Gemini CLI

Google's first-party terminal agent for Gemini. The **harness** is the plugin/MCP tool-call loop; the terminal is the shell—Google's parallel to Claude Code / Codex, not just an API.

Stars

109k

Adoption surface

slightly complex

Autonomy

bounded

Recovery

resumable

License

✅ open-source

Category

Coding agent products (IDEs, CLIs, full suites)

Repository ↗ Example: MCP server setup ↗

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