Gemini CLI · Google
Google's fully open-source (Apache-2.0) terminal agent with a generous free tier, distinguished by built-in Google Search grounding, an extensions ecosystem bundling prompts/MCP servers/commands, GEMINI.md context files, checkpointing, and real-time voice mode.
Identity
| Homepage | https://geminicli.com/ |
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| Repository | https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli |
| License | open-source |
| Domain | coding |
| Form factor | cli · tui · ide-extension · ci-step |
Model support
| Model-agnostic | ○ no |
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| Native models | Gemini 3 Pro · Gemini 3 Flash · Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Local models | ? unknown |
| Pricing | freemium |
Extensibility
| MCP client | ✓ yes |
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| Agent Skills support | ? unknown |
| Plugins / hooks | ✓ yes |
Execution & safety
| Sandboxing | optional |
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| Autonomy spectrum | supervised → semi-autonomous → autonomous-local |
| Subagents | ✓ yes |
| Parallel sessions | ? unknown |
| Context management | compaction · persistent-memory |
Integration & evidence
| Headless / API | ✓ yes |
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| GitHub integration | ✓ yes |
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✓ profile last verified 2026-07-08 · benchmark figures are vendor-reported unless a source states otherwise