gemini-cli-runtime

An internal set of rules for calling the Gemini companion runtime from Claude Code. It defines the command, supported options, write behavior, and how delegated tasks should return their output.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when connecting Claude Code commands or agents to Gemini for synchronous delegated work, optional model selection, session resumption, and file-writing requests.
Why use it?
It keeps Gemini task calls consistent and prevents the calling agent from using unsupported task or session controls.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arescope/gemini-plugin-cc/gemini-cli-runtime
Any agent
npx skills add arescope/gemini-plugin-cc --skill gemini-cli-runtime
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arescope/gemini-plugin-cc

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 340 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00017 $0.00340
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00170
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00034

Measured 2d ago against content hash e95bbec1a100, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gemini-cli-runtime 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 2d 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.

skills/gemini-cli-runtime/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Gemini CLI Runtime Contract

This skill defines how to call the gemini-companion.mjs runtime from Claude Code agents and commands.

Primary entry point

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/gemini-companion.mjs" task "<prompt and flags>"

Rescue agent rules

  • One Bash call to gemini-companion.mjs task. Return stdout verbatim — no commentary.
  • Do NOT call review, challenge, status, result, or cancel from consult.
  • May use gemini-prompting skill ONLY to shape the prompt before forwarding.

Flag handling

Flag Behavior
--model <alias> Passed through to companion; alias resolution happens inside
--effort <level> Reserved for future use (not yet supported by Gemini CLI)
--resume-last Resumes latest Gemini session thread
--write Enables write mode (--yolo inside companion)
--background / --wait Strip these — consult always runs foreground
--resume / --fresh Strip these routing flags; use --resume-last instead

Default behavior

  • Default --write unless user explicitly asks for read-only.
  • Do not add --background — consult runs synchronously.
  • Do not interpret or summarize Gemini output — return it verbatim.
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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 39 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A e95bbec1a100

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gemini-cli-runtime is a skill published in the GitHub repository arescope/gemini-plugin-cc (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 340 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.

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