Official Re-Integration of Gemini CLI #7353
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Overview
Currently, RooCode does not provide any official integration with Gemini CLI.
Based on past history, reusing OAuth client credentials or relying on non-standard integrations should be avoided. However, Gemini CLI itself has been steadily developed as an official developer tool, and it has become a strong option to greatly enhance the local development experience.
If RooCode provides proper library-based integration, it will meet the needs of users who want to use Gemini CLI in a secure and sustainable way.
Proposed solution
Library-based integration: Import @google/gemini-cli-core as a dependency and implement it as a RooCode provider (e.g., GeminiCliCoreProvider).
The idea is to directly call the Gemini CLI core functions via the Node.js library.
According to the following issue, using Gemini CLI as a library does not seem to be a problem:
cline/cline#4495
Alternatives considered
Launch Gemini CLI as an external process and interact with its functions through inter-process communication.
Additional context (optional)
gemini-cli-mcp-openai-bridge
https://github.com/Intelligent-Internet/gemini-cli-mcp-openai-bridge
This OSS provides Gemini CLI functionality through an OpenAI-compatible API.
Google publishes Gemini functionality as the npm package gemini-cli-core, and the bridge project uses it to build a compliant API.
https://github.com/Intelligent-Internet/gemini-cli-mcp-openai-bridge/blob/main/bridge-server/src/bridge/bridge.ts#L5-L13
mcp-gemini-cli
https://github.com/choplin/mcp-gemini-cli/tree/eeff2ab1fc409f796c6ae8f3665077bc5c0bcf73
This OSS provides Gemini CLI functionality via MCP.
To achieve this, it simply starts Gemini CLI as a process and integrates with it.
https://github.com/choplin/mcp-gemini-cli/blob/eeff2ab1fc409f796c6ae8f3665077bc5c0bcf73/index.ts#L38
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