google-gemini/gemini-cli
An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #18 among AI repositories ranked this week, and #23 over the last 30 days; #153 of 163 repositories with measured growth this week (top 94%).
This week's +80 stars is below its 30-day pace of about +299 per week.
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 443 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #3 in the weekly ranking the week of Nov 16, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a terminal-based AI agent that integrates Gemini's powerful language model directly into the command line interface.
- Offers a lightweight, extensible, and open-source CLI with built-in tools and a large token context window for advanced AI interactions.
- Use for automating code reviews and pull request analysis within GitHub workflows using Gemini CLI GitHub Action.
- Use for querying and editing large codebases interactively or non-interactively to debug and generate code from natural language prompts.
- Use for integrating custom AI-powered tools and workflows via MCP servers to extend Gemini CLI capabilities in developer environments.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Gemini CLI is an open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal. It provides lightweight access to Gemini, giving you the most direct path from your prompt to our model.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+2,224 stars over 85 days across 18 snapshot days; best day +325 on Oct 26.
Forks
14.9K+486
Open issues
725-77
Compared with peers in AI
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D4Vinci/Scrapling | 101.1K | +6.3K | 75 | 6 days ago |
| thedotmack/claude-mem | 115.8K | +4.7K | 75 | today |
| heygen-com/hyperframes | 82.3K | +4.0K | 75 | today |
| harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo | 142.0K | +3.8K | 75 | 3 days ago |
| github/spec-kit | 149.2K | +2.6K | 75 | today |
| google-gemini/gemini-cli | 108.8K | +80 | 75 | today |
| Category median | 115.8K | +4.0K | 75 | — |
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