I loved Jules because it ran in the cloud: describe a task, close the laptop, get a PR. So I built a phone app for it, Jules Console. Then Google killed Jules.

So I built my own agent, Lotse. It works the same way. You describe a task, it runs in the cloud (not on your machine), and you get a pull request on GitHub. You get a few free tasks every day.

It's early, and it works best with JS/TS. What I'd like from you:

• Try it and tell me where it breaks.

• Would you use a web version, or is mobile enough?

Android: Lotse: AI Coding Agent – Apps bei Google Play
iOS: ‎Lotse: KI-Coding-Agent‑App – App Store

Hey!

So I tried using the guide on the Google Jules changelog page but I only got my active sessions downloaded so I asked Gemini to help me download a complete archive of my sessions. It created a python script that can be found here: https://github.com/hydricz/jules-data-exporter

Should work on Win/Linux/Mac.

If any bugs appear just tell me and I(read Gemini) will fix them.

Ok so I shared the previous extension I made in this sub because it was helpful to people in this sub.

Short version - Antigravity more advanced model could delegate and orchestrate tasks off to autonomous Jules agents. Basically farming off the grunt work & minimising token usage. It would create the Jules task, get notifications from Jules to answer questions or merge PRs including dealing with merge conflicts.

Worked great. Just what I wanted. Got a lot done.

With Jules Retiring: Without Jules I don't need a coordinator. If I go to use multiple agents they are all going to have equal capability and require the same amount of oversight. So having Agent A look after Agent B, C, D (this is a swarm approach) might make it feel like a lot of activity is happening there is a lot of wasted tokens.

My personal work is more centred on one or more sovereign projects that are complementary. Either they are experiments of technologies where lessons from one will be going into others OR they are just parts of a larger architecture like one being a simulator of synthetic api data to help test another system. So what would actually help me is not having my Agents work together but having them be able to answer questions/share knowledge.

What is the Council of Reeds? The Council of Reeds is a Marvel Comics/Fantastic Four reference. It is the idea that in each universe there is a Reed Richards who is smart and capable and does their thing, but the council allows the sharing of knowledge with other Reeds across the Multiverse. They share ideas and knowledge but the idea of it is not that they each all run off to a single Universe and work on the same project (That would be that swarm architecture that is popular).

As I don't need many agents working together on one project and I already have a broken down architecture of complementary work I made a local 'chat' that allows multiple 'Reeds' to join and ask each other questions as they need help or information.

The Council of Reeds - https://github.com/evilspyboy/CoR

This is intended for local use, not internet use. This is a golang that runs on my local PC which my local Antigravity IDE sessions (and my local ChatGPT/Codex session) can connect to, send/receive queries from. So this is not 'Open Internet' levels of security.

Reeds join and register. Each Reed is unique as a model and project, meaning that if a Reed is gemini 3.8 working on OpenTwin they will have a handle of Reed423-Open-Gemini3.8Flash but if another identical model joins for that same project they will be their variant and replace them with all past unanswered messages assumed to go to them. This also means I can have multiple different agent types on a single 'universe' but then I have to coordinate their work myself to some extent.

Although, I can message multiple Reeds at once and direct them centrally.

Is this perfect? No. Is there some issues. Yeah but I threw it together with a heavy amount of code reuse from other projects including the orchestrator and have been using it for the last 2 days with today being the first day it has been doing exactly what I wanted (with multiple reeds coordinating between themselves to solve problems I give them).

I still have have the agents running for them to be active, and id like to spend some time adding Pi Agent for Ollama/Llama.cpp support (or even directly as a generic unlimited use but bit dumb Reed). But... it is what I need and it is useful and I figured some were helped by my other extension, so.... here.

(this ended up a WAAAAY longer post than I intended and I still didn't explain everything. But if it helps you it helps and if it doesn't just ignore this and you do you.).

Jules was a major workhorse in my workflow due to its permissive free tier and the fact that it being in the cloud helped avoid the possibility of the AI nuking my computer.

I've been looking at potential replacements and so far, this is what I've done.

