docs(gemini-cli): add gnt integration guide

[ump45nose]

What & why

Fixes #200.

• Add a Gemini CLI Streamable HTTP configuration for the gnt-brain MCP endpoint.
• Document environment-based key handling, a five-tool allowlist, and trust: false.
• Add a reusable GEMINI.md policy for check_action, rule lookup, and human approval boundaries.
• Include connection, context-loading, behavior verification, and troubleshooting steps.

AI assistance disclosure: Prepared with Codex; the author reviewed the official Gemini CLI sources, repository behavior, implementation, and validation results.

Test plan

• pnpm lint
• pnpm typecheck
• pnpm build
• pnpm --filter @gnt-ai/examples test (6 passed)
• Parse and assert the documented JSON configuration with python3
• Verify local relative-link targets and HTTP 200 responses for all linked official Gemini CLI docs
• git diff --cached --check before commit
• pnpm test — attempted, but the local environment does not have Bun (sh: bun: command not found); hosted CI should run the full suite

Checklist

• This PR contains one logical documentation change.
• No credentials or production side effects are included.
• The commit includes a DCO sign-off.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added setup instructions for connecting Gemini CLI to the gnt-brain MCP server.
  • Documented authentication, tool access, policy loading, connection verification, and troubleshooting.
  • Added guidance for using gnt-brain tools, including policy checks, skill retrieval, and human approval workflows.

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Changes

Gemini CLI integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Tool policy and action handling integrations/gemini-cli/TOOLS.md, integrations/gemini-cli/CONNECT.md	Documents the five gnt-brain tools and requires check_action before consequential actions. It describes blocked and human-review verdicts, policy lookup, and approval handling.
MCP connection and policy setup integrations/gemini-cli/CONNECT.md	Documents Streamable HTTP configuration, GNT_MCP_KEY setup, tool filtering, trust: false, and loading TOOLS.md through Gemini CLI memory.
Connection verification and troubleshooting integrations/gemini-cli/CONNECT.md	Documents /mcp inspection commands, behavioral checks for blocked and needs_human, and troubleshooting steps.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5ae2e

The guide may prevent Gemini CLI from connecting because the documented environment-variable header can produce an empty bearer token, and its setup commands can expose organization-scoped credentials through shell history or command capture. These bounded correctness and security issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GeminiCLI
  participant gnt_brain_MCP
  participant ActionExecutor
  GeminiCLI->>gnt_brain_MCP: Call check_action
  gnt_brain_MCP-->>GeminiCLI: Return action verdict
  GeminiCLI->>ActionExecutor: Continue only when verdict is allowed

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Suggested reviewers: lukaadzic

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the Gemini CLI integration guide as the primary documentation change.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the change rationale, detailed test plan, validation limits, and repository checklist. It notes that the full test suite was not run because Bun was unavailable.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR adds both requested files under integrations/gemini-cli/ and documents Gemini CLI MCP configuration, key handling, tool restrictions, policy loading, verification, and troubleshooting as requir…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The documented changes are limited to the Gemini CLI integration guide requested by issue #200. No unrelated code or configuration changes are identified.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…

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The PR adds both requested files under integrations/gemini-cli/ and documents Gemini CLI MCP configuration, key handling, tool restrictions, policy loading, verification, and troubleshooting as required by issue #200.

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No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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In `@integrations/gemini-cli/CONNECT.md`:
- Line 51: Update the GNT_MCP_KEY setup instructions to avoid exposing the
bearer key in shell history: recommend secret-manager or non-echoed input with
environment injection, and instruct users to unset GNT_MCP_KEY after the Gemini
CLI session.
- Line 26: Update the Gemini CLI remote MCP header configuration to avoid
expanding GNT_MCP_KEY directly, using a credential path preserved by Gemini CLI
instead; also pin the configuration to a tested Gemini CLI release.

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[lukaadzic]

@ump45nose merged, along with #230, #232 and #229. The Gemini CLI guide is the most careful one in integrations/ so far: version-pinned doc links, trust: false, an explicit includeTools allowlist, and a key entry flow that doesn't land in shell history. The Pydantic AI example's CI wiring came through clean too. #231 just needs a sign-off on the tip commit and I'll take it.

Unrelated ask: I noticed you forked the repo but haven't starred it. If gnt has been useful to you, a star genuinely helps. It's most of how people find this thing, and the people who need a policy check in front of their agent mostly aren't searching for it yet.