{"slug": "claude-opus-5-5-and-claude-sonnet-5-5-are-now-available-in-google-antigravity", "title": "Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are now available in Google Antigravity", "summary": "Google Cloud made Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 available in Google Antigravity for Google Cloud customers, with Claude Opus 5.5 positioned for complex work and Claude Sonnet 5.5 as a faster, lower-cost complement. Once an administrator enables the models, developers can select Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 from the model picker alongside Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 4 Argon, and the models apply across Antigravity 2.0, Antigravity CLI and the Antigravity IDE extensions for VS Code, JetBrains IntelliJ and Visual Studio under unified enterprise billing and security. Google Cloud also documented two multi-model patterns: pairing one model family as implementer with another as validator to avoid reinforcing model-specific blind spots, and assigning model tiers (inherit, flash, pro) to subagents via .agents/agents/*.md files so high-volume lookups run on Gemini Flash models.", "body_md": "Whether you are iterating on a quick bug fix or planning a complex migration, different tasks call for different models.\n\nIn keeping with Google Cloud's commitment to an open ecosystem and to give developers the right model for every job, **Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are now available in Google Antigravity for Google Cloud customers.** Claude Opus 5.5 is built for complex work while Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a faster, lower-cost complement.\n\nOnce enabled by an administrator, developers can select Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 directly from the model picker. Administrators can also select Google’s Gemini models, including Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 4 Argon. The models apply across Antigravity 2.0, Antigravity CLI and our recently released [Antigravity IDE extensions](https://antigravity.google/docs/ide/extensions/) for VS Code, JetBrains IntelliJ, and Visual Studio. This lets you choose the right model for the job, under a unified enterprise billing and security boundary.\n\nIn this post, we’ll share two engineering patterns for building in Antigravity using these models. To view the entire list of models supported in Antigravity across subscriptions, see our documentation [here](https://antigravity.google/docs/models/).\n\nHaving multiple model families available inside the same agent harness unlocks practical multi-model workflows that improve code quality while controlling latency and cost.\n\nWhen building agentic loops or multi-step graph workflows, using the same model to both write code and review its own output can reinforce model-specific blind spots. Pairing two distinct model families, one as the implementer and another as the validator (judge), provides independent verification before moving to the next stage of a workflow.\n\nIn Antigravity, you can run this pattern either interactively or via automated subagents:\n\n`Claude Opus 5.5` or `Gemini 4 Argon` to design and implement a multi-file change.`/model` check in the CLI, to have a different model family critique the implementation against your test suite and requirements.\nComplex engineering tasks often combine a few high-reasoning decisions with dozens of high-volume, mechanical lookups (searching files, grepping logs, checking lint output, or classifying test failures). Running every lookup on a frontier model can increase both latency and spend.\n\nAntigravity's Subagent customization system (`.agents/agents/*.md`) lets you assign specific model tiers (` inherit`, `flash`, or `pro`) to specialized subagents. When your primary session is running a more powerful model.\n\nSubagents configured with `model: inherit` use your active session model for deep reasoning subtasks.\n\nSubagents configured with `model: flash` offload high-speed search, classification, and triage work to Gemini Flash models.\n\nFor example, you can define a fast log-triage subagent in `.agents/agents/test-triager.md`:\n\nAnd a cross-model code reviewer subagent in `.agents/agents/gemini-judge.md`:\n\nWith this setup, you can delegate rapid test-and-classify loops to `test-triager` and trigger `cross-model-judge` to validate the final diff, combining the strengths of each model in a single workflow.\n\nClaude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are available now for Google Cloud customers using Antigravity:\n\nNote: Lightweight first-party Gemini models continue to run in the background to handle high-frequency client-side coordination, such as context management and summaries. They consume first-party tokens and can incur charges.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-opus-5-5-and-claude-sonnet-5-5-are-now-available-in-google-antigravity", "canonical_source": "https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/claude-opus-55-and-claude-sonnet-55-available-in-antigravity/", "published_at": "2026-10-20 16:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-20 19:46:07.515463+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-agents", "large-language-models", "developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Google Cloud", "Anthropic", "Claude Opus 5.5", "Claude Sonnet 5.5", "Google Antigravity", "Gemini 3.8 Flash", "Gemini 4 Argon", "Antigravity 2.0"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-opus-5-5-and-claude-sonnet-5-5-are-now-available-in-google-antigravity", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-opus-5-5-and-claude-sonnet-5-5-are-now-available-in-google-antigravity.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-opus-5-5-and-claude-sonnet-5-5-are-now-available-in-google-antigravity.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-opus-5-5-and-claude-sonnet-5-5-are-now-available-in-google-antigravity.jsonld"}}