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An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.

109 mentions on Hacker News by 92 people: 24 stories, 85 comments · first 2025-06-25 · latest 2026-06-02

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  1. Gemini has its own Claude Code like tool you can use. https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli
    comment by Karrot_Kream · 2025-07-21 · in Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
  2. Theoretically, practically it is riddled with rate limiting issues https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/1502
    comment by upcoming-sesame · 2025-07-12 · in OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
  3. …want to waste time with the program if you can't even get basic authorization working correctly. 0: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/c...
    comment by dan_voronov · 2025-06-27 · in Gemini CLI
  4. Been working on this, and should now be resolved https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/discussions/2064
    comment by ptone · 2025-06-27 · in Gemini CLI
  5. Try it out with 0.1.5 https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/discussions/2064
    comment by ptone · 2025-06-27 · in Gemini CLI
  6. This should be resolved: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/discussions/2064
    comment by ptone · 2025-06-27 · in Gemini CLI
  7. Things should be better now: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/discussions/2064
    comment by ptone · 2025-06-27 · in Gemini CLI
  8. …we should standardize on AGENTS.md but Gemini CLI does at least let you configure the filename: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/3a369ddec3b... Claude Code seems to require the CLAUDE.md filename.…
    comment by kaycebasques · 2025-06-26 · in Gemini CLI
  9. Would Gemini non-interactive mode be a stop gap if they don't have sub-agent equivalent yet? https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/c...
    comment by indigodaddy · 2025-06-26 · in Gemini CLI
  10. What about ... https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/swarm-mode-...
    comment by jonbaer · 2025-06-26 · in Gemini CLI
  11. …to sign in to a Workspace account in a specific org (or use a specific project, I guess). [1]: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/c...
    comment by bloppe · 2025-06-26 · in Gemini CLI
  12. …on section 3A here where they describe how to authenticate with the API via your Workspace account https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/c... . That document does explicitly mention "Gemini Code Assist for Workspace"…
    comment by safety1st · 2025-06-26 · in Gemini CLI
  13. seems to be straight "yes" with no opt-out. https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/t...
    comment by predkambrij · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  14. Hope this is helpful, just merged: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/t...
    comment by fhinkel · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  15. Yes, there were meetings and lawyers. We just merged the update. Hopefully it's much clearer now: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/t...
    comment by fhinkel · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  16. It applies to Gemini CLI too. We've tried to clear up our docs, apologies for the confusion. https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/t...
    comment by fhinkel · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  17. We have! Sorry our docs were confusing! We tried to clear things up https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/t...
    comment by fhinkel · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  18. Sorry our docs were confusing! We tried to clear things up: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/t...
    comment by fhinkel · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  19. …each account type, including an FAQ that covers the questions from this thread. Here’s the link: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/t... Thanks again for pushing for clarity on this!
    comment by fhinkel · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  20. someone has already sent out a PR for this! https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/1448
    comment by newnimzo · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  21. Nice to have https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/discussions/1572
    comment by matiasmolinas · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  22. Because Gemini CLI is OSS, you can also find the system prompt at: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/4b5ca6bc777...
    comment by steren · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  23. …is just my plain language reading of the docs. When you look at the github repo for the gemini CLI: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/tree/main At the bottom it specifies that the terms of service are dependent on the underlying…
    comment by mattzito · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  24. That's because it's a bit of a nesting doll situation. As you can see here: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/tree/main If you scroll to the bottom, it says that the terms of service are governed based on the mechanism by which…
    comment by mattzito · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  25. Where did you find the terms and conditions for Gemini CLI? In https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/README... , I find only links to the T&Cs for the Gemini API, Gemini Code Assist (a different product?), and Vertex AI.
    comment by mil22 · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  26. …there's a ~/.gemini/settings.json that contains just the auth type. No mention of accessibility in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/0915bf7d677... either
    comment by jsnell · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  27. …- *File Content:* We do not log the content of any files that are read or written by the CLI. https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/0915bf7d677...
    comment by mil22 · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  28. odd, haven't seen that one - you might file an issue https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues I don't think that's capacity, you should see error codes.
    comment by cperry · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  29. I also work on the product :-) You can also extend with the Extensions feature - https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/e...
    comment by bdmorgan · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  30. It seems that you need to set up an env variable called GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/1434 ... and other stuff.
    comment by raincole · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  31. Have you checked the https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/c... ? It has a section for workspace accounts.
    comment by GlebOt · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  32. https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/c...
    comment by cperry · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  33. I also work on the product. You can extend the tools with MCP. https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/t...
    comment by _ryanjsalva · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  34. I actually had this exact same question when I read the docs, made an issue about it: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/1427
    comment by gavinray · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI
  35. Looks like they haven't flipped the GitHub repo ( https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli ) to public yet.
    comment by msmithstubbs · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent