@google/gemini-cli-core 0.21.0-nightly.20251218.739c02bd6 → 0.21.0-nightly.20251220.41a1a3eed

package/dist/docs/cli/authentication.md

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+# Authentication setup
+
+See: [Getting Started - Authentication Setup](../get-started/authentication.md).

package/dist/docs/cli/checkpointing.md

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+# Checkpointing
+
+The Gemini CLI includes a Checkpointing feature that automatically saves a
+snapshot of your project's state before any file modifications are made by
+AI-powered tools. This allows you to safely experiment with and apply code
+changes, knowing you can instantly revert back to the state before the tool was
+run.
+
+## How it works
+
+When you approve a tool that modifies the file system (like `write_file` or
+`replace`), the CLI automatically creates a "checkpoint." This checkpoint
+includes:
+
+1.  **A Git snapshot:** A commit is made in a special, shadow Git repository
+    located in your home directory (`~/.gemini/history/<project_hash>`). This
+    snapshot captures the complete state of your project files at that moment.
+    It does **not** interfere with your own project's Git repository.
+2.  **Conversation history:** The entire conversation you've had with the agent
+    up to that point is saved.
+3.  **The tool call:** The specific tool call that was about to be executed is
+    also stored.
+
+If you want to undo the change or simply go back, you can use the `/restore`
+command. Restoring a checkpoint will:
+
+- Revert all files in your project to the state captured in the snapshot.
+- Restore the conversation history in the CLI.
+- Re-propose the original tool call, allowing you to run it again, modify it, or
+  simply ignore it.
+
+All checkpoint data, including the Git snapshot and conversation history, is
+stored locally on your machine. The Git snapshot is stored in the shadow
+repository while the conversation history and tool calls are saved in a JSON
+file in your project's temporary directory, typically located at
+`~/.gemini/tmp/<project_hash>/checkpoints`.
+
+## Enabling the feature
+
+The Checkpointing feature is disabled by default. To enable it, you need to edit
+your `settings.json` file.
+
+> **Note:** The `--checkpointing` command-line flag was removed in version
+> 0.11.0. Checkpointing can now only be enabled through the `settings.json`
+> configuration file.
+
+Add the following key to your `settings.json`:
+
+```json
+{
+  "general": {
+    "checkpointing": {
+      "enabled": true
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+## Using the `/restore` command
+
+Once enabled, checkpoints are created automatically. To manage them, you use the
+`/restore` command.
+
+### List available checkpoints
+
+To see a list of all saved checkpoints for the current project, simply run:
+
+```
+/restore
+```
+
+The CLI will display a list of available checkpoint files. These file names are
+typically composed of a timestamp, the name of the file being modified, and the
+name of the tool that was about to be run (e.g.,
+`2025-06-22T10-00-00_000Z-my-file.txt-write_file`).
+
+### Restore a specific checkpoint
+
+To restore your project to a specific checkpoint, use the checkpoint file from
+the list:
+
+```
+/restore <checkpoint_file>
+```
+
+For example:
+
+```
+/restore 2025-06-22T10-00-00_000Z-my-file.txt-write_file
+```
+
+After running the command, your files and conversation will be immediately
+restored to the state they were in when the checkpoint was created, and the
+original tool prompt will reappear.

package/dist/docs/cli/commands.md

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+# CLI commands
+
+Gemini CLI supports several built-in commands to help you manage your session,
+customize the interface, and control its behavior. These commands are prefixed
+with a forward slash (`/`), an at symbol (`@`), or an exclamation mark (`!`).
+
+## Slash commands (`/`)
+
+Slash commands provide meta-level control over the CLI itself.
+
+### Built-in Commands
+
+- **`/bug`**
+  - **Description:** File an issue about Gemini CLI. By default, the issue is
+    filed within the GitHub repository for Gemini CLI. The string you enter
+    after `/bug` will become the headline for the bug being filed. The default
+    `/bug` behavior can be modified using the `advanced.bugCommand` setting in
+    your `.gemini/settings.json` files.
+
+- **`/chat`**
+  - **Description:** Save and resume conversation history for branching
+    conversation state interactively, or resuming a previous state from a later
+    session.
+  - **Sub-commands:**
+    - **`save`**
+      - **Description:** Saves the current conversation history. You must add a
+        `<tag>` for identifying the conversation state.
+      - **Usage:** `/chat save <tag>`
+      - **Details on checkpoint location:** The default locations for saved chat
+        checkpoints are:
+        - Linux/macOS: `~/.gemini/tmp/<project_hash>/`
+        - Windows: `C:\Users\<YourUsername>\.gemini\tmp\<project_hash>\`
+        - **Behavior:** Chats are saved into a project-specific directory,
+          determined by where you run the CLI. Consequently, saved chats are
+          only accessible when working within that same project.
