Agy Bridge

agy-bridge

An MCP bridge that lets Claude Code delegate heavy tasks to the Antigravity CLI (`agy`) — saving Claude's context window and tokens for what matters.

Claude sends a task → the bridge routes it to the best available model via agy → only the answer comes back. Large files, deep git searches, and web lookups never touch Claude's context.

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User → Claude Code → agy-bridge (MCP) → agy CLI → Gemini / Claude / GPT-OSS

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Why this over claude-to-agy?

Requirements

• Node.js 18+
• Antigravity CLI (agy) installed and authenticated
• Claude Code

Install

# 1. Register the MCP server (user scope = all projects).

add-json bakes in a generous client-side timeout so long analyze_files /

delegate calls don't trip Claude Code's tool-call deadline (see Timeouts).

claude mcp add-json -s user agy-bridge \ '{"command":"npx","args":["-y","agy-bridge"],"timeout":600000}'

2. Add delegation rules to your project (or ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md for global)

curl -o CLAUDE.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sshahzaiib/agy-bridge/main/CLAUDE.md

The "timeout": 600000 (10 min, milliseconds) is the client-side tool-call

deadline — without it, a cold-start analyze_files (~40–50s) or a long

delegate can hit Claude Code's default and return `timed out waiting for

response` while the agy run is still going. If your client doesn't honor a

per-server timeout, set the global env var MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT=600000 instead.

Details and the agy-side budgets are in Timeouts and cancellation.

Tools

All tools accept optional cwd (project root) and model (an id or display name from agy models; validated, with available models listed on mismatch).

Every response ends with a footer:

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[agy-bridge] model: Gemini Flash (High) | session: 1f0c…-d4 (use follow_up to continue)

Model routing

On first use the bridge runs agy models (cached for the process lifetime) and picks the first available model in the tool's preference chain. Chain entries name a family and tier rather than a version (Gemini * Flash (High)), and * resolves to the newest version agy currently lists, so a Gemini release never silently breaks routing. Chains are Gemini-first; Claude Opus and GPT-OSS are appended as a last resort and only used when no Gemini model is listed. If none is available it falls back to AGY_DEFAULT_MODEL, and finally to agy's own default. agy silently ignores unknown --model values, so the bridge validates names up front instead of letting requests land on the wrong model.

Quota-aware failover

agy never surfaces quota exhaustion in print mode — it silently retries the 429 until its print-timeout, then exits 0 with empty output, which used to look like an indefinite hang. The bridge now watches each run's log file (via --log-file) and on RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED (code 429):

1. kills the agy process group immediately (no waiting out the timeout),
2. parses the reset time ("Resets in 4h24m") into an in-process cooldown registry,
3. retries the same prompt on the next model in the tool's chain,
4. skips cooled-down models on all subsequent calls until their quota resets.

Failovers are annotated in the response footer (failover: : quota exhausted (resets in 4h24m)). Only when every candidate is exhausted does the call fail — in seconds, with reset times listed — instead of hanging.

Timeouts and cancellation

Each tool has its own default timeout sized to its job: web_lookup 120s, deep_search 180s, analyze_files / adversarial_review / follow_up 300s, delegate 600s. Setting AGY_TIMEOUT explicitly overrides all of them at once. To change a single tool, set AGY_TIMEOUT_ instead (e.g. AGY_TIMEOUT_DEEP_SEARCH=300); a per-tool override takes precedence over the global AGY_TIMEOUT and the tool's default. The full set of per-tool variables is AGY_TIMEOUT_ANALYZE_FILES, AGY_TIMEOUT_DEEP_SEARCH, AGY_TIMEOUT_WEB_LOOKUP, AGY_TIMEOUT_ADVERSARIAL_REVIEW, AGY_TIMEOUT_FOLLOW_UP, and AGY_TIMEOUT_DELEGATE. The kill path escalates SIGTERM → SIGKILL across the whole process group, and the deadline fires even if agy's helper processes hold the output pipes open. Cancelling the tool call from the MCP client (e.g. pressing Esc in Claude Code) also kills the agy run instead of orphaning it.

Two timeout layers — align them. The timeouts above are the _agy-side_ budget. Your MCP client (Claude Code) has its own, separate _tool-call_ timeout, and if it is shorter than the agy budget the client gives up first — you'll see Error: timed out waiting for response (note: agy-bridge's own timeout reads agy timed out after Ns instead). The work is not lost: the agy session persists, so follow_up with the returned session_id retrieves the result. But the real fix is to make the client wait at least as long as agy: the Install command already sets a per-server timeout of 600000ms (scoped to the agy-bridge entry only). If you registered the server without it, re-run the add-json command from Install, or set the global env var MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT=600000. Rule of thumb: client `timeout` ≥ agy budget.

Expected latency. Most of the perceived "slowness" is cold start: the first call in a session spawns the agy CLI and warms the model. A simple analyze_files over 3 files measures around 40–50s cold (≈46s observed), dropping on subsequent same-session calls. A first call that also hits a quota 429 takes longer while the bridge fails over. So a client timeout below ~60s will intermittently trip on cold starts even for "simple" questions — size it generously.

Configuration

All optional, via environment variables:

Failure behavior

The bridge always fails loudly: agy errors surface as MCP tool errors with agy's actual stderr, and degraded model routing is annotated in the response footer. By default the calling agent (Claude) will typically do the work itself after a failure — visible in the transcript, but easy to stop noticing in a long session. Set AGY_ON_FAILURE=strict to append an explicit "do NOT perform this work yourself — report the fai