Google kills Jules: its AI coder goes dark on December 31

Google is shutting down Jules, its autonomous coding agent. The news landed on the evening of October 29 from the project's official account and in its changelog, under the title "Jules Turndown".

The dates are tight. Open sessions can be finished until November 11, 2026, from November 12 the service goes read-only, and on December 31 Jules is switched off for good. Users are invited to export everything the agent knows about their work into a local folder: account settings, environment variables, scheduled tasks, connected repositories, memories, setup scripts and every session with its prompt, plan, activity log and code patches. Code, branches and pull requests already live on GitHub, so the shutdown doesn't touch them.

Jules launched in December 2024 to take over the chores developers would rather skip. It cloned a repo into a cloud VM, installed dependencies, split the task into steps, ran tests and showed a diff. Google now calls it an experiment that showed where agentic development is headed.

The lessons are moving to Google Antigravity, the company's agent-first development platform. Google promises to combine Jules' strength, remote background tasks, with an environment where agents work right next to the developer. A new agent called Chief of Staff has already been spotted inside Antigravity.

Under two years is a fairly typical lifespan for a standalone Google product. If you kept scheduled tasks in Jules, export them before November 11, not on the last day.