Status update

Gemini CLI: memory imports, clipboard, and UI fixes

September 4, 2026 · 4 min read · Niladri Das, external contributor

Tags: core, cli-ui, ci

Over the past year I contributed 24 issues and PRs to google-gemini/gemini-cli as @bniladridas. Three landed upstream; the rest built the infrastructure and evidence around them. This post lays out where each area stands, with links.

Memory `@` imports: 3 merged

#2230: modular GEMINI.md @file.md imports.
#2978: CLAUDE.md compatibility: flat import format, marked-based code detection, path validation. Review discussion in this comment.
#4098 (mentioned): absolute-path imports outside basePath.

Try the flat mode locally:

processImports(content, basePath, debug, state, projectRoot, 'flat')

Clipboard image paste: 12 PRs, unmerged

The largest track, aimed at #5316: core utilities (#12986), test helpers and e2e (#12987), the five-chunk series #11420 → #11424 (core, testing infra, screenshots, UI integration, e2e + docs), plus #7831, #7876, #8557, #10136, #15380. Closed unmerged; it needs rebasing against the current InputPrompt.

CLI UI: 1 merged fix, 2 reports

#13374 (merged, closes #13373): header ASCII art falls back to the theme accent color instead of plain text when gradients are unavailable.
#16147: missing buildSegmentsForVisualSlice export breaking the build.
#9602: useShellHistory test gaps.

CI: hosted runners

#16413 and #16414 (closed unmerged): Linux hosted-runner experiments.

What's next

Rebase the clipboard track onto current main.
Settle the flat-as-default question for CLAUDE.md-origin files.
Run the LLM-quality eval: does flat-vs-tree actually change task success?