Connect Google Antigravity IDE to Google’s Data Cloud services

The AI state of the art is shifting rapidly from simple chat interfaces to autonomous agents capable of planning, executing, and refining complex workflows. In this new landscape, the ability to ground these intelligent agents in your enterprise data is key to unlocking true business value. Google Cloud is at the forefront of this shift, empowering you to build robust, data-driven applications quickly and accurately.

Last month, Google announced Antigravity, an AI-first integrated development environment (IDE). And now, you can now give the AI agents you build in Antigravity direct, secure access to the trusted data infrastructure that powers your organization, turning abstract reasoning into concrete, data-aware action. With Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers powered by MCP Toolbox for Databases now available within Antigravity, you can securely connect your AI agents to services like AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Spanner, Cloud SQL, Looker and others within Google’s Data Cloud, all within your development workflow.

Why use MCP in Antigravity?

We designed Antigravity to keep you in the flow, but the power of an AI agent is limited by what it “knows.” To build truly useful applications, your agent needs to understand your data. MCP acts as the universal translator. You can think of it like a USB-C port for AI. It allows the LLMs in your IDE to plug into your data sources in a standardized way. By integrating pre-built MCP servers directly into Antigravity, you don’t need to perform any manual configuration. Your agents can now converse directly with your databases, helping you build and iterate faster without ever leaving the IDE.

Getting started with MCP servers

In Antigravity, connecting an agent to your data is a UI-driven experience, eliminating the challenges we’ve all faced when wrestling with complex configuration files just to get a database connection running. Here’s how to get up and running.

1. Discover and launch

You can find MCP servers for Google Cloud in the Antigravity MCP Store. Search for the service you need, such as “AlloyDB for PostgreSQL” or “BigQuery,” and click on Install to start the setup process.