Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026
developers.googleblog.com279 points by primaprashant 19 hours ago
279 points by primaprashant 19 hours ago
How does anyone internally at Google justify these decisions?
Even if there are competing implementations, in terms of brand recognition, I feel like “Gemini” is more closely associated with Google than “Antigravity”. Why pick the more obscure option?!
Perhaps they felt the sentiment on Gemini CLI was beyond repair, but surely there must be some voice on the inside saying “developers will never adopt our products if we keep killing them”.
I saw someone in a different thread describe Google product/tool strategy as a: “monkey knife fight”
And tbh I can’t really argue with that.
Reminds me of the Microsoft days circa 2010 when Microsoft published half a dozen media players (Zune!), word processors, email clients, etc.
By unifying the billing and quota systems, as well as providing better integration, I presume
The Antigravity harness is by far better than the gemini-cli one. Antigravity also offers models other than Gemini as well. When you say Antigravity, you think of a platform whereas when you say Gemini you think of the model
It's great that gemini-cli is open-source, but that also comes with a bunch of ai-generated issues and pull-requests, which is sure to impede development
> Antigravity also offers models other than Gemini as well. When you say Antigravity, you think of a platform whereas when you say Gemini you think of the model.
I the other reasons you mentioned could be solved while keeping the Gemini name, but this is a fair point. I didn't realize they offered 3rd party models!
> When you say Antigravity, you think of a platform whereas when you say Gemini you think of the model
Yea I guess if their goal long-term is to be something more akin to Cursor that makes sense, but Anthropic seems to be doing just fine using "Claude" in their naming scheme.
> When you say Antigravity, you think of a platform
Absolutely not? When you say "Antigravity" then the first thing that comes to mind is "yet another IDE" and I have no desire in switching my IDE.
It's not an IDE, it's a way to run agents. In particular, the Antigravity CLI positioned as Gemini CLI's successor is a shell with superpowers, not something you would use for code development.
You proved the point. Gemini has been marketed better, such that even folks in the know confuse Antigravity (the IDE) with anything else attempting to be pushed.
In those rare occasion when I want to use Gemini I just type gemini on my terminal.
Gemini was on life support on my side. I barely get to use it due to its subpar performance in coding, which is to be honest the only use I have of it.
And now I read that they spent 4 to 5 months testing 3.5 internally. Let that sink in. By the time they release the world has moved on. I don’t know who makes decisions at Google regarding AI but it saddens me to see this happening. Google should be up there leading but they are lagging against everybody.
How can I justify dropping 100$ per month, for a coding agent that is half a year behind, knowing that Codex or Kimi is going to do much better?
Stock might be ripping but that’s about it.
On the other hand I quietly cheer every time they fumble even slightly, in their seemingly inexorable march to becoming our ultimate, terrifying, corporate overlords.
Yes. Every possible pain they have makes me happy when their other hand is slowly destroying Android. Let them suffer.
I get what you're saying about Gemini for coding and it's useful that you mention it.
I wonder though if Google isn't so worried about the viability of their coding AIs and have a longer term view than simply providing coding aids. This might also be indicated by their recent $40B investment in Anthropic, https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/google-to-invest-up-to-40-bi...
...Only time will tell!
I think google has another 'problem': Gemini needs to do a lot more than claude.
They use Gemini for personal assistent to all of their Gmail and co users/customers. They have Google Docs, they have GCP were gemini should support you too.
They also have a lot more languages to support too.
They optimize Gemini for A LOT more than 'just' coding. So its probably a balance act for them. And because they are that rich and have no issues on compute and brain, they can play the long game easily.
If they push their tpu further and continue their build out, they will be able to start training high quality topic optimized models in parallel while everyone else needs the same amount to just train one main model.
What is preventing them from making a coding dedicated model if that's the issue?
I disagree; gemini is their ai model brand, antigravity is their code harness.
Its much better branding than calling every single product "Co-Pilot (tm)".
