Gemini CLI announcement

0:00 So, we're going to cover what makes it so special, how to set it up, and then finally, we're going to put it to the test on a few different code examples so that you can see firsthand, should you use this tool, should you not. So, without further ado, let's go ahead and dive in and cover this new amazing tool. All right, so let's break down the major news that Google just released when they were announcing Gemini CLI, which is their open-source AI agent for your terminal.

0:23 So, first things first, Gemini CLI is a command line interface tool, which means you're going to be using it strictly inside of your terminal. And if you have seen it announced so far, 99% of the time when people are showcasing this tool, they are showcasing the interactive version of using Gemini where you just run Gemini and then you get this amazing little terminal output right here. So, you can start chatting with your AI agents. But there is another option which is to actually use Gemini to make single requests where you say, "Hey, here is a prompt and I just want you to answer this question really fast." So you can actually use Gemini CLI in multiple ways, not just interactive mode.

1:10 You can also do singleshot request. So pretty cool. Now, one thing I thought was super interesting when I first saw this announcement was, huh, well, I already have cursor. Now there's this thing called Gemini CLI to actually allow me to like chat with an agent in my terminal. But does Google have their own like cursor? And I just found out today the answer is yes. Gemini has the code assist tool. So if you actually hop over here, you can see right here that Google has their direct competitor to cursor to where you can like chat just like you would in cursor.

1:33 It'll make changes in your IDE. You can add in files you want to look at. So Google has tools on tools on tools. If you want to see a video where I cover this, you know, Gemini code assist as a competitor to cursor, happy to do it. But back to the main article, there is AI in everywhere in your terminal, in your editor. So they are just in any point you as a developer are interacting with code, Gemini is trying to be there to help you out.

1:57 So let's dive into I think the most important piece of news when it comes to using this new tool, which is basically it is completely free to you as an individual developer. You're going to get access to Google's most advanced model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, completely for free. You're going to get up to 60 model requests a minute, which is insane. That's like, you know, per minute. So that means a request per second is what you're getting.

2:20 And you're going to get to a,000 requests per day completely for free. So if you kind of break down the math on this, Gemini 2.5 Pro has a 1 million token context window, which if you were to use this just normally out in the wild, that would charge you $3 for that one request right there. And you can make dozens of those requests. So, if you want to just ingest insane amounts of information and then get summaries, you could do that.

3:05 So, you're easily getting up to like if you ran 60 of those massive requests, you know, you're getting easily $180 worth of tokens from Gemini 2.5 Pro completely for free. So, they're uh you know, holding back no expense when allowing developers to try out this new tool. And I've been loving it so far. You're going to see this more in a minute, but I just want to let you guys know it is wild how much free tokens they're giving away for you to use their most advanced model.

3:28 So, so pumped. All right, so let's dive into some of the most important features of using Gemini CLI. And you're going to see these in action throughout the rest of the video. First things first, Gemini CLI allows you to actually run Google search, which is a trippy concept at first that from your browser, you can actually search using terminal, which is insane. The other thing that was really powerful is that you can use, you know, MCP servers directly in your terminal.

3:52 So, they have a nice little demo down here. Please make me a video of a cat that takes 30 seconds. So, they're using MCP tools to first create an image and then they're using VO to convert that image into an actual video and saving it all locally. So, that's only available by using MCP servers. So, this is really cool that you're able to do this once again directly from your terminal. Then there's a few other important pieces of information to know like you can update some customized prompts.

4:15 So you can make sure the Gemini CLI tool works exactly how you want it. That's going to be done using a something called a Gemini.mmarkdown file. Don't worry, we're going to cover that later. And then finally, you can actually automate task and integrate with existing workflows. You basically calling it through your scripts. So don't worry, you're going to see most of this later throughout the rest of the video. But I just want to quick before we dive into actually coding, I want to show you some of these coolest examples that they're advertising completely for free and let's go ahead and hop over to terminal fast so you can see these in action.

4:39 And don't worry, we're going to help you set up everything on your own in just a second. So, let's hop over to the terminal. Okay, so I just turned on Gemini CLI and I just want to show you three of the most common ways you're