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Summary

Refine the description of the CliHelpAgent to clarify its triggers and specialized role in answering questions about documentation, schemas, and custom subagents.

Details

  • Updated description in packages/core/src/agents/cli-help-agent.ts from "Specialized in answering questions about how users use you..." to a more prescriptive trigger-based description.
  • Framed capabilities around answering questions about features/schemas to prevent inappropriate action triggers.

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How to Validate

  • Run agent unit test: npm test -w @google/gemini-cli-core -- src/agents/cli-help-agent.test.ts
  • Run preflight in root: npm run preflight

Pre-Merge Checklist

  • Updated relevant documentation and README (if needed)
  • Added/updated tests (if needed)
  • Noted breaking changes (if any)
  • Validated on required platforms/methods:
    • MacOS
      • npm run

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Hello, I'm Gemini Code Assist1! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed!

This pull request refines the description of the CliHelpAgent to enhance its clarity and improve how it's invoked. The change provides more specific triggers for its use, focusing on documentation, configuration schemas, and custom subagent creation, which helps in better agent delegation and prevents misinterpretations of its function.

Highlights

  • Refined CliHelpAgent Description: The description for the CliHelpAgent has been updated to provide clearer guidance on its triggers and specialized role, specifically for questions about CLI features, configuration schemas, and creating custom subagents.
  • Improved Agent Delegation: The updated description aims to prevent inappropriate action triggers by more precisely framing the agent's capabilities around answering questions related to features and schemas, thereby improving delegation.
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This pull request refines the description of the CliHelpAgent to be more specific about its role and triggers. The new description clarifies that the agent is specialized in answering questions about CLI features, configuration schemas, and custom subagent creation by querying internal documentation. This change aligns with the stated goal of improving agent delegation, and no issues were found.

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Approved with suggestion.

@gemini-cli gemini-cli bot added the status/need-issue Pull requests that need to have an associated issue. label Mar 20, 2026
@abhipatel12 abhipatel12 force-pushed the abhi/help-agent-description branch from 88ffd1d to 54ff63d Compare March 21, 2026 06:00
@abhipatel12 abhipatel12 requested a review from a team as a code owner March 21, 2026 06:00
@abhipatel12 abhipatel12 added this pull request to the merge queue Mar 21, 2026
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@abhipatel12 abhipatel12 deleted the abhi/help-agent-description branch March 21, 2026 06:35
warrenzhu25 pushed a commit to warrenzhu25/gemini-cli that referenced this pull request Apr 9, 2026
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