Internal political wrangling and competition along with poor top-level leadership explain these sorts of bumbling moves. The same story that has always been at Google.
> developers will never adopt our products if we keep killing them
We all want this to be the case but it's never the case. It never stops to amuse me how developers of the world fall into the Google trap again and again and again despite knowing better.
Personally have been hurt a lot by the abandonment of Polymer and since then it would not occur to me to touch any Google development product because what's the point really?
I would wager your feelings conflict with their analysis (which they are probably quite good at, with all that practice)
As someone who worked there for a decade, I would wager instead that all that analysis at the top makes no difference when you're unable to execute because your internal politics are broken.
EDIT: ... also that the analysis at the "top" is mostly being made by people with the wrong incentives and motives, too.
> I would wager your feelings conflict with their analysis
How their target audience feels isn’t separate from “analysis” - it’s the input.
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
There's a comment from a Googler that there's a chance Antigravity will be open sourced.
theres a chance I will be the first multi trillionaire to have a platinum debut album in each of the music genres.
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.
The rest of out here watching usage and telemetry to decide where to invest, meanwhile, over at Google…
What if their telemetry shows very low usage? I've seen virtually no discussion of Gemini CLI online.
There's a fair amount of enterprise usage. It's a really good product, despite the Claude hype. Anthropic is a PITA to deal with, and it's slow as shit weekday morning Eastern time.
There are 13,700 forks of its repo on Github.
If anything, I suspect closing the source for their coding agent may have been part of the goal.
If the repo is already forked, what difference does it make if Google supports it or not? The community can just continue development if they so choose
google can kill your account for using an unsupported harness when/if they choose
Complete bs. Gemini models are on OpenRouter just like any other models.
But then you have to pay by the token instead of the subsidized subscription prices
Forks don't mean anything anymore, especially on an AI-related repo. 99% of them are automated.
The usual playbook is they rename it a few times first, then they kill it.
And then later re-use the name for another product which is almost but not entirely unlike the original.
Sometimes it becomes 11 different chat applications among the way.
It's technically a chat application. Except you're chatting with an LLM instead of friends and family.
Even thought there are people using, it doesn’t mean they see a future in it. Google is the best when it comes to analytics and trends. If they see a product is expected to fail, which in this case it was, they simply kill it and move on instead of wasting resources saving a sinking ship.
Of course, something could’ve been improved, but that’s just how they operate.
I could be completely wrong though
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.
> 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.
I am really curious to know about the people who are downvoting this. I really want to know why, genuinely.
Your take is cynical, but sensible in a massive org with dysfunctional culture that jades and burns out engineers until they only care about their own personal gains and everything else is secondary. I think people project their values in situations that don't have place for them and get upset
> I think people project their values in situations that don't have place for them and get upset
That is a very useful bit of wisdom that one can overlook easily, but once articulated can explain a fair bot behaviour.
Public companies operate for the benefit of shareholders.
Which is "Google" in this sense, the employees are just workers, Google is not a coop. Google operates for Google, or it's owners which are the shareholders. No?
Combining Gemini and Antigravit is probably good.
But that i pay for some 2tb storage and i'm a 'pro' user while not really a 'pro'user and that there is another 'pro' package makes all of that very weird. This is something they need to clean up
It's the same thing they continuously do with GCP: put internal needs first and put the customer last. Nobody at Google ever got fired for screwing over customers.
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?
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.
It seems that Google has those product Managers that work barely an hour a day and have zero idea about anything at all. Those in "Life in a day of XYX" sort of videos that were trendy at one point.
> or for people under a certain age
I've been waiting for the "Google decides kids shouldn't vibe code" headline over the Antigravity age verification shenanigans.
This is why people use Gemini on OpenRouter. Same model, don't have to deal with Google billing.
