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10 alternatives to gemini-cli

google-gemini/gemini-cli — An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal. (108,564 stars, Apache-2.0, ui, ai, auth).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 1,254 licence-cleared components from google-gemini/gemini-cli itself.

#RepoScoreLicenceStars
1google-antigravity/antigravity-sdk-python5.5Apache-2.03,814
2fengshao1227/ccg-workflow3.7MIT5,942
3modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk7.5Apache-2.013,641
4u14app/deep-research5.0MIT4,693
5a-ghorbani/pocketpal-ai6.2MIT8,762
6modelcontextprotocol/php-sdk8.1Apache-2.01,642
7modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk6.7MIT24,652
8modelcontextprotocol/java-sdk7.0MIT3,735
9beehiveinnovations/pal-mcp-server4.6Apache-2.011,801
10wjz-p/gemini-skill2.3MIT832

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