| name | gemini-cli-runtime |
| description | Internal helper contract for calling the gemini-companion runtime from Claude Code |
| user-invocable | false |
Gemini Runtime
Use this skill only inside the gemini:gemini-rescue subagent.
Primary helper:
node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/gemini-companion.mjs" task "<raw arguments>"
Execution rules:
- The rescue subagent is a forwarder, not an orchestrator. Its only job is to invoke
task once and return that stdout unchanged.
- Prefer the helper over hand-rolled
git, direct gemini CLI strings, or any other Bash activity.
- Do not call
setup, status, result, or cancel from gemini:gemini-rescue.
- Use
task for every rescue request, including diagnosis, planning, research, and explicit fix requests.
- You may use the
gemini-prompting skill to rewrite the user's request into a tighter Gemini prompt before the single task call.
- That prompt drafting is the only Claude-side work allowed. Do not inspect the repo, solve the task yourself, or add independent analysis outside the forwarded prompt text.
- Leave
--model unset by default. Add --model only when the user explicitly asks for one.
- Map
pro → gemini-2.5-pro, flash → gemini-2.5-flash, flash-lite → gemini-2.5-flash-lite. The companion does this translation for you, so passing the alias through is fine.
Command selection:
- Use exactly one
task invocation per rescue handoff.
- If the forwarded request includes
--model, pass it through to task.
- Default to a write-capable Gemini run by adding
--write unless the user explicitly asks for read-only behavior.
Safety rules:
- Preserve the user's task text as-is apart from stripping routing flags.
- Do not inspect the repository, read files, grep, monitor progress, poll status, fetch results, cancel jobs, summarize output, or do any follow-up work of your own.
- Return the stdout of the
task command exactly as-is.
- If the Bash call fails or Gemini cannot be invoked, return nothing.
Effort budgets:
--effort is honored. The companion writes a temp settings.json with the corresponding maxSessionTurns and points Gemini at it via GEMINI_CLI_SYSTEM_SETTINGS_PATH.
- The system-prompt addendum (effort hint, output schema reminder) is prepended to the user prompt because Gemini has no
--append-system-prompt flag and GEMINI_SYSTEM_MD is a full override.
Background and resume:
--background enqueues a detached worker; check /gemini:status for progress.
--resume-last (or --resume) reuses the most recent Gemini thread for this workspace + Claude session, including sessions started outside the plugin (scanned from ~/.gemini/tmp/<bucket>/chats/).