Google's new free AI agent brings Gemini right to your command line - here's how to try it

Google is bringing its proprietary AI more directly into coder workflows. 

On Wednesday, the company announced Gemini CLI, a free new agentic AI tool that integrates directly with a command line interface (CLI). Google positioned the agent as an immediate link between coders and Gemini 2.5 Pro, the latest iteration of Google's flagship AI model, saying it "provides lightweight access to Gemini, giving you the most direct path from your prompt to our model" in a blog post. 

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Developers can use Gemini CLI for writing and debugging code via natural language prompts, generating content, deep research, task management, and more. First introduced with an experimental version in March, Gemini 2.5 Pro is a reasoning model, meaning it's designed to execute more complex queries step-by-step, including coding ...