Here is Gemini CLI’s March 11th weekly update for v0.33.0

📝Plan Mode: Introducing a read-only environment for researching, designing and planning before implementing. [Blog, Documentation]

• A read-only mode that allows you to safely explore and work with Gemini CLI to come up with a plan prior to implementation.
• Plan mode can leverage read-only MCP tools, Agent Skills and is built to be fully extensible 🔌🧩

🎼Conductor and Plan Mode: Conductor now uses built-in plan mode for research phases

⚙️ ACP Enhancements: Major upgrades to the Gemini CLI experience within IDEs!

• Slash Command Power: We have successfully implemented slash command handling directly in ACP for /memory, /init, /extensions, and /restore [feat: Implement slash command handling in ACP for /memory,/init,/extensions and /restore #20528, @sripasg].
• Model Routing: You can now utilize a new interface to set models within ACP [feat(acp): add set models interface #20991, @skeshive].

👁️ UI/UX Enhancements:

• Redesigned Header: The main UI header has been redesigned to be more compact, featuring a new ASCII icon (feat: redesign header to be compact with ASCII icon #18713, @keithguerin).
• Sub-agents confirmations: Improved UI to allow sub-agent confirmation requests (fix(cli): allow sub-agent confirmation requests in UI while preventing background flicker #20722, @abhipatel12).
• Copy Subcommand: Added a simple /plan copy subcommand to plan for` quick clipboard access (feat(plan): add copy subcommand to plan (#20491) #20988, @ruomengz).

🧠 Core Agent,

• Loop Detection Fixes: Reduced the number of LLM-based loop detection false positives to keep your agents running smoothly (fix(core): reduce LLM-based loop detection false positives #20701, @SandyTao520).
• History Retention: Enabled a 30-day default retention for chat history and removed the old retention warnings (feat(admin): enable 30 day default retention for chat history & remove warning  #20853, @skeshive).

🎉Gemini CLI Extensions:

• Shopify:

  • Integrate Gemini CLI with the Shopify Dev MCP server for direct terminal access to Shopify's API schemas, dev docs, and guidance.
  • gemini extensions install https://github.com/Shopify/dev-mcp-gemini-cli

• Canva:

  • Connect Gemini CLI to Canva and seamlessly incorporate design workflows directly into AI your conversations.
  • gemini extensions install https://github.com/canva-sdks/canva-gemini-extension

🧑‍💻/unassign support: When contributing to the Gemini CLI Repo use /unassign to unassign yourself from issues assigned to you on GitHub

Small features, Polish, Reliability & Bug Fixes: A large amount of changes, smaller features, UI updates, reliability and bug fixes + general polish made it in this week!