Tech Desk 
Oct 09, 2025
Google has officially launched a new feature for its Gemini CLI, allowing outside developers and companies to integrate their tools directly into the AI system. The feature, called Gemini CLI Extensions, opens the door for third-party integrations, starting with Figma, Stripe, and other tech partners.
This announcement comes just days after OpenAI launched app integrations inside ChatGPT, highlighting the growing competition in building out an open AI ecosystem.
However, in distinction, Google will maintain complete open-source access to emerge and develop its own Gemini CLI extensions, or there are no tightly curated extensions, as this process is entirely free to build and publish on GitHub, to third-party integrations to Google Gemini, in comparison.
“That open ecosystem is vital to us,” said Google Senior Staff Engineer Taylor Mullen in an interview with TechCrunch. “Everything we’re doing is grounded in a fair ecosystem that anyone can participate in.”
The earliest extension available connects Gemini CLI to Google’s own Nanobanana image generator so developers can generate images directly from the command line. It was posted quietly to GitHub last week, and the community has already adopted it.
Gemini CLI was launched in June 2025 and quickly grew to more than one million users, most of them software developers using the tool to test, debug, and manage projects. The new extensions are intended to make Gemini CLI even more effective for developers building workflows driven by AI, according to Google's Senior Director, Product Management, Ryan J. Salva.
