Gemini CLI Agent
https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-open-source-ai-agent/
Google is complementing its AI programming tools lineup - there is a cloud agent Jules, there is a plugin Gemini Code Assist, there is Stitch for UI design, and there is a cloud IDE Firebase studio.
Claude Code is gaining more and more popularity, so its interface and approach are starting to be directly cloned, which is what OpenAI, Atlassian (it works, but keeps deleting everything), and now Google (it freezes for me on authorization - i.e., it doesn't work at all in Ukraine region) are trying to do.
The project is open source, works on Windows, the code is on GitHub - written in TS, not Python. And the main thing is - there are color themes ;)
Capabilities:
- Query and edit large codebases within and beyond the 1M context window.
- Generate new programs from PDFs or sketches.
- Automate tasks like pull request queries or complex rebase processing.
- Use MCP tools and servers.
Integrates with Code Assist billing (currently 1000 free requests to Gemini 2.5 Pro per day) or you can use your own API keys.
The video states that the tool is "raw" - it repeats messages, formats code poorly, can endlessly respond "I believe the task is done." Sometimes it just freezes. It can load the CPU almost to 100%. Even for a very simple task (add a button that opens a panel), the tool used over 1M input tokens!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwOfvE_3Mtk
He watched the code and saw that the request length, tool calls, and response metadata (time, tokens) are logged. The request text itself (unless explicitly included), file contents, API response contents, or personal information are not logged.
but
https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/tos-privacy.md
Google will not use your code, prompts, or responses for training models only if you use a paid Gemini API key, a Code Assist license, or the Vertex AI Gen API.
The "Usage Statistics" setting, if enabled, allows Google to collect both anonymous telemetry (e.g., commands executed) and your prompts and responses for model improvement. Disabling this setting disables the collection of prompts/responses for model improvement, but Google may still use data as described in their terms for free services.
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