gemini-cli
An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.
Brings Gemini's capabilities directly into the terminal as an open-source agent with massive community adoption (101K stars). Gives developers a powerful AI agent in their existing command-line workflows.
Developers who prefer terminal-based workflows and want a well-supported, open-source AI agent available from the command line.
https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli
By google-gemini
How to Get It
claude plugins install google-gemini/gemini-cli
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Trust Signals Reviewed
Community Pulse Active
Discussed on Hacker News, Reddit
- Gemini CLI — Hacker News · 1428 pts
- My older coworkers have accepted AI as the source of truth — Reddit · 1247 pts
- Google introduces Gemini CLI, a light open-source AI agent that brings Gemini di — Reddit · 709 pts
51 mentions across 2 sources
Reviewer notes
Reviewed review. These are observations, not a security certification.
Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 101,442 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 34d ago; license Apache-2.0.
2026-05-10: Solid pick for developers who live in the terminal and want Gemini accessible without leaving their shell—useful for ad-hoc code generation, file summarization, and scripted AI workflows via pipe or subprocess. The 101K stars signal genuine adoption, but production use remains thin (one mention), so treat it as a sharp utility rather than a proven team workflow. Pairs well with shell scripts and CI tooling; if you need deep multi-file context or IDE-grade refactoring, Claude Code or Cursor are further along in that use case.
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Evaluation
Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 101,442 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 34d ago; license Apache-2.0.