bug:

[vhar-astro]

Description

Task-master fails to parse PRD with gemini-cli provider, throwing an error: config?.getUsageStatisticsEnabled is not a function

Steps to Reproduce

task-master parse-prd --input=.taskmaster/docs/prd.txt

Expected Behavior

It should successfully parse PRD either via MCP tool or via CLI

Actual Behavior

config?.getUsageStatisticsEnabled is not a function

Screenshots or Logs

`task-master parse-prd --input=.taskmaster/docs/prd.txt
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╭───────────────────────────────────────────╮
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│   Version: 0.24.0   Project: Taskmaster   │
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╰───────────────────────────────────────────╯

🏷️ tag: master
Parsing PRD file: /home/user/Development/task-master/mcp-fix-01/.taskmaster/docs/prd.txt
Generating 10 tasks...
⠋ Parsing PRD and generating tasks...
[INFO] Parsing PRD file: /home/user/Development/task-master/mcp-fix-01/.taskmaster/docs/prd.txt, Force: false, Append: false, Research: false
[INFO] Tag 'master' is empty or doesn't exist. Creating/updating tag with new tasks.
[INFO] Reading PRD content from /home/user/Development/task-master/mcp-fix-01/.taskmaster/docs/prd.txt
[INFO] ✓ JSON schema validation enabled
[INFO] Calling AI service to generate tasks from PRD...
⠼ Parsing PRD and generating tasks...
⠴ Parsing PRD and generating tasks...
[ERROR] Gemini CLI object generation failed: Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: config?.getUsageStatisticsEnabled is not a function {"error":{"name":"AI_RetryError","reason":"maxRetriesExceeded","errors":[{"name":"AI_APICallError","cause":{},"url":"gemini-cli-core","requestBodyValues":{},"statusCode":500,"responseHeaders":{},"isRetryable":true,"data":{}},{"name":"AI_APICallError","cause":{},"url":"gemini-cli-core","requestBodyValues":{},"statusCode":500,"responseHeaders":{},"isRetryable":true,"data":{}},{"name":"AI_APICallError","cause":{},"url":"gemini-cli-core","requestBodyValues":{},"statusCode":500,"responseHeaders":{},"isRetryable":true,"data":{}}],"lastError":{"name":"AI_APICallError","cause":{},"url":"gemini-cli-core","requestBodyValues":{},"statusCode":500,"responseHeaders":{},"isRetryable":true,"data":{}}}}
[WARN] Attempt 1 failed for role main (generateObject / gemini-cli): Gemini CLI API error during object generation: Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: config?.getUsageStatisticsEnabled is not a function
[ERROR] Something went wrong on the provider side. Max retries reached for role main (generateObject / gemini-cli).
[ERROR] Service call failed for role main (Provider: gemini-cli, Model: gemini-2.5-pro): Gemini CLI API error during object generation: Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: config?.getUsageStatisticsEnabled is not a function
⠧ Parsing PRD and generating tasks...
[ERROR] Gemini CLI object generation failed: Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: config?.getUsageStatisticsEnabled is not a function {"error":{"name":"AI_RetryError","reason":"maxRetriesExceeded","errors":[{"name":"AI_APICallError","cause":{},"url":"gemini-cli-core","requestBodyValues":{},"statusCode":500,"responseHeaders":{},"isRetryable":true,"data":{}},{"name":"AI_APICallError","cause":{},"url":"gemini-cli-core","requestBodyValues":{},"statusCode":500,"responseHeaders":{},"isRetryable":true,"data":{}},{"name":"AI_APICallError","cause":{},"url":"gemini-cli-core","requestBodyValues":{},"statusCode":500,"responseHeaders":{},"isRetryable":true,"data":{}}],"lastError":{"name":"AI_APICallError","cause":{},"url":"gemini-cli-core","requestBodyValues":{},"statusCode":500,"responseHeaders":{},"isRetryable":true,"data":{}}}}
[WARN] Attempt 1 failed for role fallback (generateObject / gemini-cli): Gemini CLI API error during object generation: Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: config?.getUsageStatisticsEnabled is not a function
[ERROR] Something went wrong on the provider side. Max retries reached for role fallback (generateObject / gemini-cli).
[ERROR] Service call failed for role fallback (Provider: gemini-cli, Model: gemini-2.5-flash): Gemini CLI API error during object generation: Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: config?.getUsageStatisticsEnabled is not a function
⠋ Parsing PRD and generating tasks...
[ERROR] Gemini CLI object generation failed: Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: config?.getUsageStatisticsEnabled is not a function {"error":{"name":"AI_RetryError","reason":"maxRetriesExceeded","errors":[{"name":"AI_APICallError","cause":{},"url":"gemini-cli-core","requestBodyValues":{},"statusCode":500,"responseHeaders":{},"isRetryable":true,"data":{}},{"name":"AI_APICallError","cause":{},"url":"gemini-cli-core","requestBodyValues":{},"statusCode":500,"responseHeaders":{},"isRetryable":true,"data":{}},{"name":"AI_APICallError","cause":{},"url":"gemini-cli-core","requestBodyValues":{},"statusCode":500,"responseHeaders":{},"isRetryable":true,"data":{}}],"lastError":{"name":"AI_APICallError","cause":{},"url":"gemini-cli-core","requestBodyValues":{},"statusCode":500,"responseHeaders":{},"isRetryable":true,"data":{}}}}
[WARN] Attempt 1 failed for role research (generateObject / gemini-cli): Gemini CLI API error during object generation: Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: config?.getUsageStatisticsEnabled is not a function
[ERROR] Something went wrong on the provider side. Max retries reached for role research (generateObject / gemini-cli).
[ERROR] Service call failed for role research (Provider: gemini-cli, Model: gemini-2.5-pro): Gemini CLI API error during object generation: Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: config?.getUsageStatisticsEnabled is not a function
[ERROR] All roles in the sequence [main, fallback, research] failed.
[ERROR] Error parsing PRD: Gemini CLI API error during object generation: Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: config?.getUsageStatisticsEnabled is not a function
✖ Error parsing PRD: Gemini CLI API error during object generation: Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: config?.getUsageStatisticsEnabled is not a function`

