Lifecycle hooks, triggers, and session persistence

The SDK provides mechanisms for background event scheduling, session state persistence, lifecycle hooks, and token cost auditing.

Lifecycle hooks and cost auditing

You can intercept agent turns, handle tool errors, and audit token usage using lifecycle hook decorators.

For example, you can configure hooks that log user prompts before execution, intercept or modify messages, or handle exceptions gracefully without crashing the agent:

from google.antigravity import Agent, LocalAgentConfig, hooks, types

@hooks.pre_turn
async def log_turn(prompt: str) -> types.HookResult:
    print(f"User prompt: {prompt}")
    return types.HookResult(allow=True)

@hooks.on_tool_error
async def handle_error(err: Exception) -> None:
    print(f"Tool execution failed: {err}")

config = LocalAgentConfig(hooks=[log_turn, handle_error])

async with Agent(config) as agent:
    response = await agent.chat("Analyze repository status.")
    print(await response.text())

    # Token usage auditing
    if response.usage_metadata:
        print(f"Turn tokens: {response.usage_metadata.total_token_count}")

Triggers

Triggers allow you to run tasks automatically based on specific schedules or events.

For example, you can configure a trigger to monitor service status every 60 seconds:

import asyncio
from google.antigravity import Agent, LocalAgentConfig
from google.antigravity.triggers import every

async def check_status(ctx):
    print("Checking background service status...")

config = LocalAgentConfig(triggers=[every(60, check_status)])

async def main():
    async with Agent(config) as agent:
        print("Agent running. Monitoring status every 60 seconds...")
        await asyncio.sleep(120)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

Session persistence allows you to persist and restore stateful sessions across application restarts. Note that conversation_id must be at least 32 characters long and consist only of alphanumeric characters and hyphens (underscores are not allowed).

To configure storage directories and session identifiers for saving or loading a session:

from google.antigravity import LocalAgentConfig

# conversation_id persists or restores an existing session
conversation_id = "session-12345678901234567890123456789012"

config = LocalAgentConfig(
    save_dir="./sessions",
    conversation_id=conversation_id,
    app_data_dir="/path/to/custom/storage",
)

Sample code

For full working code examples, see the GitHub repository:

Last updated Oct 08, 2026