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title: Google Cloud ships a Developer Plugin for AI coding agents
description: "Google Cloud’s google-cloud-developer plugin bundles Cloud skills, docs MCP, and gcloud guardrails for Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity."
date: 2026-09-12T15:23:03.190Z
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# Google Cloud ships a Developer Plugin for AI coding agents

> Google Cloud’s google-cloud-developer plugin bundles Cloud skills, docs MCP, and gcloud guardrails for Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity.

Google Cloud on September 10, 2026 published `google-cloud-developer`, the flagship plugin in the Google Agent Skills repository for AI coding agents. The bundle packages Cloud fundamentals as one install: authentication, authorization, project management, gcloud CLI guardrails, and the Developer Knowledge MCP server so agents can ground answers in official documentation.

Content strategist Jonathan Lee, writing on the Google Cloud Blog, says individual skills are straightforward to install but unwieldy to manage, and that some skills are most useful alongside other skills or MCP servers. Plugins address that coupling by shipping related capabilities as cohesive, installable bundles—so an agent analyzing infrastructure can combine domain knowledge, workflow recommendations, and live environment access without juggling separate configs.

Google says the plugin complies with the open Agent Plugins specification, a vendor-neutral standard for packaging Agent Skills and Model Context Protocol servers into portable units with a unified manifest and directory structure. The same layout applies to other plugins published to the Google Agent Skills repository.

Installs documented in the post are:

**Antigravity CLI**

```
agy plugin install https://github.com/google/skills/plugins/cloud/google-cloud-developer
```

**Claude Code**

```
claude plugin marketplace add google/skills
claude plugin install google-cloud-developer@google-plugins
```

**Codex CLI**

```
codex plugin marketplace add google/skills
codex plugin add google-cloud-developer@google-plugins
```

In a project-onboarding walkthrough, Google says an agent with the plugin can check CLI availability and existing projects, review IAM risks such as accidental key leaks or git commits, then outline a workflow and offer to act before it modifies resources.

If you already use Google Cloud, run the install for Antigravity, Claude Code, or Codex, then follow the Antigravity codelab linked from the announcement. New Cloud users can start from the local-development setup docs in that same post, or browse the Google Agent Skills repository for other plugins.

## Sources

- [Introducing the Google Cloud Developer Plugin for AI Coding Agents](https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/introducing-the-google-cloud-developer-plugin-for-ai-coding-agents)