Google Is Killing Jules. Sessions End November 11, It Goes Read-Only, and It Shuts Down December 31. The Export Script Hits Undocumented APIs and Dumps Env Vars in Plaintext.
Google's Jules changelog for October 29 says the coding agent winds down December 31, 2026, with new sessions ending November 11 and read-only access through year end. Learnings move into Google Antigravity, with no one-to-one migration promised. The official export path is the Jules CLI plus a prompt you paste into another agent; Google's own notes say that prompt pulls settings, env vars, and memories from an internal RPC endpoint and sessions from undocumented REST endpoints, and writes env-variables.json in plaintext. Code, branches, and pull requests stay in GitHub. We read the changelog.
By T.W. Ghost
Google is shutting down Jules, its asynchronous coding agent. The changelog entry dated today, October 29, 2026, gives three dates: new sessions end November 11, the product goes read-only after that, and it winds down on December 31. Google says what Jules learned feeds into Antigravity, its newer agent product. It does not say your Jules data will arrive there.
Getting the data out is on you, and Google's own instructions carry two warnings. The export path is to install the @google/jules CLI, log in, and paste Google's export prompt into a coding agent of your choice; Google names Claude Code as an example. The prompt, by the changelog's own "problems" section, pulls settings, environment variables, and memories from an internal $rpc endpoint and sessions from undocumented REST endpoints under aida.googleapis.com. It writes env-variables.json with the values in plaintext, and the changelog tells you to keep the output folder private. Code, branches, and pull requests are in GitHub already and need no export. We read the changelog. Here is what held up.
The Dates and the Dump
| Jules wind-down | |
|---|---|
| Announced | October 29, 2026 (changelog) |
| New sessions end | November 11, 2026 |
| Read-only | November 11 through December 31 |
| Shutdown | December 31, 2026 |
| Successor | Google Antigravity receives "learnings"; no 1:1 import promised |
| Export | Jules CLI plus a pasted agent prompt |
| Export covers | Settings, env vars, scheduled tasks, repos, memories, sessions and patches |
| How it works | Internal $rpc endpoint; undocumented REST under aida.googleapis.com (Google's note) |
| Secrets | env-variables.json in plaintext; keep the folder private (Google's note) |
| Stays in GitHub | Code, branches, pull requests |
The official export runs on endpoints Google says are undocumented. That is Google's description of its own script. It may work today and not next week, and nothing obliges those endpoints to survive to December 31.
The export folder is a credentials file. Every environment variable Jules held, written out unencrypted, in a directory the instructions ask you to protect. Treat it the way you would treat a leaked .env, because that is what it is.
"Learnings" is not "data." Google's sentence about Antigravity is about what the team learned building Jules. There is no statement that Antigravity will ingest a Jules export.
Verified vs Unconfirmed: The Scorecard
| Claim | Verdict |
|---|---|
| Wind-down Dec 31, 2026; sessions until Nov 11; read-only after | Verified (Jules changelog) |
| Learnings move to Antigravity | Verified as Google's wording |
| Export via CLI plus pasted agent prompt; covers settings, env vars, tasks, repos, memories, sessions | Verified (changelog) |
Script uses undocumented $rpc and aida.googleapis.com endpoints | Verified (Google's own problems section) |
env-variables.json plaintext warning | Verified (changelog) |
| Antigravity imports a Jules export | Unverified (no such claim) |
| A larger Antigravity launch week | Press (unverified) |
What To Do
Export before November 11 if you need writable sessions to finish anything, and run the export from a machine and directory you control.
Keep the export out of git and rotate every secret in it; any env var that lived in Jules has now been written to disk by a script Google calls undocumented.
The frontier is elsewhere: Antigravity is the product Google is pointing at, and we compared it to Claude Desktop and Codex when it shipped its second version. Our model comparison has the current standings side by side.
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