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gemini-api
Call the Gemini API from the shell with Google's `gemini-api` CLI, when that binary is installed — text and reasoning, image generation and editing, text-to-speech, music, video, document/audio/video/YouTube analysis, transcription and captions, file uploads, and managed agents (Deep Research) run in the background. Use when the task needs a Gemini model or a second opinion from one, a generated image/voiceover/soundtrack/clip, an answer out of a PDF or recording, an SRT caption file, or a long-running research agent. Triggers: 'use gemini', 'ask gemini', 'gemini-api', 'generate an image', 'make a voiceover', 'transcribe this', 'analyze this PDF', 'deep research'. Not for writing application code against the Gemini SDK or Vertex AI.
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# Gemini API from the shell
`gemini-api` is Google's single-binary CLI for the Gemini Interactions API. Each
invocation does one thing and returns either text on stdout or a file path on disk.
Verified command details, output shapes, and gotchas: `references/cli.md`.
## Preflight (once per session, before the first call)
`gemini-api whoami` prints the config file, the credential source, and the active
defaults. If it reports no API key, stop and ask the user to set one — never guess at a
key or edit their config. The persistent form is `gemini-api configure --api-key "..."`,
which writes to the OS keychain; `GEMINI_API_KEY` in the environment also works.