+        - **Note:** These checkpoints are for manually saving and resuming
+          conversation states. For automatic checkpoints created before file
+          modifications, see the
+          [Checkpointing documentation](../cli/checkpointing.md).
+    - **`resume`**
+      - **Description:** Resumes a conversation from a previous save.
+      - **Usage:** `/chat resume <tag>`
+      - **Note:** You can only resume chats that were saved within the current
+        project. To resume a chat from a different project, you must run the
+        Gemini CLI from that project's directory.
+    - **`list`**
+      - **Description:** Lists available tags for chat state resumption.
+      - **Note:** This command only lists chats saved within the current
+        project. Because chat history is project-scoped, chats saved in other
+        project directories will not be displayed.
+    - **`delete`**
+      - **Description:** Deletes a saved conversation checkpoint.
+      - **Usage:** `/chat delete <tag>`
+    - **`share`**
+      - **Description** Writes the current conversation to a provided Markdown
+        or JSON file.
+      - **Usage** `/chat share file.md` or `/chat share file.json`. If no
+        filename is provided, then the CLI will generate one.
+
+- **`/clear`**
+  - **Description:** Clear the terminal screen, including the visible session
+    history and scrollback within the CLI. The underlying session data (for
+    history recall) might be preserved depending on the exact implementation,
+    but the visual display is cleared.
+  - **Keyboard shortcut:** Press **Ctrl+L** at any time to perform a clear
+    action.
+
+- **`/compress`**
+  - **Description:** Replace the entire chat context with a summary. This saves
+    on tokens used for future tasks while retaining a high level summary of what
+    has happened.
+
+- **`/copy`**
+  - **Description:** Copies the last output produced by Gemini CLI to your
+    clipboard, for easy sharing or reuse.
+  - **Note:** This command requires platform-specific clipboard tools to be
+    installed.
+    - On Linux, it requires `xclip` or `xsel`. You can typically install them
+      using your system's package manager.
+    - On macOS, it requires `pbcopy`, and on Windows, it requires `clip`. These
+      tools are typically pre-installed on their respective systems.
+
+- **`/directory`** (or **`/dir`**)
+  - **Description:** Manage workspace directories for multi-directory support.
+  - **Sub-commands:**
+    - **`add`**:
+      - **Description:** Add a directory to the workspace. The path can be
+        absolute or relative to the current working directory. Moreover, the
+        reference from home directory is supported as well.
+      - **Usage:** `/directory add <path1>,<path2>`
+      - **Note:** Disabled in restrictive sandbox profiles. If you're using
+        that, use `--include-directories` when starting the session instead.
+    - **`show`**:
+      - **Description:** Display all directories added by `/directory add` and
+        `--include-directories`.
+      - **Usage:** `/directory show`
+
+- **`/editor`**
+  - **Description:** Open a dialog for selecting supported editors.
+
+- **`/extensions`**
+  - **Description:** Lists all active extensions in the current Gemini CLI
+    session. See [Gemini CLI Extensions](../extensions/index.md).
+
+- **`/help`** (or **`/?`**)
+  - **Description:** Display help information about Gemini CLI, including
+    available commands and their usage.
+
+- **`/mcp`**
+  - **Description:** Manage configured Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
+  - **Sub-commands:**
+    - **`list`** or **`ls`**:
+      - **Description:** List configured MCP servers and tools. This is the
+        default action if no subcommand is specified.
+    - **`desc`**
+      - **Description:** List configured MCP servers and tools with
+        descriptions.
+    - **`schema`**:
+      - **Description:** List configured MCP servers and tools with descriptions
+        and schemas.
+    - **`auth`**:
+      - **Description:** Authenticate with an OAuth-enabled MCP server.
+      - **Usage:** `/mcp auth <server-name>`
+      - **Details:** If `<server-name>` is provided, it initiates the OAuth flow
+        for that server. If no server name is provided, it lists all configured
+        servers that support OAuth authentication.
+    - **`refresh`**:
+      - **Description:** Restarts all MCP servers and re-discovers their
+        available tools.
+
+- [**`/model`**](./model.md)
+  - **Description:** Opens a dialog to choose your Gemini model.
+
+- **`/memory`**
+  - **Description:** Manage the AI's instructional context (hierarchical memory
+    loaded from `GEMINI.md` files).
+  - **Sub-commands:**
+    - **`add`**:
+      - **Description:** Adds the following text to the AI's memory. Usage:
+        `/memory add <text to remember>`
+    - **`show`**:
+      - **Description:** Display the full, concatenated content of the current
+        hierarchical memory that has been loaded from all `GEMINI.md` files.
