Google Antigravity's subagent commands compared: /swarm, /boost, /spawn and when to use each
fhinkel · x · 2026-11-13
Google engineer Fieke Hinkel breaks down the confusingly similar multi-agent commands in Antigravity — subagents, /boost, /swarm, and /teamwork — with a table showing exactly how they differ.
She highlights /spawn as her daily workhorse: you can start it and walk away, and it does good work without a super long prompt or constant feedback (with the disclaimer that she has unlimited tokens at work). The post links the official docs for /swarm, which runs a team of named agents that split a task, work in parallel, and coordinate on a shared message board — suited to tasks that divide cleanly across files/packages, or when you want a second agent to review and test changes first.
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