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Google AI Studio just got a huge upgrade. Google just quietly dropped AI agents into AI Studio and it's free. With AI Studio's managed agents, you give it one instruction and it writes code, installs packages, edits files, and pulls info from the web, all inside its own private sandbox. Worried about it going off the rails? New hooks let you approve or block every single action before it happens. Cost control and automation features. Free tier availability. Managed agents are now available on free tier projects. Developers can experiment with agentic workflows using an API key from a project without active billing. Budget controls. Because managed agents execute multi-turn autonomous loops, complex tasks can consume significant token budgets. To prevent runaway tasks, you can pass max_total_tokens inside agent_config to cap total consumption (input + output + thinking). When the agent reaches the limit, execution safely pauses and the interaction returns status: "incomplete". The environment state is preserved, enabling you to continue where it stopped by passing previous_interaction_id with a fresh budget. Scheduled execution with triggers. Automate recurring agent tasks with scheduled triggers. A trigger binds an agent, environment, prompt, and cron schedule into a persistent resource that fires without manual intervention. Each run reuses the same sandbox, so files persist across executions. Environments API. The Environments API lets you list, inspect, and delete sandbox sessions from code. Recover environment IDs after a disconnect, or clean up sandboxes when your pipeline finishes instead of waiting for the 7-day TTL. While you sleep? Scheduled triggers let autopilot saving its progress every time.