I think that this feature might have taken Gemini CLI from just Temu Claude Code with higher usage limits, to actually competitive as a tool. It'll be interesting to see how well this actually works in practice.
I tend to agree but there are a few scenarios where I really want it to work. Debuggers in particular seem hard to get right for the current agents. I’ve not been able to get the various MCP servers I’ve tried to work, I’ve struck out using the debug adapter protocol from agent-authored python. The best results I’ve gotten are from prompting it to run the debugger under screen, but it takes many tool calls to iterate IME. I’m curious to see how gemini cli works for that use case with this feature.
I would love to use gdb through an agent instead of directly. I spend so much time looking up commands and I sometimes skip things because I get impatient stepping over the next thing