Key highlights for week of 8/4/2025

[NTaylorMullen]

• 🎉 Gemini CLI VSCode Integration 🎉: Gemini CLI is now deeply integrated with VS Code when running from the integrated terminal. Get intelligent, context-aware suggestions and native in-editor diffing to review and modify changes directly in your IDE. (vid, @chrstnb, @skeshive and team)
  • Launch Gemini CLI in VSCode to setup (pic)
  • Manage your VSCode integration with /ide (pic)
  • Learn more: blog
• MCP:
  • Add, remove, and list MCP servers directly from the command line with gemini mcp add|remove|list (gif, docs, blog, pr by @jackwotherspoon)
  • Gemini CLI now supports MCP roots (pr by @jakemac53)
  • Multimodal content from tool outputs is now supported, i.e. images, audio etc. (gif, docs, blog, pr by @luccasparoni)
  • Servers that only have prompts for slash commands are now supported (pr by @haroldmciver-go)
• Responsive Terminal UI: The CLI layout now automatically adapts to narrow terminal widths (vid, pr by @galz10)
• Reverse Command Search: Press ctrl+r in shell mode to instantly search your command history. (gif, pr by @Aisha630)
• Configure Context Compression: Customize the context window percentage that triggers auto-compression via settings.json. (docs, pr by @jakemac53)
• Disable Update Notification: Disable the version update notification message with ”disableUpdateNag”: true (pr by @bbiggs)
• Multi-Directory Support Setting: Automatically load directories at startup by configuring them in settings.json with ”includeDirectories”: [...] (pr by @y-okt)
• Hide Line Numbers: Hide line numbers in code blocks with "showLineNumbers": false for easier copy and paste (docs, pr by @galz10)
• Small features, Polish, Reliability & Bug Fixes: A large amount of changes, smaller features, UI updates, reliability and bug fixes + general polish made it in this week!

Release: v0.1.20