Google’s Gemini CLI Puts AI in the Terminal, Part of a Bigger Push to Embed Gemini Everywhere

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Google has introduced Gemini CLI, a free, open-source AI tool designed to work directly in the developer’s terminal. The company says it wants to bring the power of Gemini into the hands of coders in the most native way possible: through the command line.

“We’re introducing Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal,” Google’s Taylor Mullen and Ryan J. Salva wrote in a blog post.

The Gemini CLI is powered by the Gemini 2.5 Pro model, which features an impressive 1 million-token context window, allowing for the easy analysis of large codebases or documents. It’s all built under the Apache 2.0 license, meaning ...