+        This lets you inspect the instructional context being provided to the
+        Gemini model.
+    - **`refresh`**:
+      - **Description:** Reload the hierarchical instructional memory from all
+        `GEMINI.md` files found in the configured locations (global,
+        project/ancestors, and sub-directories). This command updates the model
+        with the latest `GEMINI.md` content.
+    - **`list`**:
+      - **Description:** Lists the paths of the GEMINI.md files in use for
+        hierarchical memory.
+    - **Note:** For more details on how `GEMINI.md` files contribute to
+      hierarchical memory, see the
+      [CLI Configuration documentation](../get-started/configuration.md).
+
+- **`/restore`**
+  - **Description:** Restores the project files to the state they were in just
+    before a tool was executed. This is particularly useful for undoing file
+    edits made by a tool. If run without a tool call ID, it will list available
+    checkpoints to restore from.
+  - **Usage:** `/restore [tool_call_id]`
+  - **Note:** Only available if checkpointing is configured via
+    [settings](../get-started/configuration.md). See
+    [Checkpointing documentation](../cli/checkpointing.md) for more details.
+- **`/resume`**
+  - **Description:** Browse and resume previous conversation sessions. Opens an
+    interactive session browser where you can search, filter, and select from
+    automatically saved conversations.
+  - **Features:**
+    - **Session Browser:** Interactive interface showing all saved sessions with
+      timestamps, message counts, and first user message for context
+    - **Search:** Use `/` to search through conversation content across all
+      sessions
+    - **Sorting:** Sort sessions by date or message count
+    - **Management:** Delete unwanted sessions directly from the browser
+    - **Resume:** Select any session to resume and continue the conversation
+  - **Note:** All conversations are automatically saved as you chat - no manual
+    saving required. See [Session Management](../cli/session-management.md) for
+    complete details.
+
+- [**`/settings`**](./settings.md)
+  - **Description:** Open the settings editor to view and modify Gemini CLI
+    settings.
+  - **Details:** This command provides a user-friendly interface for changing
+    settings that control the behavior and appearance of Gemini CLI. It is
+    equivalent to manually editing the `.gemini/settings.json` file, but with
+    validation and guidance to prevent errors. See the
+    [settings documentation](./settings.md) for a full list of available
+    settings.
+  - **Usage:** Simply run `/settings` and the editor will open. You can then
+    browse or search for specific settings, view their current values, and
+    modify them as desired. Changes to some settings are applied immediately,
+    while others require a restart.
+
+- **`/stats`**
+  - **Description:** Display detailed statistics for the current Gemini CLI
+    session, including token usage, cached token savings (when available), and
+    session duration. Note: Cached token information is only displayed when
+    cached tokens are being used, which occurs with API key authentication but
+    not with OAuth authentication at this time.
+
+- [**`/theme`**](./themes.md)
+  - **Description:** Open a dialog that lets you change the visual theme of
+    Gemini CLI.
+
+- **`/auth`**
+  - **Description:** Open a dialog that lets you change the authentication
+    method.
+
+- **`/about`**
+  - **Description:** Show version info. Please share this information when
+    filing issues.
+
+- [**`/tools`**](../tools/index.md)
+  - **Description:** Display a list of tools that are currently available within
+    Gemini CLI.
+  - **Usage:** `/tools [desc]`
+  - **Sub-commands:**
+    - **`desc`** or **`descriptions`**:
+      - **Description:** Show detailed descriptions of each tool, including each
+        tool's name with its full description as provided to the model.
+    - **`nodesc`** or **`nodescriptions`**:
+      - **Description:** Hide tool descriptions, showing only the tool names.
+
+- **`/privacy`**
+  - **Description:** Display the Privacy Notice and allow users to select
+    whether they consent to the collection of their data for service improvement
+    purposes.
+
+- **`/quit`** (or **`/exit`**)
+  - **Description:** Exit Gemini CLI.
+
+- **`/vim`**
+  - **Description:** Toggle vim mode on or off. When vim mode is enabled, the
+    input area supports vim-style navigation and editing commands in both NORMAL
+    and INSERT modes.
+  - **Features:**
+    - **NORMAL mode:** Navigate with `h`, `j`, `k`, `l`; jump by words with `w`,
+      `b`, `e`; go to line start/end with `0`, `$`, `^`; go to specific lines
+      with `G` (or `gg` for first line)
+    - **INSERT mode:** Standard text input with escape to return to NORMAL mode
+    - **Editing commands:** Delete with `x`, change with `c`, insert with `i`,
+      `a`, `o`, `O`; complex operations like `dd`, `cc`, `dw`, `cw`
+    - **Count support:** Prefix commands with numbers (e.g., `3h`, `5w`, `10G`)
+    - **Repeat last command:** Use `.` to repeat the last editing operation
+    - **Persistent setting:** Vim mode preference is saved to
+      `~/.gemini/settings.json` and restored between sessions
+  - **Status indicator:** When enabled, shows `[NORMAL]` or `[INSERT]` in the
+    footer
+
+- **`/init`**
+  - **Description:** To help users easily create a `GEMINI.md` file, this
+    command analyzes the current directory and generates a tailored context
+    file, making it simpler for them to provide project-specific instructions to
+    the Gemini agent.
