The command-line interface (CLI) has been a cornerstone of developer workflows for decades. It offers power, precision, and control that graphical interfaces often lack. Yet, as software development grows more complex, even the CLI must evolve. Enter Gemini CLI, a tool developed by Google that brings artificial intelligence right into your terminal. With Gemini CLI, developers are empowered to build faster, debug smarter, and automate more, all from within a familiar interface.
What Is Gemini?
As of July 2025, Gemini is Google’s latest family of multimodal AI models, developed under the broader Google AI initiative. These models are designed to process and generate across various inputs including text, code, images, and documents. Gemini 1.5 Pro, the current flagship model, supports up to 1 million tokens of context, making it highly effective for deep code understanding, document summarization, and rich interactions involving multiple data types.