gemini-cli

Google's official terminal AI agent — brings Gemini to the command line

★ 107,192 stars, verified 2026-09-30Category: Coding AssistantsGitHub repository ↗

Google's official terminal AI agent, bringing Gemini to the command line.

AI pair programmers and coding assistants that live in your editor.

Key features

Open-source AI agent bringing Gemini into the terminal
Free tier: 60 requests/min, 1000 requests/day with personal Google account
Built-in tools: Google Search grounding, file ops, shell, web fetch
MCP support for custom integrations; query and edit large codebases

Good for

Developers who live in the command line
Teams automating PR reviews and issue triage via GitHub Action

Stack & tags

Node.jsai-agentterminalgeminicode-editingmcpfree-tier

Quick start

npx @google/gemini-cli

From the project README on GitHub.

Screenshots

Screenshots from the project’s GitHub README.

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