Google has launched a brand new open-source AI agent that brings Gemini’s coding, content material era, and analysis capabilities straight into builders’ terminals. Gemini CLI gives a “basic improve to your command line expertise,” in keeping with Google, making it simpler for builders to put in writing and debug code utilizing pure language prompts.
“It gives light-weight entry to Gemini, supplying you with essentially the most direct path out of your immediate to our mannequin,” Google said in its announcement. “Whereas it excels at coding, we constructed Gemini CLI to take action rather more. It’s a flexible, native utility you need to use for a variety of duties, from content material era and downside fixing to deep analysis and process administration.”
Gemini CLI makes use of Google’s Gemini 2.5 Professional reasoning mannequin, which at the moment helps a 1 million token context window (the quantity of data that an AI mannequin can perceive). Google says the Gemini CLI agent is built-in with Gemini Code Help, consists of built-in Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP) and Google Search help, and permits builders to generate pictures and video utilizing its Veo and Imagen AI instruments.
Gemini CLI is on the market for builders to preview beginning in the present day, and it’s at the moment free to make use of by way of a free Gemini Code Help license that may be obtained by way of a private Google account. That gives Gemini CLI customers with a utilization restrict of 60 mannequin requests per minute and 1,000 requests per day, which Google says is the “largest allowance” supplied throughout the trade.
Google hasn’t talked about if something is on the market for customers who exceed these utilization limits, or if the AI agent will stay free-to-use when it turns into totally out there. That beneficiant allowance might give it an edge over different AI coding choices like Anthropic’s Claude Code and the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent, and even Microsoft’s related AI chatbot inside Home windows Terminal.