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Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by northern-lights »

vidarh wrote: post #65
grogenaut wrote: post #64

I understand Google feels they need to compete in coding AI. The crazy thing to me is: - Gemini can't make me a calendar appointment between myself and another person for 30 minutes in the next week. Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert. I edit my docs in cline or Claude code as markdown and upload. - speaking of, I don't think they have a MCP for working wit…

Yeah, I figured I'd try Gemini for Google Docs, but given how restricted it is, why would I?

I asked Gemini to create a chart from the tabular data I had, and nope, it can't do that.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by bredren »

jtrn wrote: post #11

The amount of time I have to spend on investigations, to understand the basics of what something ACTUALLY IS, never ceases to amaze me. Having to scrape away buzzwords, ill-conceived descriptions, and unnecessary verbose stuff... it's tiresome. So i THINK this is what it IS: A GitHub Action that can be included in GitHub workflow YAML files. It executes the Gemini CLI, passing in prompts, repo context, and event data…

If you have it right, there is a brief discussion on semantic linting in this recent interview with Boris Cherny and Catherine Wu on the Latent Space podcast related to AI-assisted CLI behavior here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDmW5hJPsvQ&t=1760s

I've not explored this use of CC yet, anyone actively using AI-assisted CLI in CI/CD? Not automated PR review but either to semantically pass / fail an MR or some other use of terminal-capable, multi-context mashup during CI/CD?

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by james2doyle »

grogenaut wrote: post #64

I understand Google feels they need to compete in coding AI. The crazy thing to me is: - Gemini can't make me a calendar appointment between myself and another person for 30 minutes in the next week. Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert. I edit my docs in cline or Claude code as markdown and upload. - speaking of, I don't think they have a MCP for working wit…

I’ve actually been using Gemini on my phone to create appointments from details on my screen. For example, I have a delivery coming so there is an email with the date and time range. I can press and hold my power button and Gemini pops up. I press a button to use screen context. Then say, "put this in my calendar". Then it does. It isn’t perfect. Events that cross multiple days or odd location details in the description sometimes don’t get included. But that is more and more rare. I’m using an Android phone. So maybe that is why it seems to work. I do see that "mostly works" is not the same as "always works".

Also, if you are a Google Workspace customer, you can connect your workspace to the Gemini web app. It can then search and manipulate your calendar and your drive. It will also summarize documents and a few other tasks. I have less use for this but it is far from "it _can’t_ make appointments".

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by pphysch »

grogenaut wrote: post #64

I understand Google feels they need to compete in coding AI. The crazy thing to me is: - Gemini can't make me a calendar appointment between myself and another person for 30 minutes in the next week. Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert. I edit my docs in cline or Claude code as markdown and upload. - speaking of, I don't think they have a MCP for working wit…

> Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert.

I'm sure it's capable of doing those things, but they have it turned off because of the significant risks involved in automatically editing important documents like that.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by realprimoh »

lubujackson wrote: post #62
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…

Face it, they have hit the "Yahoo phase" of their company life. It was a good, long run. All that remains is buying larger and larger successful startups and grinding them in to dust. But the the "sunsetting" of projects good or bad, random shotgun approaches to everything, super awesome islands of product that slowly get bled dry... it is a failure of management structure, not just management. I don't know the guts…

People have been saying this for the last 10 years.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by ssalka »

Maybe a skill issue, but I've tried using Gemini 2.5 Pro in Cursor several times, and each time it is an abundance of thinking and very little (often incorrect) actions. Claude Sonnet is cheaper and much more effective for me.

Having a hard time imagining the GHA integration will be much different.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by fhinkel »

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`?

Because it installs gemini-cli in the GitHub Action VM and then passes the comment from the issue/PR as prompt to gemini-cli.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by mcoliver »

grogenaut wrote: post #64

I understand Google feels they need to compete in coding AI. The crazy thing to me is: - Gemini can't make me a calendar appointment between myself and another person for 30 minutes in the next week. Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert. I edit my docs in cline or Claude code as markdown and upload. - speaking of, I don't think they have a MCP for working wit…

Could not agree more. Trying to use Veo3 via genai/vertexai sdks has been full of dead ends, broken specs, and confusion. Good ole curl seems to work though.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by neuronexmachina »

gundmc wrote: post #51

This sounds like Gemini Code Assist rebranded under the successful Gemini CLI banner. I'm sure this was done to "consolidate" offerings and brands, but this is just way more confusing. CLI has a meaning, and this doesn't seem to have a CLI at all? Product looks cool, but the naming is just baffling

I think this would be API-based pricing, while Gemini Code Assist is flat-rate. I'm not sure what other differences there are, though.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by pmcf »

grogenaut wrote: post #64

I understand Google feels they need to compete in coding AI. The crazy thing to me is: - Gemini can't make me a calendar appointment between myself and another person for 30 minutes in the next week. Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert. I edit my docs in cline or Claude code as markdown and upload. - speaking of, I don't think they have a MCP for working wit…

I think Google doesn’t turn Gemini loose on docs the same reason Apple doesn’t turn AI loose on your phone. It’s just not reliable enough to let 99.99% of the world use it. Those of us on the bleeding edge have been fine tweaking and working with inconsistencies. If you put a lot of work in, you get a productivity boost. Think of the family member you are “tech support” for. (You know who you are) would you recommend that to them? Yeah. Me neither.
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