GLLM

Generate Terminal Commands from Natural Language with Gemini

Installation

• global install using uv

uv tool install gllm-cli

Configuration

GLLM requires a Google Google API key. You can set it up in two ways:

1. provided by --key option

   gllm --key=YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY your prompt

2. Set it as an environment variable:

   export GEMINI_API_KEY=your-api-key-here

Usage

After installation, you can use the gllm command directly from your terminal:

# Basic usage
gllm list all files in the current directory

# Use a different model, default to `gemini-2.5-flash`
gllm --model gemini-2.5-pro show disk usage

# Customize the system prompt
gllm --system-prompt "Generate PowerShell commands" list files in the current directory

Options

• --model: Gemini model to use (default: gemini-2.5-flash)
• --system-prompt: System prompt for the LLM
• --key: your gemini api key

Questions

• Github issue
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