I had been using Antigravity for about 4 months now. I used Gemini Pro 3.1 heavily for small to medium size projects, alongside I used AWS Kiro and Claude Code. Then I use Angtigravity but instead of Gemini I installed Claude code extention which was working great till Today with the new update, Antigravity removed all the vscode extentions. Not sure even how git will work here. This antigravity update isn't an update but a completely new product. All the investments we have made in order set it down with our dev process, integration is gone, wasted. This is a very bad move but actually its the permanent state of Google, launch a product and a bunch of similar kind of products and then pull the rug.
With the current state of the AI companies and models, one should stay as far away as possible from vendor lock in. Use open and agnostic harnesses and processes.
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.
> - A SKILL.md system mirroring Anthropic's skills convention.
> - Subagents, an artifacts review workflow (slash commands), and conversation rewind.
Antigravity CLI, like Gemini CLI, is a copy of most of Claude Code. At least in Antigravity CLI they copied the better UI as well. The scope of copying includes support for definitions of Agents, Skills, Commands, Plugins, MCP and so on. In fact, for some time, the Gemini CLI "extensions" documentation referred directly to Claude Code marketplace repositories. An artifact of this is that for example CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR is made available to hooks, by Gemini CLI.
Adapting "if a product is free, you are the product":
If the agent won't tell you what it's programming is, it's not your agent.
Two fast reflections:
1. I personally really doubt you can stay competitive selling such low-agency products to agentic developers, who are used to having access to/ability to see & reform their agentic worlds.
2. Also impressed by the hubris of giving everyone a single month to make the transition! I'd love the Google Graveyard to keep track of how long between announcement and shut down products got; I expect Gemini CLI getting axed for Antigravity CLI with one month transition is close to a record.
I stopped using Google products due to their propensity for killing them off. I continue to be proven correct in my assertion that they do not care about their customers.
100%. I really wish that I could treat them as a valid option, but they continuously reaffirm the position that it is dangerous to rely on them for anything commercial.
I feel a strange sense of relief that Google’s models are currently not industry leading and I don’t need to worry about not using them.
>This account isn't eligible for Google Antigravity
And clicking on "Explore Google AI plans" takes me to...I kid you not...the storage settings page of google drive.
Genuinely can't tell wtf google even wants me to use. Vertex? Gemini? Antigravity? Antigravity 2? Agent platform? Google One? Gemini Enterprise? Google AI?
Don't they have a senior management team that can impose some coordination?
Sounds like they vibe coded that instead.
Google has such poor UX flows at times, it doesn’t surprise me.
Iflow and Qwen cli are gone too. They probably think the clis don't make much sense without pairing them with free use and free use has become very expensive.
Lots of people throwing shade at Gemini CLI in the comments. I'm not saying it's perfect, but I enjoy using it. I haven't tried antigravity at all yet. I hope it will be an experience that is somewhat close to agentic coding on the CLI. I hit other model providers from Pi agent, but I'd like to be able to take advantage of my Google AI subscription on the CLI.
I'm in the same boat. I've been using the Gemini CLI since late last year - it's the only reason I moved up to Ultra.
I guess it's time to move to something else with a business model that might survive a reorg.
Update: unsubscribed from Google Ultra, moving to Claude Max
Weird, I saw nobody "throwing shade", all complaining is very direct and simple: gemini-cli sucks but Google sucks even more but discontinuing it to relaunch it with another name a tool that still sucks.
As luck would have it, I tried Antigravity for the first time a few days ago.
It was a complete buggy mess - at one point I asked Gemini why it could not use the network despite having network access enabled in the sandbox settings, and it told me that although it had network access, it couldn't use mdnsresponder while running with the built-in sandbox. Like, how well thought out, network access without DNS.
After burning through about 80% of my 5-hour window of credits, I finally just went sandboxless to get the thing running. It hit the limit pretty quickly. I waited until the 5 hour limit was up, and found the 5 hour window had morphed into a one week window, still drained of credits.
I thought at least I can keep on using Gemini CLI until Google figures out this Antigravity thing. Oh well.
My experience with any built in sandboxing for these command line tools has been awful.
What I've done instead is built a script to create a disposable virtual machine (using incus to manage it).
