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Status: 1 Issue Found | Recommendation: Address before merge

Overview

Fix these issues in Kilo Cloud

Seems like it generally works:

This PR removes the Gemini CLI provider. It does not work well, and is not a Google supported use of Gemini CLI as well.

I don’t fully agree that removing the Gemini CLI provider is the right conclusion here.

Gemini CLI did work in previous KiloCode versions, so this looks more like a regression than an inherently broken integration. Most of the reported issues seem to be concentrated around tool / function calling, not basic text generation or the provider concept itself.

Instead of removing the provider entirely, I’d suggest:

keeping Gemini CLI support at its current (basic) level;

clearly documenting any limitations;

focusing fixes specifically on the tool invocation / response parsing issues.

“Not officially supported by Google” doesn’t necessarily mean it cannot be supported at all — many CLI-based integrations live in that gray area. Even minimal, best-effort support would be better than a hard removal, especially for users who already rely on it.

What happens when people have this provider selected and update? Can you make sure to test that they won't go into some kind of locked up state?

“Not officially supported by Google” doesn’t necessarily mean it cannot be supported at all — many CLI-based integrations live in that gray area. Even minimal, best-effort support would be better than a hard removal, especially for users who already rely on it.

@ltastr - we understand that this will impact some users, and hope that most will be able to move over to one of the other methods (Google AI Studio BYOK or Gemini provider) that uses a Google-supported integration mechanism.

I have validated that if you have a provider other than Gemini CLI (in my case anthropic) it will be preserved when you start the extension host.

When I had gemini cli set as my settings, then launched the extension host, it reverted to kilo gateway. So I think we are OK, this seems like a good fallback.

move over to one of the other methods (Google AI Studio BYOK or Gemini provider)

which both are not included in AI pro plan? need paid API key right?

which both are not included in AI pro plan? need paid API key right?

@tazztone - unfortunately there is not a Google supported way to integrate today with the AI plans. If one becomes available, we would add support. We do have official support for ChatGPT subscriptions, support BYOK for Z.AI plans among others, and now also allow anonymous access to free models.

Here is the current free model list:

well i use v4.145 and it works (for my purposes of creating commit messages and ask questions). so it seems there is no need for google to "support" it for it to work.
ig i will just not update kilo for now :)