Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

(developers.googleblog.com)

98 points | by primaprashant 10 hours ago ago

33 comments

  • simonw 3 hours ago ago

    Gemini CLI was open source (Apache 2): https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli

    Antigravity CLI is not - the repo has a README and an animated gif demo: https://github.com/google-antigravity/antigravity-cli

    • xnx 2 hours ago ago

      There's a comment from a Googler that there's a chance Antigravity will be open sourced.

  • silverlight 4 hours ago ago

    Google really can’t help themselves but to have some internal re-org kill off a public thing people are actively using. It’s honestly impressive how consistent they are.

    • brookst 3 hours ago ago

      The rest of out here watching usage and telemetry to decide where to invest, meanwhile, over at Google…

      • wmf 21 minutes ago ago

        What if their telemetry shows very low usage? I've seen virtually no discussion of Gemini CLI online.

  • srameshc 2 hours ago ago

    Whoever is in charge of these decisions, is absolutely disconnected with the reality. First they sent a message saying the Ultra plan is ending, with no other option for a Workspace use to buy an equivalent plan. It was suppose to be active tilll June or July 7 , that's all. So the users are not suppose to know how they will need to plan or budget and just guess. I read once that after a certain level , the managers need to make their own decisions. Seems like someone just came in and decided that all the Gemini CLI and Antigravity needs to be one , because some other manager thought Antigravity was a better name than Gemini or whatever and started this mess in the first place. I am loosing my faith in these managers and Google.

    • asdfsa32 21 minutes ago ago

      > Whoever is in charge of these decisions, is absolutely disconnected with the reality.

      The problem is with your perception of reality. Google doesn't operate for the outside, you're on the outside, Google operates for Google and people in Google care about themselves first, then Google, and then -- if t all, outside.

  • amirhirsch 2 hours ago ago

    I would love to sign up for antigravity cli but when I click on Get Plan it says: “This account isn't eligible for Google Antigravity benefits included with Google AI plans Google Antigravity benefits included with Google AI plans aren't available in some countries or for people under a certain age. Learn more about Google One feature eligibility.” With a button that says “Explore Google AI Plans” that when I click on it takes me to my Drive.

    I can’t believe our Google account setup is different from any other startup in SF. Anyone have success with this? Do they even have a bot at Google that tracks this attrition?

    • biinjo 26 minutes ago ago

      This is the main reason I’m not using Gemini for work. Google won’t let me pay for it. I pay for just about every AI service under the sun but Google needs to refuse my card, account, location or a combination of these.

      But they happily take my money for a couple of Workspce accounts.

  • mccoyb 2 hours ago ago

    Mechanics that I found in the binary with a few agents, more information than I could glean from the GitHub page or the docs:

    - A Chrome DevTools Protocol / Playwright client.

    - macOS Seatbelt sandbox (--sandbox flag) with some special Node / v8 stuff.

    - Sentry for crash reporting and Unleash for feature flags.

    - A SKILL.md system mirroring Anthropic's skills convention.

    - Subagents, an artifacts review workflow (slash commands), and conversation rewind.

    - Telemetry redaction in several places (good?)

    - go-git bundled in there.

    - go-enry / linguist's entire language table: many file extension/syntax tags (Cairo, Stacks Clarity, Modelica, KiCad, etc.) bundled in there.

    All in all, a 140 MB Go binary with its own browser control stack, sandbox, Git, language detector, skills runtime, and subagent system.

    I'm good, I'll stick with pi and codex. Less is more my friends.

  • tedk-42 43 minutes ago ago

    Google foeling more like Hooli these days.

    "need to install a complete desktop app to get access to our new CLI"

    • piyh 33 minutes ago ago

      They nuked anti-gravity and installed their codex knockoff in place. The vs code fork IDE and all your settings with it have been removed. Reinstalling the anti-gravity IDE, as it's been renamed does not bring back any of your settings or extensions.

      This is a cluster across the entire product line

  • maoeurk 4 hours ago ago

    Stop working? It never even started working for me, I tried it and always just got errors or lack of quota.

  • 3683826312819 2 hours ago ago

    So it gains feature-parity with the Gemini vscode extension, which has stopped working the day they released it.

  • sheepscreek 2 hours ago ago

    This is the right move but I don’t know if I am ready to try them again. I am still bitter from the significantly reduced quotas, even on Ultra, their highest tier. Claude became unusable for me.

    It would be much better if they just gave up on Gemini for coding and exclusively adopted Claude models. Even Deep Mind folks themselves prefer Claude over Gemini[1].

    [1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-deepmind-ai-tool-divi...

    • lern_too_spel 2 hours ago ago

      Confirmed. It's still a bad idea to use it. If you hit your quota, it doesn't refill for a week.

  • 2001zhaozhao 4 hours ago ago

    I read through the docs. There is no mention of whether programmatic usage or Agent Client Protocol will continue be supported in Antigravity CLI.

    • wmf 2 hours ago ago

      People are saying it doesn't have ACP at all. We don't know if that's an intentional decision or a temporary gap.

  • LTL_FTC 2 hours ago ago

    Looks like Antigravity cli is moving to weekly limits whereas Gemini cli was daily. Ouch

  • anderber an hour ago ago

    So now there's 3 different Antigravity products: CLI, Antigravity 2, and Antigravity IDE. And Gemini CLI goes to the Google graveyard of products. Wow.

  • grim_io 5 hours ago ago

    Welcome to the Google graveyard, Gemini CLI.

    Not that it will be missed much. Using it was the worst experience out of any harness.

    • myko an hour ago ago

      Copilot CLI would like a word

  • jsLavaGoat 10 hours ago ago

    Yeah, so they are worried about things like CAS that let you use lots of CLI agents from different companies. The fork I'm using lets me use Claude and Codex, and Gemini if I want, but I haven't much lately. Anyway, that sounds like what's happening. Is that wrong?

    • 2001zhaozhao 3 hours ago ago

      I think we will need to move to workarounds based on MCP going forwards.

      > run CLI agent with an initial prompt

      > tell the agent it isn't allowed to directly reply to the user and must use your tool instead. also all of the CLI's original interactive tools are blocked and it has to use your alternatives

      > when the agent uses tools in the MCP, it redirects to your GUI's prompt editor

  • vegnus 10 hours ago ago

    And Antigravity CLI starts working from today, interesting

  • danpalmer 3 hours ago ago

    FWIW, centralising on a single harness in Antigravity seems like a great idea.

  • nh43215rgb 2 hours ago ago

    agy cli is a disaster and half baked product. It wont even resize itself when i maximize terminal.

  • antibios an hour ago ago

    Crap! I was using this to manage my hledger files and it did a decent job.

  • re-thc 10 hours ago ago

    This is so confusing. So what happens to Gemini Code Assist plans?

    What do the Antigravity quotas mean per plan?

    • 0gs 3 hours ago ago

      Gemini Code Assist goes away i believe

      • jckahn an hour ago ago

        This is awful. I got so much use out of it!

  • mpalmer 5 hours ago ago

    Say goodbye to metered usage via API keys you control, and hello to opaque pricing and usage limits.

  • 0xbadcafebee 2 hours ago ago

    Good riddance. Gemini CLI was hot garbage.