

npm install @google/genai

Gemini 3.6 Flash is now the default

The antigravity-preview-05-2026 agent now runs Gemini 3.6 Flash by default. No code changes are required. Your next interaction picks it up automatically.

You can also explicitly select models by passing agent_config.model when creating an interaction or managed agent. Use Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite for lower cost, or pin to your model of preference.

import { GoogleGenAI} from "@google/genai";

const client = new GoogleGenAI({});

const interaction = await client.interactions.create({ agent: "antigravity-preview-05-2026", input: "Audit all dependencies in package.json, upgrade outdated packages, and verify the build by running npm test.", environment: "remote", agent_config: { type: "antigravity", model: "gemini-3.5-flash-lite", }, });

console.log(interaction.output_text);

Supported models include: