If you use Google’s Jules to write code in the background, you have until 11 November to finish what it is doing. After that the service turns read-only, and Google will switch it off completely on 31 December 2026.
Google announced the wind-down on 29 October. Jules was an experiment in coding agents that take a task, work on it alone and report back. Google says the lessons are being folded into its agent-first platform Antigravity and other products, and it has not said whether Jules projects or settings will transfer there automatically.
What you lose if you do nothing
Your code is safe: branches and pull requests that Jules pushed to GitHub stay on GitHub. Everything held only on Jules’s side goes when the service closes. That means environment variables, scheduled tasks, memories, setup scripts, connected repositories, account settings, and each session’s prompt, plan, activity log and patches.
Google’s changelog entry gives an export route. Install the Jules command-line tool from npm (@google/jules) and run jules login. Then paste Google’s export prompt into a coding agent, such as Claude Code, started from your home folder. The agent gathers the data into a ~/jules-export folder.
Link your GitHub account to Jules before you export, or the repository details will be missing from the result. The environment-variables file contains your real values, so keep the folder away from any repository. The export prompt also reads your saved Jules login from the macOS Keychain or the Linux secret store, so read the script before you let an agent run it.
