Google's Managed Agents API promises one-call deployment at the cost of execution layer control

At Google I/O, the company unveiled Managed Agents in its Gemini API — a service that promises to collapse weeks of agent deployment work into a single API call. It's also a sign that Google believes its ecosystem, including the newly launched Antigravity CLI, is ready to own the execution layer end-to-end. Before a single agent is written, teams are already spending days on the unglamorous work: