Gemini CLI
Open-source terminal AI connects to development tools, understands and edits code, generates, explains, and refactors using natural language, automates complex workflows, executes shell commands, grounds interactions with search, and supports extensibility via protocols and prompts.
Features
- Command line interface
- Support for scripting
- Tui
- AI-Powered
- Code generation
- Terminal-based
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support
- Context-aware help
- Shell integration
Gemini CLI News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about Gemini CLI
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Google unveils Jules for Gemini CLI, bringing autonomous coding tasks to the terminalGoogle has launched the Jules extension for Gemini CLI, adding an autonomous coding assistant that ...
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What is Gemini CLI?
A command-line AI workflow tool that connects to your tools, understands your code and accelerates your workflows.
Gemini CLI is Google’s open-source AI agent for the terminal, powered by the 
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro model. It enables natural language interactions directly in the command line, allowing developers to generate, explain, debug, and refactor code, execute shell commands, and perform content or research tasks without leaving their terminal.
The tool offers real-time grounding via Google Search, supports scripting and automation, and is fully extensible through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and custom prompt files. It’s free to use with generous limits via a Google account and integrates with Gemini Code Assist for consistent workflows across terminal and IDE environments.
With the Gemini CLI you can:
- Query and edit large codebases in and beyond Gemini's 1M token context window.
- Generate new apps from PDFs or sketches, using Gemini's multimodal capabilities.
- Automate operational tasks, like querying pull requests or handling complex rebases.
- Use tools and MCP servers to connect new capabilities, including media generation with Imagen, Veo or Lyria
- Ground your queries with the Google Search tool, built in to Gemini.
Gemini CLI information
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Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.Written in
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Very helpful to code with