And then I just run the CLI inside the virtual machine and delete the vm at the end of each day.
I built a pi extension. Pi repo has an example extension that uses anthropics sandbox which is a total buggy mess. (To be clear, that's anthropics sandbox itself, not the pi extension wrapper which is fine)
I dug into it a little bit to see about improving things there, but decided to write a minimal version that better suited my needs instead.
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...
Confirmed. It's still a bad idea to use it. If you hit your quota, it doesn't refill for a week.
Even if they adopted Claude over Gemini they'd probably still try to nickel and dime customers by providing an increasingly degraded experience. The problem isn't Gemini itself, it's all the throttling, quantization and limit reductions that Google does to it.
Google foeling more like Hooli these days.
"need to install a complete desktop app to get access to our new CLI"
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
This is why most devs I know have stopped building anything serious on top of Googles AI tools. You cant build a workflow around something that gets renamed or killed every 6 months. Anthropic and OpenAI atleast understand that developer trust requires stability, Google still treats their AI devtools like consumer products. Ship it, rebrand it, kill it.
Tried making an MCP server with Antigravity CLI. Antigravity CLI suffers from an identity crisis caused by a tool/ecosystem change: "I am unsure if I should be reading Gemini documentation, Gemini CLI documentation, Antigravity documentation or Antigravity CLI documentation". It couldn't really correctly answer how I should be registering the MCP server in its own system until I googled it.
This is a double edged sword for me, I've dabbled with the Antigravity CLI and it is better but I got a lot of LLM use out of google's chaotic decentralized quotas.
gemini-cli had it's own quota, antigravity had it's own quota, and ai studio had it's own free tier quota and I managed to make use of all of them super cheaply.
Now they're finally unifying everything and cutting down, which is less of a cognitive load to keep track of quotas but also fewer benefits
Gemini CLI was my late entry into AI-assisted work.
It was included in my employers workspace subscription so I tried it out last june, and that's how I finally understood the power of AI.
Then they announced that it was no longer included in our license and I bought my own Claude license instead, the employer went with another AI company.
So your loss Google.
I was working on a product that relies on ACP (agent client protocol). Gemini CLI supports ACP natively although it is missing some protocols. But I found that Antigravity CLI (agy) lacks ACP support! It's a bad sign for me.
Looks like Antigravity cli is moving to weekly limits whereas Gemini cli was daily. Ouch
Stop working? It never even started working for me, I tried it and always just got errors or lack of quota.
So it gains feature-parity with the Gemini vscode extension, which has stopped working the day they released it.
It’s a good decision. If an IDE can do everything that a CLI does and it surely can, then I fail to see the point of a CLI. It’s not like an IDE can’t emulate everything a CLI does but better, faster, and more interactive. It’s not like one does not need to read code either. Besides, what about session management? What about configuring agents, especially for multi-agent orchestration? The list can go on. The point is, IDE or GUI in general gives us optionality. Then, what’s wrong with that?
One may argue that Google’s Antigravity is clunky or cluttered or something worse, but that’s confusing organizational capability with principles.
Well, there is no IDE in antigravity 2.0
Ouch! I assumed too early
Which makes this part quite funny
"One may argue that Google’s Antigravity is clunky or cluttered or something worse, but that’s confusing organizational capability with principles"
The amount of free and biased good will Google gets here in HN is weird.
I read through the docs. There is no mention of whether programmatic usage or Agent Client Protocol will continue be supported in Antigravity CLI.
People are saying it doesn't have ACP at all. We don't know if that's an intentional decision or a temporary gap.
Not really using this product, but every time things like this happens, my trust in Google just goes further down even if I thought it wasn't possible. I don't get how companies even dare to rely on anything made by Google.
Google Takeout doesn't work properly for exporting Gemini chats.
Antigravity locks your chats locally behind .pb files.
Nothing to export your very own data.
OpenAI is best at personal data export. Claude has something at least, despite being quirky. Yet, Google looks very purpose-built to not give anything back.
