gemini-cli - 💡(How to fix) Fix Hallucinating Github links [1 comments, 2 participants]

What happened?

For privacy reasons I cannot upload my chat history. In a nutshell, I asked Gemini to look for some implementations for research-based code. The exact prompt I used:

Do the following papers have any link to any implementation? Is there ANY Github repo that contains things I can use to start building an audio-watermarking pipeline? Or do I have to start from scratch (which I don't necessarily mind).
1. Latent-Mark: An Audio Watermark Robust to Neural Resynthesis
2. Source Mixing and Separation Robust Audio Steganography

In its response, it hallucinated the following Github repos:

• https://github.com/YenShanChen/Latent-Mark
• https://github.com/SonyResearch/wm_robustness_eval

I then asked it how and why it hallucinated these links to check if there's something I can add to my preferences to prevent this from happening in the future.

Instead of telling me what happened, it started finding other links, all broken. It then tried to edit files in the repository, going completely rogue, instructions I did not give it.

What did you expect to happen?

1. Not hallucinate links.
2. Have some self-awareness in terms of thinking traces, finding out why a certain conclusion or output was reached, etc.

Client information

• CLI Version: 0.38.1
• Git Commit: 7f5580034
• Session ID: 50e789ae-d712-4dbe-8ce8-8dd5feb985bf
• Operating System: darwin v25.9.0
• Sandbox Environment: no sandbox
• Model Version: auto-gemini-3
• Auth Type: oauth-personal
• Memory Usage: 276.6 MB
• Terminal Name: iTerm2 3.6.10
• Terminal Background: #15191e
• Kitty Keyboard Protocol: Supported

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