Google employees have a new AI tool called ‘Agent Smith’. It’s so popular that access got restricted.

It doesn’t have a trench coat, it doesn’t need a nap pod, and it doesn’t have stock options (yet) — but Agent Smith has entered the Googleplex.

Google employees are using a new internal AI tool called “Agent Smith” that can automate tasks such as coding, according to three people familiar with it.

Smith has become so popular that access had to be restricted to handle the influx of employees using it, two people said.

Smith — likely a reference to the antagonist from The Matrix — builds on Google’s existing agentic coding platform, Antigravity, and can interact with various internal tools. It works asynchronously — or on its own in the background without an active laptop — and employees can check in with it and give it instructions using their phones. Smith launched earlier this year, one of the people said.

For some software engineers, it’s already proving to be a big help, one person said, at a time when the company is aggressively…