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v0.30.0-nightly.20260212.099aa9621

Gemini CLI
5 features6 fixes4 improvementscliextensionsmcptools

Summary

This release focuses heavily on enhancing Plan Mode by allowing skill enablement and validating policy overrides. Key updates include migrating internal models to Gemini 3 and deprecating older tool configuration flags in favor of the new policy engine. Several bugs related to selection mode exiting and environment variable population have also been resolved.

New Features

  • Introduced documentation and validation for Plan Mode policy overrides.
  • Enabled skills to be activated within Plan Mode.
  • Updated internal utility models to use Gemini 3.
  • Added a value-resolver for authenticating credential resolution.
  • Deprecated the use of --allowed-tools and excludeTools flags in favor of the new policy engine.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where pressing any key would exit select mode.
  • Resolved double rendering issues in shpool and addressed VS Code lint warnings.
  • Fixed F12 behavior to only open the drawer if the browser fails to open.
  • Ensured that the stdio MCP server execution correctly populates the GEMINI_CLI=1 environment variable.
  • Improved headless mode detection for flags and query arguments.
  • Fixed an issue where sub-agents were not being registered when tools.allowed was set.

Improvements

  • Cached the CLI version during sessions to ensure consistency.
  • Updated the prompt and grep tool definition to limit context size.
  • Reverted an unintended exposure of credentials.
  • Improved maintainer detection for automated PR actions.

Related Documentation

Gemini CLI Documentation