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Subagents have arrived in Gemini CLI- Google Developers Blog

Subagents have arrived in Gemini CLI- Google Developers Blog

4/15/2026 · Jack Wotherspoon, Abhi Patel

What this post added

Introduced subagents to Gemini CLI, allowing for delegation of complex tasks to specialized agents with isolated context windows, system instructions, and tools. Enabled custom subagent creation via Markdown files and bundling as extensions. Introduced parallel execution of subagents. Added built-in subagents: generalist, cli_help, and codebase_investigator. Introduced explicit task delegation using the @agent syntax.

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