Environment

• Task Master version: 0.24.0, (0.25.0 does not throw errors, just hangs and does nothing). Tried to rollback to 0.23.0, also didn't help
• Node.js version: v20.19.4
• Operating system: Ubuntu 24.04
• IDE (if applicable): not applicable
• gemin-cli version: 0.1.22, also tried 0.11.1

Additional Context

This started happening after I've updated task-master to latest version. Further downgrades did not help; full wipe of nodejs from system did not help either.

[ben-vargas]

Thanks for reporting this @rentscopeby - Google/Gemini team is shipping hard/fast on gemini-cli as they try to catch up with Claude Code... they don't seem to be afraid to make breaking changes to @google/gemini-cli-core in patches (0.1.x) which really doesn't follow semantic versioning principles.

I've replicated this issue, and working on a fix make ai-sdk-provider-gemini-cli compatible with @google/gemini-cli-core@0.1.22 and I'm going to pin the dependency at 0.1.22 once this is working rather than allowing patches via ^0.1.13 as it is now.

Ultimately, the error you're seeing rolling back to task master 0.24.0 is an incompatibility between the ai-sdk-provider-gemini-cli@0.1.1 and @google/gemini-cli-core@0.1.22. The error in #1150 is known issue on task master 0.25.0, duplicate of #1145 which you can see more details on there.

[ben-vargas]

@rentscopeby - I've updated ai-sdk-provider-gemini-cli with compatibility with @google/gemini-cli-core@0.1.22 and this error is gone. Task Master will have to increment its package.json in an upcoming patch, you might be able to work around this temporarily by using this approach...

Temporary Fix for Gemini CLI Compatibility

To fix the this.config.getUsageStatisticsEnabled is not a function error, update the Gemini provider WITHIN your task-master installation:

  cd $(npm root -g)/task-master-ai && npm install ai-sdk-provider-gemini-cli@0.1.2

This updates the ai-sdk-provider-gemini-cli that task-master actually is using.

[github-actions]

Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

1. bug: Task generation fails #1138
2. bug: gemini-cli call failed #1059
3. bug: Gemini CLI API error during object generation. #1029

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[Crunchyman-ralph]

Nice, I also updated the gemini-cli package, so it should be resolved in 0.26.0