diff --git a/server/pkg/agent/antigravity.go b/server/pkg/agent/antigravity.go
index 99fddea01..55182bbc6 100644
--- a/server/pkg/agent/antigravity.go
+++ b/server/pkg/agent/antigravity.go
@@ -38,6 +38,23 @@ func (b *antigravityBackend) Execute(ctx context.Context, prompt string, opts Ex
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("agy executable not found at %q: %w", execPath, err)
 	}
 
+	// Guard against agy's silent no-op on an unrecognised --model: it exits 0
+	// with empty output, which would otherwise surface as a "completed" but
+	// empty task. opts.Model is the single funnel for both agent.model and the
+	// daemon-wide MULTICA_ANTIGRAVITY_MODEL default (resolved in daemon.go), so
+	// validating it here covers every source — UI free-text, API, a persisted
+	// value, and the env default alike. Reject a non-empty model the installed
+	// CLI definitively does not advertise, with an actionable error. Validation
+	// is fail-OPEN: if the `agy models` catalog can't be discovered we let agy
+	// resolve the value itself rather than blocking the run on a discovery
+	// hiccup (see antigravityModelError).
+	if opts.Model != "" {
+		catalog, _ := ListModels(ctx, "antigravity", execPath)
+		if err := antigravityModelError(opts.Model, catalog); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+
 	timeout := opts.Timeout
 	runCtx, cancel := runContext(ctx, timeout)
 
@@ -215,10 +232,11 @@ var antigravityBlockedArgs = map[string]blockedArgMode{
 // shell quoting. agy still exposes no --system-prompt; runtime instructions
 // are delivered via AGENTS.md in the task workdir.
 //
-// Caveat: agy silently no-ops on a model string it doesn't recognise (empty
-// output, exit 0), so callers should only hand over values discovered via
-// `agy models`. When opts.Model is empty we omit the flag and agy resolves
-// its own default.
+// agy silently no-ops on a model string it doesn't recognise (empty output,
+// exit 0), so Execute validates opts.Model against the `agy models` catalog
+// and rejects an unrecognised value up front (see antigravityModelError) —
+// by the time we build argv the value is either empty or known-good. When
+// opts.Model is empty we omit the flag and agy resolves its own default.
 func buildAntigravityArgs(prompt, logPath string, timeout time.Duration, opts ExecOptions, logger *slog.Logger) []string {
 	args := []string{
 		"-p", prompt,
@@ -247,6 +265,31 @@ func buildAntigravityArgs(prompt, logPath string, timeout time.Duration, opts Ex
 	return args
 }
 
+// antigravityModelError returns an actionable error when `model` is non-empty
+// and definitively absent from `available` (the `agy models` catalog); it
+// returns nil otherwise. An empty `available` means discovery couldn't produce
+// a catalog (agy missing, transient failure) — we fail OPEN there and let agy
+// resolve the value, so a discovery hiccup never blocks a run. The match is
+// exact because agy's --model wants the precise display string; a near-miss
+// (extra space, dropped suffix) is correctly rejected since agy would silently
+// no-op on it anyway.
+func antigravityModelError(model string, available []Model) error {
+	if model == "" || len(available) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	ids := make([]string, 0, len(available))
+	for _, m := range available {
+		if m.ID == model {
+			return nil
+		}
+		ids = append(ids, m.ID)
+	}
+	return fmt.Errorf(
+		"antigravity model %q is not available from `agy models`; pick one of: %s",
+		model, strings.Join(ids, ", "),
+	)
+}
+
 // antigravityFormatTimeout renders a Go duration in the `<n>m<n>s` shape the
 // agy CLI accepts (e.g. 20m0s). Sub-second timeouts round up to 1s so the CLI
 // doesn't reject the flag.
diff --git a/server/pkg/agent/antigravity_test.go b/server/pkg/agent/antigravity_test.go
index 742556991..c8b60d6dd 100644
--- a/server/pkg/agent/antigravity_test.go
+++ b/server/pkg/agent/antigravity_test.go
@@ -214,3 +214,58 @@ func TestReadAntigravityConversationIDMissingFile(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("expected empty string for empty path, got %q", got)
 	}
 }
+
+// TestAntigravityModelError is the regression guard for the silent-no-op fix:
+// agy exits 0 with empty output on an unrecognised --model, so Execute must
+// reject a non-empty model that isn't in the `agy models` catalog instead of
+// letting it run to a fake "completed + empty" success. This covers the same
+// validation regardless of whether opts.Model originated from agent.model, a
+// persisted/API value, or the daemon-wide MULTICA_ANTIGRAVITY_MODEL default —
+// they all collapse to opts.Model before Execute runs this check.
+func TestAntigravityModelError(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	catalog := []Model{
+		{ID: "Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium)", Label: "Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium)", Provider: "antigravity"},
+		{ID: "Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking)", Label: "Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking)", Provider: "antigravity"},
+	}
+
+	// Exact catalog hit → accepted.
+	if err := antigravityModelError("Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking)", catalog); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("valid model rejected: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Empty model → accepted (flag omitted, agy resolves its own default).
+	if err := antigravityModelError("", catalog); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("empty model should not error: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Empty / nil catalog → fail open (discovery couldn't produce a list, so we
+	// can't prove the value is bad — let agy decide rather than block the run).
+	if err := antigravityModelError("anything at all", nil); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("empty catalog should fail open, got: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Unknown model with a known catalog → actionable error that names the
+	// rejected value and points at `agy models`. THIS is the case that stops
+	// the silent empty-success.
+	err := antigravityModelError("Totally Made Up Model", catalog)
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("unknown model should be rejected, not silently accepted")
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "Totally Made Up Model") {
+		t.Errorf("error should name the rejected model: %v", err)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "agy models") {
+		t.Errorf("error should point the user at `agy models`: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Near-miss (trailing space / dropped suffix) → still rejected, because agy
+	// needs the exact display string and would no-op on anything else.
+	if err := antigravityModelError("Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking) ", catalog); err == nil {
+		t.Error("near-miss model (trailing space) should be rejected")
+	}
+	if err := antigravityModelError("Claude Opus 4.6", catalog); err == nil {
+		t.Error("near-miss model (dropped suffix) should be rejected")
+	}
+}