Driving Agy Sessions

Driving agy Sessions

Drive Google Antigravity (agy) coding sessions as "workers" you launch, prompt, wait on, read, and hand off, mirroring claude-session-driver (csd) so the vocabulary is familiar: launch, send, converse, wait-for-turn, status, read-turn, read-events, stop, handoff.

How agy differs from csd

csd drives claude/codex/pi as persistent TUIs in tmux. agy doesn't need that: it has agy -p <prompt> (one-shot, blocks until the turn finishes and prints the reply) plus agy --conversation <id> (resume by id). So an agy worker is a sequence of resumable one-shots, no tmux, no persistent pane. Turn-end is the process exiting, so converse just blocks and returns the reply.

Workers run with --dangerously-skip-permissions (auto-approve tools). Drive only sandboxed/trusted tasks.

The CLI

scripts/claude-session-driver-agy is a self-contained Node CLI (agy and node on PATH; no build). All state lives under /tmp/agy-workers/<name>/ (override with AGY_WORKER_DIR). Reference the script by its plugin path.

SD="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/claude-session-driver-agy"

Launch

node "$SD" launch my-task /path/to/project

Sets up the worker and writes a workspace .agents/hooks.json so agy's tool hooks (PreToolUse/PostToolUse) stream into the worker's event log.

Converse (the typical case)

node "$SD" converse my-task "Refactor the auth module" 300

Sends the prompt, blocks until agy finishes, prints the reply on stdout. The conversation id is learned on the first turn and reused, so context carries across calls:

node "$SD" converse my-task "Now add tests for expired tokens" 300

Add --with-turn to render the full turn (tool calls + results) as markdown instead of the bare reply.

Lower-level control

node "$SD" send my-task "Run the failing tests"   # background, returns immediately
node "$SD" wait-for-turn my-task 600              # block until it finishes
node "$SD" status my-task                         # idle | working | gone
node "$SD" read-turn my-task --full               # last turn as markdown
node "$SD" read-events my-task                    # tool-event JSONL

Hand off to a human

node "$SD" handoff my-task
# prints:  agy --conversation <id>   (run from the worker's cwd)

Stop

node "$SD" stop my-task

Kills any in-flight send, removes the workspace hooks, and deletes worker state.

Verifying a worker's output

converse/read-turn return whatever agy reports, verbatim, including when agy is confidently wrong. For correctness-critical handoffs, verify the artifact on disk, not agy's prose self-report.

Notes / limitations

• Auth comes from the operator's real ~/.gemini (the agy/Gemini login). No per-worker auth staging yet.
• Env vars. AGY_BIN overrides the agy binary (default agy); AGY_WORKER_DIR overrides the worker-state root (default /tmp/agy-workers).
• One worker per cwd. agy reads a single .agents/hooks.json per directory, so launch refuses a cwd that already has a different worker's hooks. Give each concurrent worker its own cwd.
• One controller per worker. Concurrent sends to the same worker collide.
• Workspace hooks are written into the project's .agents/hooks.json; stop removes the file. Add .agents/ to the project's gitignore if needed.
• No-tool turns still resolve: the conversation id is recovered from agy's session store even when no tool hook fired.