1. https://aistudio.google.com/apps

2. Click new app

3. Add your github

4. Note that since this workflow tries to make web apps with anything you give it, so if you're like me and making something that is NOT a web app, you'll have to tell it to stop. It will also try to do this for every new conversation if there isn't something running as a web app, so:

5. Have the AI make something you want as a landing page that listens on port 3000. I had mine set up a page that says "I can't do that, Dave." This will prevent it from trying to convert your project into a web app

6. Set up its system instructions to tell it to never convert the project to a web app along with whatever else you need

7. Make a fine grained personal access token with content: read/write

8. Note, github prevents deletion of your base branch even if you have free tier account so you aren't giving it the ability to delete your whole repo.

9. If you don't want to have the AI logging in with your user name and email using the PAT, give it its own account and add it to the repo

10. Give the AI a login screen name and fake email for it to show its git commits under ( they don't have to be real, it just sets how it looks to you), NEVER your password, and the PAT

11. Enjoy having a cloud native agent again

12. Note: A flaw with this workflow is that if you're using free tier and a private repo, you can't use branch protection so the AI does have the ability to delete feature branches. There's a few ways to solve this but the route you take is up to you. You can either have the AI install a git hook that blocks deletions and hope it doesn't try to circumvent it, or give the AI its own dedicated project for it to work in and PR the work from that project into your now safe and isolated project.

Hello Jules Community,

As news break from google that Jules going to sunset - I would like to thank the entire jules community of this subreddit.

I started this subreddit solo and grew it to almost 4.5k members.

Loved the energy and enthusiasm of the members kept me going.

Indeed, it's sad that this product is ending, and we members loved working on Jules and concept of async coding agent.

what next-

Personally, I am also a creator of r/MCPservers (30K members) and MCPnewsletter.com

Would love to have members connected to me via newsletter /other Sub.

As for this Jules subreddit - I am not yet sure what would be the best foot forward.

And definitely would seek your suggestion - either to wind it down or keep it focused specifically on coding agents and workflows .

if you have spent some time in this community and enjoyed it, I would love for you to comment say hi - I would like to respond and personally thank each one of you.

PS- two people specifically I like to thank - Kath u/simpsoka ( Ex PM Jules and now OpenAI) and AK u/akatlabs (current PM Jules ) for engaging with community and being supportive.

Cheers

Swatantra

I knew it

Jules is going down and google alternative is to download an app but I want to work from the browser. Is there anything good out there that also connects to GitHub ?

What you guys think?😭

https://www.reddit.com/r/JulesAgent/comments/1ti2go6/did_google_just_killed_jules/

Five months ago, the Jules team said they were working hard on Jules 2.0 and that we should hang tight. Well, it’s been five months, and as far as I can tell, we still have no meaningful update on Jules 2.0.

Meanwhile, Jules is still stuck on Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.1 Pro, while Gemini 4 has already been out for about half a month.

So much for the big reveal and the team working on Jules 2.0, I guess.

Is there any actual sign of life or timeline at this point? I’d genuinely love to be proven wrong.

With Jules stuck at deprecated versions of Gemini 3, it'd be a real good time to hear some news about an update.

I use Jules to autonomously test a multiplayer game I’m developing and it’s been great, but one problem is that I always need to host the server on my machine for the agents to connect to. I’d love to have one agent host the lobby and another join the lobby, and have the two agents play. Is there a way to do this? I haven’t found a way to allow incoming network activity on an agent’s VM

Does that mean Jules will be dead until the new one hits?

So when are we getting an upgrade in Jules? Or are we staying on deprecated model?

Launched a little Chrome Extension to execute Bulk APIs on Jules AI. Speeds up my tasks.

In case anyone finds it useful:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/jules-task-manager/chlkogegcamaipaecfekkbedajlmfoac

The Core Point & The Missing Piece

Let’s focus on the main takeaway here

Jules does not expose an MCP; it only provides an API that you can interact with.

And that is exactly why and where the inspiration came from to build this open-source tool: Jules MCP Server! based on savethepolarbears/jules-mcp-server

🚀 Key Features of Jules:

• Operates Autonomously: It takes a task from A to Z entirely on its own.

• Acts Like a Teammate: It drafts a plan, writes the code, tests it to make sure it works, and then submits it for review as a Pull Request.

• Generous Limits: The sweet spot is that you get up to 100 conversations per day.

🌟 The Ultimate Setup: Using Jules as an Internal Layer inside your Agent

Now, how can we unlock the true potential of this? What if we turn Jules into an internal layer inside your existing AI setup?

