Coding is something that AI models have proven very useful for, but as Google shifts focus to its Antigravity tools, the company is shutting down Gemini Code Assist tools for consumer-level use.
Gemini Code Assist and Gemini CLI are tools Google built out to help developers identify problems in their code. As Google explains on the Gemini CLI website:
Query and edit large codebases, generate apps from images or PDFs, and automate complex workflows—all from your terminal with Gemini 3.
But Google is shifting priorities here to better suit the needs of its users. In a recent blog post, Google explained that Gemini CLI and Code Assist for consumer-level use would shut down in a transition over to Antigravity CLI, a tool that Google says would be faster, offer multiple asynchronous workflows, and share its architecture with the Antigravity 2.0 desktop app.
Gemini CLI proved the terminal could be an incredible interface for agentic tasks, but your needs shifted. You now require multiple agents communicating with each other to split up the work and solve complex problems. This means your terminal tools need to share a unified backend with the rest of your workflow.
