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Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by Rebuff5007 »

thecupisblue wrote: post #8

Wait, is this CLI or is this a github action or is this a github application? Also, I thought Jules was the "coding agent" they are working on. Now this is taking it over or is this like another case of Google self-competing? Someone needs to take charge at this company with a strong vision, because they are all over the place and spreading themselves thin, which in turn spreads thin the customer/brand equity. At thi…

I believe in silicon valley terms, this is called "moving fast and breaking things"

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by MaxPock »

gexla wrote: post #18
thecupisblue wrote: post #8

Wait, is this CLI or is this a github action or is this a github application? Also, I thought Jules was the "coding agent" they are working on. Now this is taking it over or is this like another case of Google self-competing? Someone needs to take charge at this company with a strong vision, because they are all over the place and spreading themselves thin, which in turn spreads thin the customer/brand equity. At thi…

My take on this is that Google has a bunch of "incubating" spaces where they have teams of people building things that may or may not take off. So, when something does take off, it sort of becomes a victim of its own success. It confuses people because it's not a "core" Google product that fits nicely among other Google products. NotebookLLM seems to be another example. Personally, I would rather Google did this sort…

I've come to realize that life is all about having different eggs in different baskets . Some will go bad and some will hatch into beautiful chicks .

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by johnecheck »

siva7 wrote: post #9
dude250711 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having some end users is a tolerable side-effect of their activities for Google. The primary goals are promotions, bonuses and stock price.

> The primary goals are promotions, bonuses and stock price. If that's the case, last i checked they are doing pretty well on stock price.

The markets are fickle. That can change quickly.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by ants_everywhere »

thecupisblue wrote: post #8

Wait, is this CLI or is this a github action or is this a github application? Also, I thought Jules was the "coding agent" they are working on. Now this is taking it over or is this like another case of Google self-competing? Someone needs to take charge at this company with a strong vision, because they are all over the place and spreading themselves thin, which in turn spreads thin the customer/brand equity. At thi…

gemini-cli is a command line tool that calls Gemini and shells out to common text utilities and MCP for tool use.

This appears to just be a plugin where you do things on GitHub, that sends out notifications to gemini-cli running on cloud, then gemini-cli responds and sends notifications back.

Basically just saving you the hassle of cloning at a specific commit, calling gemini-cli manually, and then uploading the result manually.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by brtkwr »

artdigital wrote: post #13

I wonder why they call this `gemini cli`, it's not really a CLI anymore when it's primarily used through GitHub, is it? Why not follow Claude Code naming with this and just call it `gemini github action` or `run gemini`?

I wondered the same thing, naming things is hard but they've royally screwed up the naming here.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by brtkwr »

It seems too good to be true that this is free, unless training data is the price we'll end up paying with. Also there is no option to opt-out which is all the more sinister. I guess it should be used with caution in private/internal repos.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by radarsat1 »

turblety wrote: post #2

> 7. Google One and Ultra plans, Gemini for Workspace plans These plans currently apply only to the use of Gemini web-based products provided by Google-based experiences (for example, the Gemini web app or the Flow video editor). These plans do not apply to the API usage which powers the Gemini CLI. Supporting these plans is under active consideration for future support. Again, with the complicated subscription. Plea…

I'm honestly a bit confused by the free tier of Gemini. I've been using it with different agents (Aider, and then Crush), and I hit the rate limits FAST. Like, after maybe 5 or 6 requests it just blows up. Then I can try again quite a few times, and it hits the limit. Then eventually I guess I hit my daily limit and it just stops working until the next day.

I mean this has been enough to get my feet wet and have some fun with exploring agent-based development, no doubt, and I appreciate it, but I'm having a hard time crossing my experience with,

> generous free-of-charge quotas

as they say. It's not that generous if it stops working after 5 mins? (This morning literally a single sentence I typed into Crush resulted in some back and forth I guess it called the API a few times and it just rate limited-out. Fine, it was probably a lot of requests going on, but, but I literally gave it a single small job to do and it couldn't finish it.)

Meanwhile I seem to be able to use the Gemini web app endlessly and haven't hit any limits yet.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by kubb »

gexla wrote: post #18
thecupisblue wrote: post #8

Wait, is this CLI or is this a github action or is this a github application? Also, I thought Jules was the "coding agent" they are working on. Now this is taking it over or is this like another case of Google self-competing? Someone needs to take charge at this company with a strong vision, because they are all over the place and spreading themselves thin, which in turn spreads thin the customer/brand equity. At thi…

My take on this is that Google has a bunch of "incubating" spaces where they have teams of people building things that may or may not take off. So, when something does take off, it sort of becomes a victim of its own success. It confuses people because it's not a "core" Google product that fits nicely among other Google products. NotebookLLM seems to be another example. Personally, I would rather Google did this sort…

Yeah and they have like 50 coding agents, because everyone in the entire company turned to doing the same thing. There's not that much you can invent in this space.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by dcre »

v5v3 wrote: post #28

Isn't there not a trademark issue over naming it Gemini CLI GitHub Actions? As Microsoft own GitHub and it's a competitor.

If that was the case, nobody but GitHub could build actions. There is a whole GitHub Actions Marketplace and Google is in there.

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/run-gemini-cli

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