Overview
Gemini CLI is an open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal. It aims to provide lightweight access to Gemini, giving you the most direct path from your prompt to our model.
Key Features:
- Code Understanding & Generation
- Automation & Integration
- Advanced Capabilities
- GitHub Integration
- Authentication Options
Use Cases:
- Query and edit large codebases
- Automate operational tasks like querying pull requests
- Integrate Gemini CLI directly into GitHub workflows
- Run non-interactively in scripts for workflow automation
- Use MCP servers to connect new capabilities
Benefits:
- Free tier: 60 requests/min and 1,000 requests/day
- Access to Gemini 2.5 Pro with 1M token context window
- No API key management - just sign in with your Google account
- Automatic updates to latest models
- Open source: Apache 2.0 licensed
Capabilities
- Generates new applications from PDFs, images, or sketches using multimodal capabilities
- Queries and edits large codebases
- Debugs issues and troubleshoots with natural language
- Automates operational tasks like querying pull requests or handling complex rebases
- Connects new capabilities using MCP servers, including media generation with Imagen, Veo, or Lyria
- Runs non-interactively in scripts for workflow automation
- Grounds queries with built-in Google Search for real-time information
- Saves and resumes complex sessions with conversation checkpointing
- Uses custom context files (GEMINI.md) to tailor behavior for projects
- Automates code review with contextual feedback and suggestions in GitHub workflows
- Automates labeling and prioritization of GitHub issues based on content analysis
- Provides on-demand assistance in GitHub issues and pull requests for debugging, explanations, or task delegation
- Builds automated, scheduled, and on-demand workflows tailored to team needs
- Integrates with GitHub workflows using Gemini CLI GitHub Action
- Executes shell commands and file operations
- Fetches and searches the web
- Performs multi-file operations
- Extends functionality with custom tools using MCP Server Integration
- Creates custom commands with custom extensions
- Integrates with IDEs like VS Code for companion functionality
- Executes in safe environments with sandboxing and security
- Deploys in enterprise environments using Docker and system-wide configuration
- Tracks usage with telemetry and monitoring
- Develops custom tools using Tools API Development