Gemini CLI

IDgemini06 / 1317 paths · env + project

Harness

Google Gemini CLI

gemini

Headless -p mode, settings.json per scope, audio through read_file.

Invoke: 2 of 6 · official
Models: no listing
MCP: json · standard
Agents file: ~/.gemini/GEMINI.md

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Access

GetgetHarness("gemini")

CLIharnesses paths gemini --json

Trygemini in the explorer

Gemini CLI is the one harness with a %PROGRAMDATA% path, for the managed settings on Windows, and one of two with a verified native audio route: its read_file tool accepts audio files. Video is not documented and is recorded as false. The request that asked for it: google-gemini/gemini-cli#27194.

Sessions are JSON under ~/.gemini/history/<project-id>/, where the id is a slug from projects.json rather than the path, so the note is there. Custom commands are TOML files. The global instructions file is ~/.gemini/GEMINI.md, and syncAgentsFiles links it like any other.

Capabilities and invocation

mcp: yes
vision: yes
audio: yes
video: no
tools: yes
streaming: yes

Binary gemini, evidence official. Non-interactive (headless) mode. Model selection appends --model {model}.

Callinvoke(prompt, options)2 of 6 modes

advisor{}rejected
advisor · json{ structured: true }rejected
read-only{ readOnly: true }rejected
read-only · json{ readOnly: true, structured: true }rejected
agent{ tools: true }-p {prompt}
agent · json{ tools: true, structured: true }-p {prompt} --output-format json

Paths

Templates as the registry stores them. ~, ${HOME}, ${TMPDIR} and %VAR% expand in resolve(); entries tagged with a platform are dropped on the others. Open in the explorer to see them expanded for a home directory of your choice.

PathsgetHarness("gemini")17 templates · 6 groups

config

~/.gemini/settings.jsonuserofficialall
.gemini/settings.jsonprojectofficialall
/etc/gemini-cli/settings.jsonsystemofficiallinux
/Library/Application Support/GeminiCli/settings.jsonsystemofficialdarwin
%PROGRAMDATA%/gemini-cli/settings.jsonsystemofficialwin32

sessions

~/.gemini/history/<project-id>/dataofficialall
Conversation history per project (project-id is a slug from projects.json).
~/.gemini/tmp/<project-id>/chats/dataofficialall
Active chat session data.

instructions