Key highlights for week of 8/25/2025 - v0.3.1

[NTaylorMullen]

Here is Gemini CLI’s August 25th weekly update for v0.3.1

Key Highlights:

• 🎉 Gemini CLI GitHub Actions v0.1.12 Highlights 🎉
  • Awesome workflows collection. Contribute yours (details)
  • Automatically trigger Gemini CLI for code reviews, issue triage, and custom commands directly from your GitHub issues and pull requests (details)
  • GOOGLE_API_KEY environment variable support (pr by @vivekkairi)
  • Select your model with the GEMINI_MODEL environment variable (pr by @vivekkairi)
• Custom Theming:
  • Load custom CLI themes directly from a local JSON file (gif, pr by @santhoshkumarCodes)
  • Write your own theme in settings.json (docs, pr by @ali-aljufairi)
• OpenTelemetry HTTP Exporter: Configure the CLI to export telemetry data via HTTP with --telemetry-otlp-protocol. (demo, pr by @bbiggs)
• Allowed Tools: Bypass the confirmation prompt for trusted and frequently used tools with --allowed-tools. (demo, docs, pr by @werdnum)
• Bulk Tool Call Approval: Automatically approve all pending tool calls for a specific tool within a single response when selecting "Yes, allow always." (demo, pr by @bulkypanda)
• System Defaults Config: Set system-wide default settings via system-defaults.json that can be overridden by user and workspace configurations. (docs, pr by @bbiggs)
• Editable String Settings: Modify text-based settings directly in /settings (pr by @jacob314)
• Fixed Instruction Following Issue: Previously when the model would error we wouldn’t surface it and would result in the model not following instructions. We now surface the error. (error, @mrcabbage972)
• Gemini CLI and MCP: Diving into extending Gemini CLI with MCP servers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYpt25GHB1U
• Workshop: In-person developer workshops for Agents, MCP, and Gemini CLI. The workshops are filling quickly, but the lab is also available publicly.
• 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!