GitHub - addyosmani/gemini-cli-tips: Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks

kept by eddie nov 27, 25

Gemini CLI offers roughly 30 pro-tips for agentic coding, covering persistent context, custom commands, MCP extensibility, memory, and checkpointing for safe development workflows.

GitHub - JeanMeijer/slopmeter: CLI tool to show off how many tokens you use
Slopmeter is a CLI tool that generates usage heatmaps and token-count stats for six AI coding assistants over the past year.
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Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration — Ankur Sethi's Internet Website
Setting up a paid Gemini API key requires navigating Google's confusing product names and a convoluted billing process, unlike Anthropic's and OpenAI's simpler systems.
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Introducing MCP CLI: A way to call MCP Servers Efficiently
mcp-cli reduces MCP-related token usage by 99% through dynamic discovery, letting AI agents load only needed tool definitions instead of all upfront.
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MCP is dead. Long live the CLI
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) offers no real benefit over command-line interfaces (CLIs), which are more composable, debuggable, and reliable for LLM tool use.
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