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HOOKS — Managed Agents now support environment hooks. Custom scripts run before or after a tool call inside the sandbox, letting you validate, log, or trigger external pipelines at the boundaryDEFAULT — The antigravity-preview-05-2026 agent now runs Gemini 3.6 Flash by default. No code changes needed; your next interaction picks it upBUDGET — Token budgets, explicit model selection, scheduled triggers, and free-tier access have landed for Managed Agents, along with an API for managing sandbox environments directlyBG — The July 7 release added long-running background tasks and remote MCP server integration. The new hooks build directly on that foundationSUNSET — Older image generation models shut down August 17, and gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview follows on August 31. Worth confirming your migration path earlySAMPLING — The temperature, top_p, and top_k sampling parameters are now deprecated. Separately, gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview gained streaming support for speech generationHOOKS — Managed Agents now support environment hooks. Custom scripts run before or after a tool call inside the sandbox, letting you validate, log, or trigger external pipelines at the boundaryDEFAULT — The antigravity-preview-05-2026 agent now runs Gemini 3.6 Flash by default. No code changes needed; your next interaction picks it upBUDGET — Token budgets, explicit model selection, scheduled triggers, and free-tier access have landed for Managed Agents, along with an API for managing sandbox environments directlyBG — The July 7 release added long-running background tasks and remote MCP server integration. The new hooks build directly on that foundationSUNSET — Older image generation models shut down August 17, and gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview follows on August 31. Worth confirming your migration path earlySAMPLING — The temperature, top_p, and top_k sampling parameters are now deprecated. Separately, gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview gained streaming support for speech generation
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Gemini API/2026-08-01Advanced

When Sampling Parameters Were Deprecated, Diversity Broke Before Determinism Did

Deprecating temperature, top_p and top_k hurt the diversity-generating side of my pipeline, not the deterministic side. Counting real call sites, moving diversity to the input layer, and measuring effective diversity.

Gemini API/2026-06-30Advanced

Folding Scattered Call Sites Into One Front Door: Migrating to the Interactions API for Automation

With the Interactions API now generally available, Gemini's calls can settle behind a single entry point. Here is a migration design for folding scattered call sites — generateContent, Batch, and homegrown agent loops — into one front door without breaking anything, complete with a working adapter layer.

Gemini API/2026-06-17Intermediate

Moving My Automation Off the Gemini CLI Before the June 18 Shutdown

On June 18, the Gemini CLI stops responding for hosted plans. Here is how I moved unattended scripts that called gemini from the shell over to the google-genai SDK, with structured output, retries, and cost measurement built in.

Gemini Dev/2026-06-15Advanced

Getting Ready for the Gemini CLI and Code Assist Personal Shutdown: A June 18 Migration Inventory

On June 18, personal access to Gemini CLI and Code Assist stops. Here is how I found every place I depended on it and moved each one to either Antigravity CLI or direct API calls, using my own setup as the example.

Gemini API/2026-06-12Intermediate

Gemini Interactions API: Fixing What Broke When the Legacy outputs Schema Was Removed on June 6

Google removed the Gemini Interactions API legacy outputs schema on June 6, 2026. A symptom-based walkthrough of migrating to steps and the new response_format.

Gemini API/2026-05-11Intermediate

Gemini 3.2 API Suddenly Broke — 5 Common Errors and How to Fix Them

Switched to Gemini 3.2 API and hit a wall? This guide covers 5 common errors developers encounter during migration — wrong model IDs, rate limits, context overflow, streaming interruptions, and Function Calling schema failures — with working code fixes.

Gemini API/2026-05-01Intermediate

Migrating Working Code from AI Studio to Vertex AI: A Solo Developer's Hands-On Walkthrough

What actually changes when you move existing Gemini API code from AI Studio to Vertex AI. Includes side-by-side code diffs for SDK init, auth, and response parsing.

Gemini API/2026-04-30Intermediate

Migrating to @google/genai: Seven Errors That Will Eat Your Afternoon

A field-tested guide to the seven errors you are most likely to hit when migrating from @google/generative-ai to @google/genai, with copy-paste fixes for Node.js and TypeScript codebases.