Gemini CLI

An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.

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A well-maintained, widely adopted project. This assessment is derived from GitHub's own repository metrics on 2026-08-24, not from hands-on testing.

An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal. The project is written primarily in TypeScript, released under Apache-2.0, and has 106,664 stars and 14,480 forks on GitHub. 692 contributors have committed to it, and the most recent push was 2026-08-24. The latest tagged release is v0.56.0-nightly.20260824.g5411f113c (2026-08-24). Figures come from the GitHub API on 2026-08-24 and are refreshed daily; the score below weighs adoption, maintenance, release discipline, contributor breadth, licence clarity and issue hygiene.

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14.5kForks

577Watching

692Contributors

841Open issues

Licence: Apache-2.0
Language: TypeScript
Last push: 2026-08-24

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v0.56.0-nightly.20260824.g5411f113c 2026-08-24 Release v0.56.0-nightly.20260824.g5411f113c
v0.56.0-nightly.20260823.g5411f113c 2026-08-23 Release v0.56.0-nightly.20260823.g5411f113c
v0.56.0-nightly.20260822.g5411f113c 2026-08-22 Release v0.56.0-nightly.20260822.g5411f113c
v0.56.0-nightly.20260821.g30573d2e4 2026-08-21 Release v0.56.0-nightly.20260821.g30573d2e4
v0.56.0-nightly.20260820.ge90c63fa1 2026-08-20 Release v0.56.0-nightly.20260820.ge90c63fa1
v0.57.0-preview.0 2026-08-19 Release v0.57.0-preview.0

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