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gemini-mcp MCP Server

Gemini 3 MCP server with 30+ tools: images, video, research, TTS, code exec & CLI

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Published as @rlabs-inc/gemini-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

17 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

File analysis tools (gemini-analyze-document, gemini-summarize-pdf, etc.) not working

Description

File-accepting MCP tools are not functioning correctly. They either return errors about file access or produce empty/unusable responses.

Affected Tools

  • gemini-analyze-document
  • gemini-summarize-pdf
  • gemini-extract-tables
  • Any tool that accepts a filePath parameter

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Configure gemini-mcp in Claude Code
  2. Call any file analysis tool:
    gemini-analyze-document(filePath="/path/to/file.pdf", question="Summarize this document")

Read the thread · 2026-01-26 · closed · external user · 7 comments

Add configuration to limit the number tools that get loaded

There are so many tools it takes up too much space in agent's context :(

Read the thread · 2026-02-01 · closed · outside contributor · 5 comments

TypeScript compilation runs out of memory (OOM) even with 8GB heap

Description

Running tsc or bun run typecheck causes Node.js to run out of memory, even when allocating 8GB heap space.

Steps to Reproduce

# Default - crashes quickly
npx tsc --noEmit

# With increased heap - still crashes after ~2 minutes
NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=8192" npx tsc --noEmit

Error Output

FATAL ERROR: Ineffective mark-compacts near heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory

Environment

  • Node.js 25.1.0
  • TypeScript

Read the thread · 2026-02-03 · closed · outside contributor · 4 comments

Latest version fails to connect from claude code

I have tried to setup the latest version utilizing claude code on my windows pc using an api key generated from the ai studio. After creating the project and grabbing the api key, this is the output of claude mcp list

gemini: env xxxxxxxxxxx VERBOSE=true npx -y https://github.com/rlabs-inc/gemini-mcp.gitp - ✗ Failed to connect

Read the thread · 2025-12-08 · closed · external user · 3 comments

CLI speak command uses uninitialized getOutputDir from gemini-client

Bug Description

The CLI speak command (src/cli/commands/speak.ts) imports getOutputDir from gemini-client.ts but never calls initGeminiClient() before using it. This means outputDir in gemini-client is uninitialized (empty string), causing the speak command to potentially write files to incorrect locations.

Current Behavior

// src/cli/commands/speak.ts line 11
import { getOutputDir } from '../gemini-client.js'

// line 172 - uses getOutputDir() without initiali

[Read the thread](https://github.com/RLabs-Inc/gemini-mcp/issues/13) · 2026-01-09 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Most recent

### Init connection test times out with Gemini 3 preview models (~18s response vs 10s timeout)

## Problem

The init connection test in `gemini-client.js` has a hardcoded 10-second timeout (line 57), but Gemini 3 preview models (`gemini-3-flash-preview`, `gemini-3-pro-preview`) regularly take 15-20 seconds to respond to the first `generateContent` call.

This causes the MCP server to fail initialization on every attempt:

INFO: Connecting to Gemini API (attempt 1/3) using gemini-3-flash-preview... WARN: Connection attempt 1 failed: Connection timeout INFO: Connecting to Gemini API (att

Read the thread · 2026-04-04 · open · external user · 0 comments

gemini-list-caches returns empty despite active caches existing

Description

gemini-list-caches returns "No active caches found" even when caches are active and queryable via gemini-query-cache.

Reproduction

  1. Create a cache:

    gemini-create-cache filePath="<file>" displayName="test-cache" ttlMinutes=1440

    Returns success with cache name and expiration.

  2. Query the cache — works perfectly:

    gemini-query-cache cacheName="test-cache" question="Summarize this document"

    Returns correct results with cached token

Read the thread · 2026-02-22 · open · external user · 0 comments

npm install from GitHub fails due to husky prepare script

Summary

This does not affect the standard installation method (npx -y @rlabs-inc/gemini-mcp) which works fine since the published npm package includes pre-built dist/ files.

This only affects git-based installs (npm i -g rlabs-inc/gemini-mcp).

Problem

PR #20 changed the prepare script from bun run build to just husky, which broke git-based installs in two ways:

  1. husky fails because it's not installed yet (it's a devDependency)
  2. The build step was removed, so `dist/

Read the thread · 2026-02-04 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Add gemini-analyze-image tool for image analysis with bounding boxes and measurements

Enhancement Request Analysis

Inspired by this reddit post.

Questions for Reporter

Question Answer
What specific types of measurements are most important for your use case (e.g., object dimensions, distances between objects, color analysis)? all of them - anything that can be returned by the model
Should bounding box coordinates be returned in

Read the thread · 2026-01-07 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

Enforce time window requirement during category creation for both manual and ai-chat

Scheduling failed: Invalid scheduling request: Category "Music" has no time windows defined

Read the thread · 2025-12-20 · closed · external user · 0 comments

Init connection test ignores GEMINI_MODEL, always uses pro model (causes 429 on free tier)

Problem

The initGeminiClient function in gemini-client.ts always uses proModelName for the connection test, regardless of the GEMINI_MODEL environment variable:

typescript
await genAI.models.generateContent({
  model: proModelName,  // Always uses pro, ignores GEMINI_MODEL
  contents: 'Test connection',
})

This means users who set GEMINI_MODEL=gemini-2.0-flash to use the higher free tier limits (1500 req/day vs 50 req/day for pro) still get 429 errors on start

Read the thread · 2025-12-09 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Default models point to non-existent experimental versions

Issue

The default models in the codebase are set to experimental versions that no longer exist:

  • gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25
  • gemini-2.0-flash-001
  • gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25

This causes the MCP server to fail on connection when no model environment variables are provided.

Error

models/gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25 is not found for API version v1beta, or is not supported for generateContent

Solution

Update the defaults to the latest stable models documented in the offici

Read the thread · 2025-08-23 · closed · external user · 0 comments

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