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How I Built an 8-Skill Research Engineering Plugin, Studio MCP Server & Vector Comic Studio for Google Antigravity

Reading, auditing, and explaining dense machine learning or engineering papers shouldn't stop at a wall of plain-text chat bullets—or brittle LaTeX scripts that break on half of developer workstations.

Over the past week, I architected and open-sourced My-antigravity-research-skills (agy-research-kit), a full-stack Google Antigravity Plugin built with Google Antigravity for rigorous scientific paper auditing, interactive simulation, and visual storytelling.

🔗 GitHub Repository: https://github.com/RobinaMirbahar/My-antigravity-research-skills

🎮 Live HTML5 Interactive Paper Simulator: https://robinamirbahar.github.io/My-antigravity-research-skills/


Why Native Google Antigravity Primitives Change Research Workflows

Google Antigravity gives developers five composable customization layers that fit together cleanly:

  1. Progressive-Disclosure Skills (SKILL.md): Each skill sits idle at ~50 tokens (YAML frontmatter only) until the agent actually needs it—preventing context bloat across 8+ specialized workflows.
  2. Stdio MCP Servers (mcp_config.json): Zero-hallucination deterministic tools for statistical hypothesis tests and live Crossref DOI lookups.
  3. Lifecycle Safety Hooks (hooks.json): Pre/post tool-call guards that stop common Python research bugs before they happen.
  4. Always-On Rules (rules/AGENTS.md): Strict provenance rules ensuring zero invented metrics and mandatory visual montage QA.
  5. Interactive HTML5 Studios: Self-contained 60-FPS Canvas/SVG parameter explorers that let readers drag sliders over a paper's equations in real time.

Google Antigravity Research Engineering Kit Architecture


Inside the 8 agy-* Research Skills

Every script in agy-research-kit uses PEP 723 inline # /// script metadata executed via uv run, plus headless Chromium/Edge and pymupdf + imageio[ffmpeg]—meaning zero system TeX or global FFmpeg installation headaches across Windows, macOS, and Linux:

Skill What It Builds Output Artifact
agy-interactive-paper-studio Turns closed-form paper equations into a zero-backend 60-FPS HTML5/Canvas simulator Standalone index.html
agy-ablation-stat-auditor Recomputes exact Wilson 95% score CIs, Fisher's Exact, McNemar paired p-values, & leaderboard noise floors Audit Markdown/LaTeX + JSON
agy-citation-doi-verifier Verifies bibliographies against live Crossref & OpenAlex REST APIs and upgrades preprints to published venues Traffic-Light DOI Audit
agy-figure-forensics Adds numbered vector callouts, regime shading, and Engineering Takeaway cards onto 300-DPI paper plots A4 Visual Anatomy PDF
agy-math-sandbox Color-codes equations into operator blocks and runs deterministic NumPy/SciPy Monte Carlo verification A4 Math Verification PDF
agy-trajectory-cinematics Renders 1920x1080 H.264 .mp4 animations pairing a live system state monitor with 2x2 real-time telemetry curves 1080p .mp4 + Narration .md
agy-graphic-story Renders pure-code A4 Vector SVG Technical Graphic Novels with custom characters, blackboards, and verbatim scoreboards A4 Vector Comic PDF
agy-frontier-gap-radar Orchestrates OpenAlex + arXiv retrieval into an N x 7 capability heatmap and novelty-checked research blueprints A4 Frontier Gap Radar PDF

Live Sample Showcase: Dissecting Quantized Agent Context Collapse (Gemma 4 LoopBreaker)

To test all 8 skills end-to-end on a real systems research problem, the repository includes a complete showcase in examples/gemma4-loop-breaker/ analyzing how 4-bit weight quantization (W4A16) interacts with growing multi-turn agent KV caches (1 - 1 / (1 + C * e^{-delta})).

1. Pure-Code Vector SVG Technical Graphic Story (agy-graphic-story)

Generated 100% programmatically from Python + SVG/HTML (story_svg_engine.py) with verbatim benchmark tables and automatic PyMuPDF 2-up visual QA:

Sample Vector Comic Spread — Pages 1 & 2

Sample Vector Comic Spread — Pages 3 & 4

📄 Download Full Sample PDFs Directly from the Repo:

2. 1080p Animated Telemetry Explainer (agy-trajectory-cinematics)

Using imageio[ffmpeg] inside an isolated uv run micro-environment, the plugin renders a crisp 1920x1080 H.264 .mp4 sweep synchronizing an agent state monitor with four live quantitative plots:

Animated 1080p TelemetrySweep Preview

🎬 Watch / Stream Full 1080p .mp4: https://robinamirbahar.github.io/My-antigravity-research-skills/Gemma4_LoopBreaker_Explainer_v1.mp4


Built-In Stdio MCP Server & Lifecycle Safety Hook

When you install plugins/agy-research-kit, Antigravity automatically registers two guardrails that keep AI research honest:

  1. research_audit_mcp.py (Stdio MCP Server): Exposes verify_wilson_ci, verify_fisher_exact, leaderboard_noise_floor, and verify_doi_metadata over JSON-RPC so the agent never guesses confidence intervals or p-values mentally.
  2. stdlib_shadow_guard.py (PostToolUse Hook): Catches a classic Python footgun—if a script tries to write numbers.py, statistics.py, or math.py in your working directory (which silently crashes numpy and scipy), the hook flags it immediately.

Install in 30 Seconds

Windows (PowerShell):

git clone https://github.com/RobinaMirbahar/My-antigravity-research-skills.git
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path "$HOME\.gemini\config\plugins" | Out-Null
Copy-Item -Recurse -Force My-antigravity-research-skills\plugins\agy-research-kit "$HOME\.gemini\config\plugins\"
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macOS / Linux:

git clone https://github.com/RobinaMirbahar/My-antigravity-research-skills.git
mkdir -p ~/.gemini/config/plugins
cp -r My-antigravity-research-skills/plugins/agy-research-kit ~/.gemini/config/plugins/
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Run the self-contained verification suite anytime with:

uv run tests/test_skills_structure.py
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If you try agy-research-kit on your own papers or Kaggle competition writeups, drop a star on RobinaMirbahar/My-antigravity-research-skills and let me know what research skill you'd love to see next!

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