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Beyond the terminal: Gemini CLI comes to Zed- Google Developers Blog

Beyond the terminal: Gemini CLI comes to Zed- Google Developers Blog

8/27/2025 · Ryan J. Salva

What this post added

This post announces the integration of Gemini CLI into the Zed code editor. It highlights how Gemini CLI's extensibility through standards like MCP, markdown-based instructions, and custom extensions has led to rapid community adoption. The integration with Zed allows for in-place code generation and refactoring, instant code explanations, and natural language chat within the editor's terminal. Key features of this new workflow include real-time agent execution tracking, a pull-request-like review interface for proposed changes, seamless handoffs back to the editor, and the ability to provide context from URLs.

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