gemini-cli - 💡(How to fix) Fix [New Feature] What would you think about being able to create your own "agents" / reusable subtasks? [1 participants]

What would you like to be added?

The following list is just a suggestion for a structure.

Alternatively: Could you have multiple agents.md / gemini.md files, for example:

• gemini_planning.md
• gemini_requirements.md
• gemini_architecture.md
• gemini_analysis.md ~gemini_documention.md etc.

These snippets would then need to be activated in the main prompt, perhaps using a tilde (~) similar to the "@" symbol, for example, ~gemini_documentation or short ~documentation. The Gemini CLI would look for "gemini_" and treat all gemini_ files as "subagents."

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Overview: AI Agents in the Software Development Process

This overview describes the various roles that artificial intelligence can play in a modern development team to automate the path from idea to finished product.

1. Needs Analysis & Planning (Requirements Assistant)

• Tasks: Capturing user needs, creating application scenarios (user stories), and checking whether implementation is technically feasible.

• Function: This assistant reads specifications, structures the requirements, and identifies gaps or unclear points in the plan.

2. Software Structure & Design (Architecture Assistant)

• Tasks: Designing the system architecture, planning the database schema, and selecting suitable programming frameworks and tools.

• Function: It creates software blueprints (architecture diagrams), designs interfaces for communication (APIs), and utilizes knowledge of existing program components.

3. Implementation & Programming (Programming Assistant)

• Tasks: Writing standard code snippets (boilerplate), implementing new functions, and improving the internal code structure (refactoring).

• Function: Writes program code across multiple files, understands existing systems, and implements targeted changes.

4. Quality Assurance & Testing (Testing Assistant)

• Tasks: Create automated unit tests and end-to-end tests for the entire software system.

• Function: Executes these tests independently, evaluates the results, finds bugs, and proposes solutions.

5. Review & Standards (Testing Assistant)

• Tasks: Review pull requests for clean code, security vulnerabilities, and adherence to programming rules.

• Function: It serves as a control instance for the programming assistant. In case of violations of standards, it stops the process until the code is corrected.

6. Operations & Deployment (Operations Assistant / DevOps)

• Tasks: Setting up automated processes for releasing the software (CI/CD pipelines), provisioning server resources in the cloud, and monitoring the running system.

• Function: It automates the entire process from finished code to the user, responds to system incidents, and creates overview tables (dashboards) for performance monitoring.

7. Documentation & Knowledge Management (Knowledge Assistant)

• Tasks: Creating guides, interface descriptions (API documentation), and technical manuals.

• Function: It keeps the documentation up to date with the latest code changes and serves as a central database for the team's project-related questions.``

Why is this needed?

It would be very well suited for code analysis or documentation as a kind of prompt template which could be adapted in behavior and task structure via the normal prompt.

Additional context

"Agents" might be a bit of an overstatement, but they would be prompt templates that, if they are detailed, would essentially function as agents.

It would also be important to have something like ~dry:gemini_architecture, a format for "~" prompt templates/sub-agents in combination with ~dry:. This would essentially be a test run that doesn't actively modify any files but simply outputs a Markdown/HTML report showing what would have changed in the codebase without altering the codebase itself.

The ~gemini_documentation.md file should have a basic structure, for example, for the displayed agent name and description.

For example, within the file:

~agents_title: Codebase Documentation ~agents_description: For Documenting the Codebase

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