Gemini CLI

Within Gemini CLI, packages/cli is the frontend for users to send and receive prompts with the Gemini AI model and its associated tools. For a general overview of Gemini CLI, see the main documentation page.

Navigating this section

Authentication: A guide to setting up authentication with Google's AI services.
Commands: A reference for Gemini CLI commands (e.g., /help, /tools, /theme).
Configuration: A guide to tailoring Gemini CLI behavior using configuration files.
Token Caching: Optimize API costs through token caching.
Themes: A guide to customizing the CLI's appearance with different themes.
Tutorials: A tutorial showing how to use Gemini CLI to automate a development task.

Non-interactive mode

Gemini CLI can be run in a non-interactive mode, which is useful for scripting and automation. In this mode, you pipe input to the CLI, it executes the command, and then it exits.

The following example pipes a command to Gemini CLI from your terminal:

echo "What is fine tuning?" | gemini

Gemini CLI executes the command and prints the output to your terminal. Note that you can achieve the same behavior by using the --prompt or -p flag. For example:

gemini -p "What is fine tuning?"