Key highlights for week of 7/21/2025

[NTaylorMullen]

• Custom Slash Commands: Gemini CLI now has a powerful slash command foundation that enables you to create and share your own /<command>s via MCP and local .toml files (pr by @abhipatel12). Make them EPIC (🎉 blog overview 🎉 )!
• MCP Support:
  • 🧩MCP Commands: Servers that support the standard list/prompt will have their prompts turned into slash commands (docs, pr by @haroldmciver-go and @chrstnb)
  • 🔐OAuth: Authenticate with your MCP servers via /mcp auth (prs by @emeryray2002 and @cornmander)
  • /mcp refresh: Refresh your MCP servers to ease iteration (pr by @rmedranollamas)
• Vim Mode: Activate with /vim and use vim keybindings (gif, pr by @sijieamoy)
• Better Diffs: Files are now colorized when diffed (pic, pr by @miguelsolorio)
• Login with Workspace Account: We’ve recently resolved a number of issues around workspace account logins. If you were struggling to login before, try again!
• /copy: Copy the last model output (gif, pr by @devpool007)
• Improved Headless Auth
  • Gemini Code Assist CI/CD Auth: CI/CD pipelines can now utilize GCA access tokens for authentication (pr by @galz10)
  • Login with Google + Vertex Auth: Headless invocations can now utilize all interactive auth method (pr by @jerop)
• GeMiNi.mD: GEMINI.md files are now case insensitive (pr by @olk)
• Gemini CLI Aware Shells: Shell commands can now react to Gemini CLI invocation. They are now invoked with GEMINI_CLI=1 (gif, pr by @taeold)
• Telemetry Output: Redirect telemetry output to a file using the --telemetry-outfile flag when using local telemetry target (pr by @smhendrickson)
• .geminiignore: Now fully supported to exclude files from your AI context (docs, pr by @psinha40898)
• System Settings Override: GEMINI_CONFIG_PATH to specify a custom path for system settings (pr by @chrstnb).
• Small features, Polish, Reliability & Bug Fixes: A large amount changes, smaller features, UI updates, reliability and bug fixes + general polish made it in this week!

Release: v0.1.15