What is research-cli?

A research extension that uses Google's Gemini Interactions API to run a deep-research model. An API is a way for software to request work from another service.

It is for carrying out deep research through Gemini, using a configured API key and research model.

It provides a dedicated research workflow instead of requiring the coding agent to gather and combine all source material itself.

research-cli — Plugin for Gemini CLI by rmedranollamas

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rmedranollamas/research-cli

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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README.md

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Your own site

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When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-cli scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

gemini-extension.json · 18 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "research-cli",
  "version": "0.3.2",
  "description": "Deep Research extension using Gemini v1alpha Interactions API",
  "settings": [
    {
      "name": "Gemini API Key",
      "description": "API Key with v1alpha/Interactions access",
      "envVar": "RESEARCH_GEMINI_API_KEY"
    },
    {
      "name": "Research Model",
      "description": "The Gemini Deep Research agent ID to use (default: deep-research-preview-04-2026; max: deep-research-max-preview-04-2026)",
      "envVar": "RESEARCH_MODEL"
    }
  ]
}

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

7d ago First seen · 18 lines scan A ba5396069e23

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research-cli is a plugin published in the GitHub repository rmedranollamas/research-cli (20 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-07.

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Getting it into your agent

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Grade A, and why

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What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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