What happened?

Observe:

$ gemini --prompt "are you ready?"
Ripgrep is not available. Falling back to GrepTool.
I am ready. Please provide your instructions.

The message Ripgrep is not available. Falling back to GrepTool. is, at best, confusing. It doesn't present any information as regards how to remedy the situation or silence the message.

For reference, the tool rg is installed on my Linux (ARM_64) system:

$ rg --version
ripgrep 13.0.0
-SIMD -AVX (compiled)

I don't have any explicit entry in my ~/.gemini/settings.json as regards tools.useRipgrep, so the default value of true applies, as confirmed by /settings:

│ ● Use Ripgrep true │ │ Use ripgrep for file content search instead of the fallback implementation. Provides faster search performance. │

I am using a "conventional" install of Gemini CLI:

$ sudo npm install -g @google/gemini-cli@preview

I.e., I am not using the SEA version, for which "Ripgrep binaries are now bundled into the Single Executable Application (SEA)".

What did you expect to happen?

1. Given that I'm not using the SEA version of Gemini CLI (AFAIK, this is the only case in which the ripgrep binaries are bundled), the rg tool installed in my system should be used (if tools.useRipgrep is true.)
2. If using my system's rg simply isn't supported, then tools.useRipgrep shouldn't have default true (except in the SEA case).
3. The warning Ripgrep is not available. Falling back to GrepTool. shouldn't be so noisy. It would be better if it were shown only with gemini --debug --prompt ..., in my opinion.
4. This warning should be treated consistently with non-interactive & interactive modes. Currently, it's shown for the former, but not the latter.

Client information

Run gemini to enter the interactive CLI, then run the /about command.

> /about
╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                                                                                                           │
│ About Gemini CLI                                                                                                                                          │
│                                                                                                                                                           │
│ CLI Version                                           0.41.0-preview.0                                                                                    │
│ Git Commit                                            a5befa04f                                                                                           │
│ Model                                                 Auto (Gemini 3)                                                                                     │
│ Sandbox                                               no sandbox                                                                                          │
│ OS                                                    linux                                                                                               │
│                                                                                                                                                           │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

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Anything else we need to know?

It would be helpful, IMO, to add more information to https://geminicli.com/docs/ regarding how to configure ripgrep for supported usage in Gemini CLI.