+
+### Custom commands
+
+Custom commands allow you to create personalized shortcuts for your most-used
+prompts. For detailed instructions on how to create, manage, and use them,
+please see the dedicated [Custom Commands documentation](./custom-commands.md).
+
+## Input prompt shortcuts
+
+These shortcuts apply directly to the input prompt for text manipulation.
+
+- **Undo:**
+  - **Keyboard shortcut:** Press **Ctrl+z** to undo the last action in the input
+    prompt.
+
+- **Redo:**
+  - **Keyboard shortcut:** Press **Ctrl+Shift+Z** to redo the last undone action
+    in the input prompt.
+
+## At commands (`@`)
+
+At commands are used to include the content of files or directories as part of
+your prompt to Gemini. These commands include git-aware filtering.
+
+- **`@<path_to_file_or_directory>`**
+  - **Description:** Inject the content of the specified file or files into your
+    current prompt. This is useful for asking questions about specific code,
+    text, or collections of files.
+  - **Examples:**
+    - `@path/to/your/file.txt Explain this text.`
+    - `@src/my_project/ Summarize the code in this directory.`
+    - `What is this file about? @README.md`
+  - **Details:**
+    - If a path to a single file is provided, the content of that file is read.
+    - If a path to a directory is provided, the command attempts to read the
+      content of files within that directory and any subdirectories.
+    - Spaces in paths should be escaped with a backslash (e.g.,
+      `@My\ Documents/file.txt`).
+    - The command uses the `read_many_files` tool internally. The content is
+      fetched and then inserted into your query before being sent to the Gemini
+      model.
+    - **Git-aware filtering:** By default, git-ignored files (like
+      `node_modules/`, `dist/`, `.env`, `.git/`) are excluded. This behavior can
+      be changed via the `context.fileFiltering` settings.
+    - **File types:** The command is intended for text-based files. While it
+      might attempt to read any file, binary files or very large files might be
+      skipped or truncated by the underlying `read_many_files` tool to ensure
+      performance and relevance. The tool indicates if files were skipped.
+  - **Output:** The CLI will show a tool call message indicating that
+    `read_many_files` was used, along with a message detailing the status and
+    the path(s) that were processed.
+
+- **`@` (Lone at symbol)**
+  - **Description:** If you type a lone `@` symbol without a path, the query is
+    passed as-is to the Gemini model. This might be useful if you are
+    specifically talking _about_ the `@` symbol in your prompt.
+
+### Error handling for `@` commands
+
+- If the path specified after `@` is not found or is invalid, an error message
+  will be displayed, and the query might not be sent to the Gemini model, or it
+  will be sent without the file content.
+- If the `read_many_files` tool encounters an error (e.g., permission issues),
+  this will also be reported.
+
+## Shell mode and passthrough commands (`!`)
+
+The `!` prefix lets you interact with your system's shell directly from within
+Gemini CLI.
+
+- **`!<shell_command>`**
+  - **Description:** Execute the given `<shell_command>` using `bash` on
+    Linux/macOS or `powershell.exe -NoProfile -Command` on Windows (unless you
+    override `ComSpec`). Any output or errors from the command are displayed in
+    the terminal.
+  - **Examples:**
+    - `!ls -la` (executes `ls -la` and returns to Gemini CLI)
+    - `!git status` (executes `git status` and returns to Gemini CLI)
+
+- **`!` (Toggle shell mode)**
+  - **Description:** Typing `!` on its own toggles shell mode.
+    - **Entering shell mode:**
+      - When active, shell mode uses a different coloring and a "Shell Mode
+        Indicator".
+      - While in shell mode, text you type is interpreted directly as a shell
+        command.
+    - **Exiting shell mode:**
+      - When exited, the UI reverts to its standard appearance and normal Gemini
+        CLI behavior resumes.
+
+- **Caution for all `!` usage:** Commands you execute in shell mode have the
+  same permissions and impact as if you ran them directly in your terminal.
+
+- **Environment variable:** When a command is executed via `!` or in shell mode,
+  the `GEMINI_CLI=1` environment variable is set in the subprocess's
+  environment. This allows scripts or tools to detect if they are being run from
+  within the Gemini CLI.