Is Gemini CLI Still Maintained? Live GitHub Status
On GitHub, the project describes itself as: “An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.”
Short answer: Yes, but development has slowed. Health score 76/100. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
What the numbers say
Gemini CLI’s main branch received 202 commits in the last 91 days, against 1,522 in the same 91 days a year earlier (−87%). That is less than half of last year’s pace, which the index labels “slowing down”. It has 107,440 stars on GitHub.
Gemini CLI usage: downloads and installs
@google/gemini-cliTrend: the monthly download count is stored once a day, starting 17 Oct 2026. A chart appears here after a week of readings.
Download and pull counts include automated installs from CI pipelines, containers and mirrors, so they show how widely the software is pulled, not how many people use it. Numbers from different registries are not comparable with each other. Sources: npm download statistics via ecosyste.ms, read 18 Oct 2026, 18:04 UTC.
Gemini CLI security practices and adoption
Used by other projects
deps.dev: npm packages that depend on @google/gemini-cli 0.64.0
- Indirect dependents0
- All dependents5
- Registrynpm
Latest release
GitHub: files attached to the latest release and how often they were downloaded
- Versionv0.64.0
- Published13 Oct 2026
- Downloads of its 3 files995
- Contributors443
Scorecard checks security practices such as code review, branch protection and pinned dependencies; it does not find bugs, and a low score does not mean the software is unsafe. Dependents and download counts show reach, not quality. Sources: deps.dev, GitHub, read 18 Oct 2026, 18:34 UTC.
Health score breakdown
| Part | Points | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Activity | 29.1 / 35 | 202 commits in the last 91 days (full marks at 600) |
| Trend | 2.7 / 20 | 13% of last year’s pace (full marks at 100%) |
| Recency | 15.0 / 15 | last commit 2 days ago |
| Releases | 10.0 / 10 | latest GitHub release 5 days ago |
| Community | 18.8 / 20 | 212 pull requests merged in the last 91 days (full marks at 300) |
Open issues and pull requests: 747. The score summarises maintenance signals only, not quality or security. How the score works
Gemini CLI: common questions
Is Gemini CLI still maintained?
Yes, but development has slowed. As of 18 October 2026, Gemini CLI received 202 commits in the last 91 days, less than half of its pace a year earlier; the latest commit is from 16 October 2026. Its health score is 76 out of 100.
What is the latest Gemini CLI release?
The latest GitHub release of Gemini CLI is v0.64.0, published on 13 October 2026.
How many people contribute to Gemini CLI?
GitHub lists 443 contributors for Gemini CLI. 212 pull requests were merged in the last 91 days.
What licence does Gemini CLI use?
GitHub identifies the Gemini CLI licence as Apache-2.0. Read the licence file before commercial use.
How many times is Gemini CLI downloaded?
The @google/gemini-cli package on npm was downloaded 1,759,782 times in the last month, according to ecosyste.ms (checked 18 October 2026). The count includes automated installs from CI pipelines and mirrors, so it is not a count of users.
How is the health score calculated?
It adds five parts from public GitHub data: commit activity over 91 days (35 points), the trend against the same period last year (20), how recent the last commit is (15), how recent the last release is (10) and merged pull requests (20). Archived projects score 0; a maintenance notice caps the score at 25. It measures maintenance signals only, not code quality or security.
Visitor rating
Have you used Gemini CLI? Rate it:
Ratings come from visitors, not from EvalAITools, and are not part of the health status above. One rating per visitor per tool every 30 days.
Daily snapshots
| Date (UTC) | Stars | Commits, last 91 days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Oct 2026 | 107,426 | 202 | Slowing down |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 107,412 | 202 | Slowing down |
One snapshot is stored per day, starting 16 October 2026. No status change has been recorded for Gemini CLI since then.
Other ai coding tools
| Tool | Status | Stars | Commits (91d) | vs last year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| opencode | Active | 217k | 4,846 | +176% |
| OpenAI Codex CLI | Active | 130k | 3,988 | +264% |
| Gemini CLI | Slowing down | 107k | 202 | −87% |
| Cline | Active | 70.5k | 1,057 | +15% |
| Goose | Active | 55.4k | 751 | −8% |
| GPT Engineer | Archived | 55.0k | 0 | — |
| Aider | No recent commits | 49.6k | 0 | −100% |
| Continue | Maintenance mode | 36.2k | 3 | −100% |
| Tabby | No recent commits | 33.9k | 0 | −100% |
| GPT Pilot | Maintenance mode | 33.7k | 0 | −100% |
| Kilo Code | Active | 27.7k | 6,533 | +245% |
| Roo Code | Archived | 24.3k | 0 | −100% |
| SWE-agent | No recent commits | 20.6k | 0 | −100% |
| bolt.new | No recent commits | 16.6k | 0 | — |
Compare
Status badge
Show Gemini CLI’s live maintenance status in a README. The badge updates with this page and links back to it.
[](https://evalaitools.com/tools/gemini-cli/)Read next
How this is measured: commits on the repository’s default branch counted through the GitHub API, the last 91 days against the same 91 days a year earlier; archived flag and licence from the repository; README checked daily for maintenance notices. Commit counts measure activity, not quality, and we have not tested this tool ourselves for this page.