# google-gemini/gemini-cli

> Google's open-source AI agent that runs Gemini directly in the terminal: understands and edits code, answers questions about a repository and automates tasks. Supports MCP servers and a non-interactive mode for scripts.

- Magnitude: 5.9 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 107,872 total · +292 stars measured 2026-10-24, 11:39–18:41 UTC, ≈ 357 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: AI agents · Language: TypeScript · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2025-04-17 · Last push: 2026-10-24
- GitHub: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli · Homepage: https://geminicli.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/google-gemini/gemini-cli

## Useful for

- Explain an unfamiliar repository's architecture via gemini -p in the terminal
- Automate pull request queries and complex rebases in scripts
- Connect an MCP server to generate media with Imagen or Veo

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-24 (UTC), 11:39–18:41: 107580 → 107872 stars (+292). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +357 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 5.9× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending today: #8, +38 stars.
- GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #1, +38 stars.
- About 70 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 14,796
- Issues and pull requests: 27,715
- Watchers: 587
- Average over the last week: 86 per day
- Usual pace: 31 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 40
- Latest release: v0.67.0-nightly.20261024.gcd1b45c2d (2026-10-24)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-25 … 2026-10-24: 21, 20, 13, 27, 29, 41, 21, 26, 17, 18, 22, 20, 24, 24, 28, 30, 29, 25, 40, 53, 36, 37, 32, 27, 36, 37, 35, 49, 59, 292

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending today: #8, +38 stars
- GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #1, +38 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-24 18:51 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.