What Gemini CLI loads
GEMINI.md (or names from context.fileName) at the root and ancestors at start, subdirectory files just in time, all concatenated; @imports supported.
Modelled from https://geminicli.com/docs/cli/gemini-md/, checked 2026-10-03. Status: beta.
Known gaps
- Global ~/.gemini/GEMINI.md is outside the repository and not shown unless --machine is used.
- The docs do not state an import depth limit; this view stops after 5 hops.
See it for your repository
Which files Gemini CLI loads for a given file, in precedence order, with token estimates:
npx threadctx explain src/index.ts --tool gemini
Where Gemini CLI and the other agents disagree about the same directory:
npx threadctx diff