Gemini CLI

Google DeepMind · June 25, 2025 · Coding harness

Google released an Apache-2.0 licensed agent that runs in the terminal against a local codebase, with a free tier for personal Google accounts.

Why it matters

The first terminal agent from a frontier lab released as open source with a generous free tier, which turned the agent harness from a paid product into a commodity distribution channel for the underlying model.

This is LLM World's historical reading, not a claim by Google DeepMind. The facts above and the sources below are what it rests on.

Sources

Record status: verified · confidence 90/100

Google's own blog post, dated Jun 25, 2025 on the page. Company recorded as Google DeepMind to match the name this dataset already uses for Google entries, though the product shipped under Google Cloud/Labs branding. No archived capture recorded; one should be added.

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