Gemini CLI weekly update for v0.2.1

[NTaylorMullen]

Key Highlights:

• 🎉Gemini CLI Zed Integration 🎉: Zed has integrated their first third-party agent…Gemini CLI! Watch Gemini CLI weave through your codebase and integrate Zed’s context to super power your workflow (gif)
  • Launch a Gemini CLI Thread in Zed’s Agent Panel to get a fully integrated experience (follow the agent, review code like a pull request, etc.)
  • Announcement: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-cli-is-now-integrated-into-zed/
• Settings Dialog: Access and modify Gemini CLI settings through a new UI panel accessed via /settings (gif, pr by @ali-aljufairi)
• Message Queuing: Type and queue messages while the AI is responding, which are then sent automatically. (gif, pr by @akhil29)
• Code Stats: View the lines of code added and removed during a session using /stats or via OTEL. (pic, pr by @bulkypanda and pr by @agarwalravikant)
• Custom Slash Commands:
  • Shell executions can utilize user provided arguments (docs, pr by @abhipatel12)
  • YOLO mode is now respected (pr by @abhipatel12)
• MCP:
  • Improved OAuth support. Connect to services like GitHub and other third-party tools using OAuth with a client ID and secret (pr by @emeryray2002)
  • Root change notification support. Automatically notifies MCP servers when the root directory(s) are updated. (pr by @jakemac53)
• Better Multi-line Input Support: Run /terminal-setup to configure your terminal to allow shift + enter support in the prompt box (pr by @deepankarsharma)
• Headless Allow All Edits: Allow Gemini CLI to edit files headlessly with --approval-mode auto_edit (docs, pr by @bulkypanda)
• VSCode Multi-Workspace Picker: When in a multi-workspace environment you will now be asked to pick one (pr by @skeshive)
• Double Escape to Clear: Quickly clear the prompt box buffer by pressing the Escape key twice. (pr by @lifefloating)
• Ctrl + C to Cancel: Cancel in-progress responses with a single Ctrl+C (pr by @JayadityaGit)
• 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!