Gemini CLI With CBorg

1. Install Gemini CLI

For Mac users with Homebrew

brew install gemini-cli

Using NPM

npm install -g @google/gemini-cli

2. Authentication via CBorg: Set the following variables in your environment:

**If you previously authenticated using another method, switch authentication back to “Gemini API Key” using the /auth command.

export GEMINI_API_KEY=$CBORG_API_KEY
export GOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL="https://api.cborg.lbl.gov"

3. Restart your shell and verify that the environment variables are now present.

env | grep GEMINI

4. Now start Gemini CLI in your project directory

cd my-project
gemini

Note: Gemini CLI only works with Gemini models (Current default Gemini 2.5 Pro / Gemini 2.5 Flash)

Note: It is strongly recommended to use version control (e.g. Git) with Gemini CLI projects.