Beyond the terminal: Gemini CLI comes to Zed- Google Developers Blog
Aug 27, 2025Ryan J. Salva

Summary
This post announces the integration of Gemini CLI with the Zed code editor. It highlights how this integration brings AI capabilities directly into the editor, enabling features like in-place code generation/refactoring, instant code explanations, and natural language chat within the terminal. The collaboration emphasizes a new workflow for interacting with AI agents, including real-time progress following, pull-request-style code review, seamless context switching, and the ability to provide external context (URLs) to the agent. The post also mentions the extensibility of Gemini CLI through MCP, markdown-based instructions, custom extensions, and tools.
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