Key highlights for week of 10/27/2025 - v0.12.0

[NTaylorMullen]

Here is Gemini CLI’s October 27th weekly update for v0.12.0

Key Highlights:

• 🎉 New Partner Extensions:
  • 🤗 Hugging Face extension: Access the Hugging Face hub. (gif)
    gemini extensions install https://github.com/huggingface/hf-mcp-server
  • Monday.com extension: Analyze your sprints, update your task boards, etc. (gif)
    gemini extensions install https://github.com/mondaycom/mcp
  • Data Commons extension: Query public datasets or ground responses on data from Data Commons (gif).
    gemini extensions install https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/datacommons
• Model Selection: Choose the Gemini model for your session with /model. (pic, pr by @abhipatel12)
• Model Routing: Gemini CLI will now intelligently pick the best model for the task. Simple queries will be sent to Flash while complex analytical or creative tasks will still use the power of Pro. This ensures your quota will last for a longer period of time. You can always opt-out of this via /model. (pr by @abhipatel12)
  • Discussion: 🚀 Feature Launch: Intelligent Model Routing arrives in v0.11.2 #12375
• Codebase Investigator Subagent: We now have a new built-in subagent that will explore your workspace and resolve relevant information to improve overall performance. (pr by @abhipatel12, pr by @silviojr)
  • Enable, disable, or limit turns in /settings, plus advanced configs in settings.json (pic, pr by @silviojr)
• Explore Extension: Users can now open the extensions page in their default browser directly from the CLI using the /extensions explore command. (pr by @JayadityaGit)
• Configurable Compression: Users can modify the compression threshold in /settings. The default has been made more proactive (pr by @scidomino).
• API Key Authentication: Users can now securely enter and store their Gemini API key via a new dialog, eliminating the need for environment variables and repeated entry. (pr by @galz10)
• Sequential Approval: Users can now approve multiple tool calls sequentially during execution. (pr by @joshualitt)
• Small features, Polish, Reliability & Bug Fixes: A large amount of changes, smaller features, UI updates, reliability and bug fixes + general polish made it in this week!