feedback: error when using free AI model from gemini-cli or codex-cli

[feiwu77777]

Feedback Summary

When setting up the 3 models for task master, I wanted to ask what are the free options such as gemini-cli or codex-cli? Why are those providers free? What is the catch?

[Crunchyman-ralph]

What issue are you running into?

I'm able to use them.

Can you try using them in the CLI?

[feiwu77777]

When parsing my PRD I got:

[INFO] Tag 'master' is empty or doesn't exist. Creating/updating tag with new tasks.
⠋ Parsing PRD and generating tasks...
⠙ Parsing PRD and generating tasks...
⠋ Parsing PRD and generating tasks...
[ERROR] Gemini CLI object generation failed: No object generated: response did not match schema.

But it later worked for other cmd like analyze-complexity. But my question is more about what are those free options? I thought we had to setup our own api keys and pay when using task-msater

[Crunchyman-ralph]

Yeah, so when we say "free" it means it's cli providers like Claude code, codex, Gemini cli where you don't have to put an api key for it to work when running

Taskmaster models --setup

[feiwu77777]

ok thank you, I understand now, I didnt know what a cli provider like Claude Code was and looked into it and understand now. So I guess setting these CLI providers as the main model and then a fallback model with normal API is a good combo for cheaper development

[Crunchyman-ralph]

Exactly!