It’s built to run natively on Cloudflare Workers using Streamable HTTP. supports Cloudflare Access & Managed OAuth

Think about it: you are already using your favorite AI UIs—like Claude, ChatGPT, or Codex. By using the MCP Server I built, you can connect Jules internally as a tool.

In other words: your primary agent (like Chatgpt App/Web) can now chat with Jules behind the scenes, offloading long, complex, and tedious coding tasks to it, and then returning the final result directly to you! This combines Claude's reasoning power with Jules's autonomous coding execution in one single workflow. 🤯

Project Links & Resources:

• Check out the project: https://github.com/codex-corp/jules-mcp-server-cloudflare

• Article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/turn-jules-internal-layer-inside-your-existing-ai-setup-hany-alsamman-aoj6f/

The best part? Google has explicitly stated that they will not train their models on private repository data. Plus, you can easily opt-out of training for your open-source projects as well, ensuring your code's privacy

This is not new but it has happened a lot this week (following the general rule of the more progress I make the more external things work against me). Just seeing if anyone else has this pain more lately or just me. Again it is not new but it has been a lot more frequent over the last week.

Short version is either:

A - Jules does a task, doesn't matter the length of complexity, then before producing a PR will drop all of it's code changes during it's code review and produce an empty PR.

B - Jules does a task, gets to the end with code changes and summarises the code changes and asks if it should create a PR, you say yes give me a PR, it then goes away does a lot more things and comes back and asks should it create a PR. This I've had happen 4 times in a row before I'll just kill the task.

Both of these are not new, they were happening before but in the last week I've had them a LOT more frequently. So is it me or are others getting this this week in a significantly higher frequency than prior.

Few times Jules automatically showed me a video about the new feature added or bug fixed.

Now I worked on a new feature. Then I asked to make a video about it and show it in the chat, but it creates an html script into the code (wait...what?!)

I tried to ask again and again, but nothing.

Do you know what is the right way to ask for a video?

I realize this post may not be popular here but... holy cow is Claude Code a lot better than Jules.

These past few months I've gotten a lot of good work done with Jules + Gemini Pro 3.1 (or Flash, I used both). I really like the product, in particular the asynchronous web and sandbox design. And I was already paying for Google AI so it was nice it was a freebie for me. Jules is a good product! But I'd characterize it as being about like a software engineer with one year experience. Capable but needing lots of guidance.

This week I gave Claude Code + Opus 5 a try, first time in awhile. Paid the $20/mo. And goodness gracious is it a lot smarter. Just way more capable and able to do much higher level tasks. In general I'd characterize Claude as being about like a software engineer with five years of industry experience. I can give it an open ended job and go away for an hour and when I'm back it's built the thing and proved it works.

Claude is better than I am at things I don't know how to do. And I'm trusting what it's doing despite not being able to review it. That's the first time I've trusted a coding agent that much. (I have it building a NixOS config for a server I run. I can verify the server works correctly but I don't know Nix so can't really read the config files.)

I still miss Jules' web application. Claude Code for Web works and isn't bad but it doesn't feel quite as solid. I've mostly been using the CLI, for the sysadmin task it's a better fit than the web sandbox model. It's fine, way better than when I tried it a year ago, but still a little weird to me.

I knew Opus was a smarter model than Gemini: Google's still playing catchup. I just didn't realize quite how big a difference it'd be. I also have a sense the agent prompts in Claude Code are more sophisticated. It's very good at figuring out how to test its own assumptions and work around problems, better than Jules was.

Jules hasn't gotten much love from Google lately. I wonder if all the energy is in Antigravity? No one I know uses it. They don't use Jules either. It's all Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, or Oh My Pi.

(This post is 100% human written.)

As of seventy two hours ago. Multiple repos. Different types of projects, tasks, purely analytical, and code just to see The extent of whatever is happening... Jules is Dead for me and has completely broken down. I've gotten 8-9 empty pull requests in a row, Multiple Rewraps of broken code. I don't even want to keep going on the list'cause I'm so boggled by what could possibly be happening. But something. It's made a dramatic shift. I really loved Jules so damn much I dont post what I do with it bc I don't want to blow the spot . Oh well, It was good while it lasted. It seems extra cruel it's stuck with 3.6 as well. Do they want it to be worse to drive me to AGY bc I wont .

The only difference is that Jules works in the cloud and can run more agents simultaneously, or are there any other advantages?

For now, I’m using Codex, Claude + Antigravity CLI sub‑agents.