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Problem

With Antigravity's Sign-in method set to Agent Platform (Vertex AI) and no API key, the runtime authenticates through Google Application Default Credentials. T3 Code stripped GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS from the runtime's environment for every sign-in method. So a service-account key set under the instance's Environment variables, or in the server's own environment, was saved but never reached the runtime, and the runtime fell back to the user ADC file.

Reproduced on main b183048a82 in the web dev server, using a fresh database and a stand-in runtime that records its environment:

1. Add an Antigravity instance on Agent Platform with a GCP project and location, no API key.
2. Add GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS (sensitive) and AGY_ADC_AUTH=true under Environment variables.
3. Click Connect.

The spawned runtime had AGY_ADC_AUTH and AGY_ACP_FORCE_FILE_STORAGE but no GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS. It was also missing when the variable came from the server's own environment.

Change

antigravityEnvironment keeps GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS (and any case alias of it) when the method is Agent Platform and no API key is saved, since ADC is then the selected credential. Every other method, and Agent Platform with an API key, still strips it, so ambient variables still cannot override the selected method. Every other key on the strip list is unchanged. The Antigravity user guide now states this exception: Agent Platform without a saved API key reads GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS from the instance's environment variables or the host, and a saved API key takes precedence.

Scope and approval

Fixes #30413

Triaged via the automated issue flow.

Verification

• New test in apps/server/src/provider/antigravityAuthSupport.test.ts: Antigravity process environment > keeps Application Default Credentials only for Agent Platform without an API key.
  • On main it fails with expected undefined to be '/secrets/key.json'.
  • On this branch it passes, together with the existing tests that require stripping for the other methods. That includes the AntigravityDriver.test.ts harness, which passes the variable through provider env under the default method.
• vp run check:changed passes: format, lint, knip, typecheck, and 28 tests in 2 files.
• Runtime transcript from the real server, configured through Settings > Providers in the web app. Each run spawned a stand-in agy_acp_server.par that writes its environment, then runs apps/server/scripts/acp-mock-agent.ts. Only the relevant lines are shown:

Row	Before b183048a82	After c58a99cee7 (application code identical to head)
Sensitive provider variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS	AGY_ACP_FORCE_FILE_STORAGE=1, AGY_ADC_AUTH=true, no credentials path	adds GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/tmp/…/sa/provider-key.json
Variable in the server's own environment only	AGY_ACP_FORCE_FILE_STORAGE=1, AGY_ADC_AUTH=true, no credentials path	adds GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/tmp/…/sa/key.json
Control: same as row 1 plus an Agent Platform API key	n/a	GOOGLE_API_KEY=<synthetic>, no credentials path (still stripped)

Stand-in runtime (synthetic, not committed)

#!/bin/sh
# Stand-in Antigravity runtime: records its environment, then speaks ACP via the repo's mock agent.
env | sort > /tmp/issue-lead-30413-r1/envdumps/env-$(date +%s%N).txt
export T3_ACP_ANTIGRAVITY=1
exec node ~/wt/issue-30413/apps/server/scripts/acp-mock-agent.ts "$@"

Its sibling localharness_external is #!/bin/sh / exit 99. The key file is a synthetic JSON stub.

Not checked: authenticating against Vertex with a real Antigravity runtime and service-account key (neither is available here), and native Windows or macOS spawning. The change is platform-independent string filtering, and case aliases are covered by the existing alias handling.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at b183118

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Agent Platform now receives the configured Google credential-file path when no API key is saved. The change preserves other authentication modes, API-key precedence, and the existing default sign-in method.

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Walkthrough

The change preserves GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS for Agent Platform when no API key is configured. Tests cover both API key conditions. Provider documentation describes how to configure Application Default Credentials.

Changes: Antigravity ADC environment forwarding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Preserve ADC for Agent Platform apps/server/src/provider/antigravityAuthSupport.ts, apps/server/src/provider/antigravityAuthSupport.test.ts, docs/user/providers-antigravity.md	The environment filter retains GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS for Agent Platform when the API key is empty. Tests verify that the variable is removed when an API key is configured. The documentation describes setting the variable to an absolute service-account JSON key path.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#23036: This change forwards GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS when configured, but does not address the issue’s reproduction case where the variable is unset.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#24957: That PR detects missing ADC for Agent Platform without an API key. This change forwards the configured credentials variable to the runtime.

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to b1831

The ADC exception is correctly applied and documented, with no actionable merge-blocking risk identified.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: passing GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS to the Antigravity Agent Platform runtime.
Linked Issues check		Issue #30413 requires that GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS reach the Antigravity runtime when sign-in uses Agent Platform with no API key. The whole-PR diff of apps/server/src/provider/antigravityAuthS…
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR diff touches three files. The source change is the single credential-filter rule for #30413. The test change adds one test for that rule. The Antigravity user guide (docs/user/providers-a…
Description check		The pull request description is complete and follows the required template. It explains the problem and reproduction steps, describes the change and scope, links the issue, documents focused verificat…

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Explanation

Issue #30413 requires that GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS reach the Antigravity runtime when sign-in uses Agent Platform with no API key. The whole-PR diff of apps/server/src/provider/antigravityAuthSupport.ts adds usesApplicationDefaultCredentials = authMethod === "agent-platform" && !apiKey. The environment filter keeps the key (case-insensitive match via key.toUpperCase()) only when this flag is true. Other methods, and Agent Platform with an API key, still strip it. The new test 'keeps Application Default Credentials only for Agent Platform without an API key' asserts both paths. The docs change names the variable. The issue's alternative (disclose stripping in the UI) does not apply because the target configuration no longer strips the variable. The PR transcript reports the variable reaching the runtime from provider settings and from the server environment. This is author-reported and was not re-run here.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The whole-PR diff touches three files. The source change is the single credential-filter rule for #30413. The test change adds one test for that rule. The Antigravity user guide (docs/user/providers-antigravity.md) documents the same variable and the ADC exception. Other entries on removedEnvironmentKeys are unchanged. No unrelated behavior or unrelated files were found in the reviewed diffs. The docs file itself was not read as a diff; its content relies on the PR summary.

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The pull request description is complete and follows the required template. It explains the problem and reproduction steps, describes the change and scope, links the issue, documents focused verification and observed results, states unverified scenarios, and identifies the model and harness used.

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Follow-up Comments

Clarify the exception for inherited ADC credentials.

48-48: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clarify the exception for inherited ADC credentials.

For Agent Platform without an API key, an inherited GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS is now passed to the runtime. ADC checks that path before the local ADC file, so it can change the account used. Qualify this statement to describe that exception. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

As per coding guidelines, user docs should explain “anything unintuitive.”

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Review comment at @docs/user/providers-antigravity.md at line 48:
Update the credential-precedence statement in the Antigravity provider
documentation to clarify that, for Agent Platform without an API key, an
inherited GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS is passed to the runtime and ADC checks
it before the local ADC file, so it can change the account used; retain the
existing statement for other ambient credential variables.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	+16 B (+0.3%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	+16 B (+1.3%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.6 KiB	+41 B (+0.2%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	2	+1 (+100.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 7c22e24 · PR result: b183118 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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