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Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent

by meetpateltech on 6/25/25, 4:59 AM with 41 comments

• by Rutledge on 6/25/25, 6:31 AM

  Here's the image from Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20250625051706/https://blog.goog...

  The biggest diffs from Claude code (the current champion): 1. Generous free tier (60 RPM!) 2. Open Source Apache (Standard after OAI Codex did the same)

• by handfuloflight on 6/25/25, 5:18 AM

  404. That’s an error.

  The requested URL /technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli/ was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

• by tinylm on 6/25/25, 5:18 AM

  Although repo is 404. It is still more accessible than getting API Keys for Gemini

• by adefa on 6/25/25, 5:27 AM

  Here is the article as a PDF with some screen shots in it:

  https://gofile.io/d/4aahPJ

• by SafeDusk on 6/25/25, 5:58 AM

  Glad to see them working on this, as a Gemini user, I had to build https://github.com/aperoc/toolkami for myself before this.

• by msmithstubbs on 6/25/25, 5:16 AM

  Looks like they haven't flipped the GitHub repo (https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli) to public yet.

• by baalimago on 6/25/25, 5:56 AM

  Sounds like a context feeder to me. There's already tons of these, with mcp support, which are multi-vendor. Why lock yourself to a single vendor?

• by Freedom2 on 6/25/25, 5:21 AM

  Assuming this is something like Claude Code (guess we'll find out soon), I've had generally more success with Gemini 2.5 than Claude Opus for the various little refactorings and minor tasks I wanted to do. At large scale, complex changes I still don't expect a huge improvement over what we have already, but I'm eager to see what Google has come up with.

• by adefa on 6/25/25, 5:17 AM

  This looks like a leak or very early post, date reads the 25th.

• by aitchnyu on 6/25/25, 5:58 AM

  I use Aider with Gemini 2.5 flash since its cheaper than Claude by an order of magnitude. This looks like a potential replacement.

• by ChrisArchitect on 6/25/25, 2:40 PM

  Later discussion on the officially released blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376919

• by zombiwoof on 6/25/25, 5:53 AM

  The age of AI and can’t even get a vibe coder to push a website url correctly

• by stoicfungi on 6/25/25, 5:15 AM

  many links including the Github repo is broken.

• by Jotalea on 6/25/25, 8:05 PM

  It slightly annoys me that they released this tool *only after I made my own* (https://github.com/Jotalea/FRIDAY).

  But yes, this one is much better (mostly because it's made by a multimillionaire company) and I *will* use it and potentially abandon mine.

  This is already the second time this happens to me, the first time being a ChatGPT app for desktop, which they (OpenAI) released the day right after. I guess I'm just unlucky.

• by abhisek on 6/25/25, 6:15 AM

  Looks like Google broke their own record in killing stuff off.

• by mkagenius on 6/25/25, 5:21 AM

  Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250625051706/https://blog.goog...

  I just released this tool a few hours ago - https://github.com/BandarLabs/coderunner

  The key difference would be Gemini CLI running code directly on you mac vs in a Apple container (in my tool).

  They support MCP, so I might add Apple container support once the repo is public.