This is for Anyone Out There Trying to Turn Off AI Apps Auto Updates - Linear, Notion, Claude Desktop, Google Antigravity

Configuration Profile for Claude Desktop App

• Navigate to Computers > Configuration Profiles > New.

• Under Application & Custom Settings > External Applications, click Add.

• Select Custom Schema as Source

• Input com.anthropic.claudefordesktop as the Preference Domain.

• Click + Add schema

• Enter JSON Script

  {
      "title": "Claude Desktop Settings",
      "description": "Deployment configurations for Claude Desktop.",
      "properties": {
          "disableAutoUpdates": {
              "title": "Disable Automatic Updates",
              "description": "Prevents Claude Desktop from automatically checking for and downloading updates.",
              "type": "boolean",
              "default": false
          }
      }
  }

   

• Click Save

• Scroll down and select True under Disable Automatic Updates

Policy for Google Antigravity App

• Navigate to Settings > Scripts > New.

• Enter Display Name, Category, and Any Information You’d Like to Add.

• Click Script and Enter the Following Text:

  #!/bin/bash
  
  # Get the currently logged-in user
  current_user=$(scutil <<< "show State:/Users/ConsoleUser" | awk '/Name :/ { print $3 }')
  
  # Define paths
  TARGET_DIR="/Users/${current_user}/Library/Application Support/Antigravity/User"
  SETTINGS_FILE="${TARGET_DIR}/settings.json"
  
  # Ensure the directory exists
  if [ ! -d "$TARGET_DIR" ]; then
      mkdir -p "$TARGET_DIR"
      chown -R "$current_user" "/Users/${current_user}/Library/Application Support/Antigravity"
  fi
  
  # Create file if it doesn't exist, or inject the key safely using python/plutil
  if [ ! -f "$SETTINGS_FILE" ]; then
      echo '{"update.mode": "manual"}' > "$SETTINGS_FILE"
      chown "$current_user" "$SETTINGS_FILE"
  else
      # Modifies existing JSON safely
      python3 -c "
  import json
  try:
      with open('$SETTINGS_FILE', 'r') as f:
          data = json.load(f)
  except Exception:
      data = {}
  data['update.mode'] = 'manual'
  with open('$SETTINGS_FILE', 'w') as f:
      json.dump(data, f, indent=4)
  "
  fi
  
  echo "Antigravity update mode set to manual for $current_user."

• Click Save
• Navigate to Computers > Policy > New

• Under Options, select Scripts and click Configure.

• Add the Google Antigravity Script you created and saved earlier.