gemini-cli

Facts

Openness

Open source

Licence

Apache-2.0

Language

TypeScript

Pinned version

b460678 (2026-09-29)

Topics checked

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Kind of agent

Coding

Source repository (opens another site)

What it does notably well

• Budgets

  gemini-cli creates a DeadlineTimer of runConfig.maxTimeMinutes (default DEFAULT_MAX_TIME_MINUTES=10) only inside the local sub-agent executor, pausing it while the user confirms…

• Compaction

  gemini-cli ships two context-management implementations: the legacy ChatCompressionService (default, XML <state_snapshot>) and a graph-pipeline ContextManager enabled by…

  gemini-cli's compression prompt defines the <state_snapshot> skeleton with seven fields: overall_goal, active_constraints, key_knowledge, artifact_trail, file_system_state…

  gemini-cli's ChatCompressionService keeps the newest 30 percent of the history (COMPRESSION_PRESERVE_THRESHOLD=0.3), measured by JSON-serialized character length rather than…

• Errors and failover

  gemini-cli combines typed quota and validation error classes, exponential backoff with jitter and a capped attempt count, and an ordered same-provider model fallback chain in its…

  gemini-cli's retryWithBackoff sets attempt back to 0 and the delay back to its initial value whenever the fallback callback accepts a new model (and after a user verifies a…