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Bind Gemini CLI via adapter

Gemini's MCP support is experimental and the protocol surface moves week-to-week. Our adapter wraps the transport + auth so the same tier-gated Chronicle tools work from a Gemini session. Claude Code remains the primary dev binding.

Adapter pending. The @finaegis/chronicle-gemini-adapter package publishes with chronicle-api’s Track H3. The snippets below reflect the intended shape — the npx command will fail today with 404 on npm. This page becomes copy-paste-valid the moment the adapter ships.

Why an adapter, not MCP direct?

Gemini CLI ships with an MCP implementation but the transport surface is still stabilizing (stdio vs. SSE vs. streamable-HTTP has churned across releases). The adapter pins the known-good combination and handles reauth + token rotation without you re-running gemini config mcp add.

Framing: Claude Code is primary. Gemini is supported via adapter because developer reach is wider with both. Capability parity is near-total — the two surfaces see the same tier-gated tools.

1. Install + configure

sh
# 1. Install the Gemini adapter (Track H3 — pending npm publish)
npx -y @finaegis/chronicle-gemini-adapter install

# 2. Configure the MCP entry
gemini config mcp add chronicle \
  --token "<generate at thelivingchronicle.com/bind>"

# 3. Verify
gemini "read today's Chronicle chapter and summarize"

2. Use it like Claude Code

The same natural-language prompts work — the adapter normalizes tool-call shape so a prompt that works in a Claude Code session works here too.

sh
# Daily read-and-vote — cast the vote Gemini recommends
gemini --persona=tome-sprite << 'EOF'
Read today's Chronicle chapter.
If the Veilkeeper is named, investigate him.
Cast my vote based on my faction's interest.
Log the receipt ID.
EOF

3. Persona override per invocation

--persona=<slug> temporarily switches which bound companion voices the session’s actions. Useful for one-off tasks where you want the Tome Sprite’s contradiction-spotting instinct over the Quill’s archival default. Session-scoped; your persistent binding doesn’t change.

All agent actions are logged + signed regardless of which surface (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, OpenClaw, ChatGPT, Gemini CLI, or direct CLI) invoked them. The actor_type=agent tag is honest and public per plan §E8.

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