> Gemini CLI is an open-source AI agent
This is not good for open-source. Claude is not open-source, copilot-cli is not and antigravity-cli isn't either.
Apparently the major players decide to keep the secret agent source, well, secret.
Anyone ever understand how the Gemini cli could be so bad even though Gemini 3 was so good?
Google and Azure are masters in shitshow when it comes to AI products. Create/rename/abandon at god speed, giving more reason to never use them for anything serious.
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?
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
They products are pretty messy too. Veo, Gemini Omni Flash, Spark, Flow, Duo .... A lot of confusing and competing product lines.
As much as I like Gemini CLI and don’t like them shutting it down, I think it’s good some of the offerings are getting unified. There was too much fragmentation in the google offering and this is making it a tiny bit better.
They used to have Antigravity and Gemini CLI.
Now they have Antigravity IDE, Antigravity 2, and Antigravity CLI.
What's the big deal?
https://antigravity.google/product/antigravity-cli
They just revamped Gemini CLI. Plus it gets the harness of Antigravity, seems like a straight up upgrade to me?
Unrelated, but does anyone know of a successful tech product name with five or more syllables? Antigravity CLI is a mouthful.
And Antigravity CLI starts working from today, interesting
That sucks I guess I won’t be using any Google llms anymore
AFAICT it's practically a name-change. Why can't they alias, does it for some reason have an API difference?
Do people use antigravity? In my team, there is one guy but everyone else is on Claude code/GHCP
Welcome to the Google graveyard, Gemini CLI.
Not that it will be missed much. Using it was the worst experience out of any harness.
agy cli is a disaster and half baked product. It wont even resize itself when i maximize terminal.
Would be very difficult keeping it going knowing you will be laid off.
They killed a gaming cloud this is just a CLI.
That is one reason I avoid Flutter at all costs despite other reasons.
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.
FWIW, centralising on a single harness in Antigravity seems like a great idea.
Sad. I liked Gemini CLI. I used it a lot and occasionally use it these days. I've never tried Antigravity though.
sometimes I feel we need to hire someone just to catch up with google breaking changes.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 305+1 [1] times, shame on me.
People use the Gemini CLI? What poor souls...
I use it for disposable tasks as it's included in my Pro plan and why not
This is so confusing. So what happens to Gemini Code Assist plans?
What do the Antigravity quotas mean per plan?
Classic google. Torch name recognition and goodwill associated with it for something new. http://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravit...
Say goodbye to metered usage via API keys you control, and hello to opaque pricing and usage limits.
Gemini CLI is too slow to use.
Anyway, one more @ Google Graveyard: https://killedbygoogle.com/
I haven't noticed the CLI itself being slow, but the Gemini model responses can be slow.
just ... use ... opencode ...
#CLI
I mean, idk why anyone is surprised. Was obvious goog was slow playing their harness
we never learn agy seems to be garbage
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Crap! I was using this to manage my hledger files and it did a decent job.
Well, I tried to give Antigravity a go.
First prompt thought for about 30 seconds, and after the fifth or sixth tool call:
"Our servers are experiencing high traffic right now, please try again in a minute."
Sigh...
here we go again: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...
which is mainly this part on googles thinking:
> Drop whatever you are doing because it’s not important. What is important is OUR time. It’s costing us time and money to support our shit, and we’re tired of it, so we’re not going to support it anymore. So drop your fucking plans and go start digging through our shitty documentation, begging for scraps on forums, and oh by the way, our new shit is COMPLETELY different from the old shit, because well, we fucked that design up pretty bad, heh, but hey, that’s YOUR problem, not our problem.
Good riddance. Gemini CLI was hot garbage.
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Gemini CLI is so incomprehensibly bad. I can only hope dedicated focus on agy will be the difference maker. It'd be nice to actually be able to integrate Gemini models into my workflows because they offer genuinely unique approaches to problems that complement Claude/Codex really well.
I have been a happy user of Gemini CLI.
What makes it "incomprehensibly bad." in your opinion?