Add Gemini CLI and Codex + Go Full Orchestrator

[orenbahari]

Feature requests:

Many AIs good at different things, for instance Gemini models are great at image analysis and Codex models are great at long horizon tasks. Adding the other CLIs would be nice.

Claude Code and these harnesses can also do a lot of agentic tasks beyond code, like edit blender or use playwright to interact with websites. This product could become a harness for local agent orchestrator but with different model + config pairs.
Instead of paying for an API, I already pay for the Google Pro AI subscription and have a task that run at intervals, which is perfect for Google's reset limits. I could imagine scaling it further by having a minimax agent more cheaply do interactions to obtain the image and then processing it with the more expensive Gemini, with harness + config + tools handing things off to each other locally. To make it mini agent fleet locally it would need:

1. To add Gemini CLI
2. Add Cron jobs that can call a specific config
3. Enable one config to call another config programmatically
4. Multiple threads run simultaneously with maybe an easy status view

Happy to have a look myself sometime next week

[neiii]

hey @orenbahari,
honestly the idea sounds pretty interesting, but I will need more details so see the vision. bridle is currently a config manager (ish), with pre-built setups coming soon.

if I understand correctly, you want to introduce scripting to bridle? we kind of made the CLI + --output json so that you can more or less craft it yourself using any programming language.

that said, would be a cool feature set to expand once all of the config management is stable, what things are missing from the CLI (besides Gemini CLI support), that prevent you from achieving your goals?

[orenbahari]

Hey @neiii,
So, what is an agent:

1. Runs/starts unprompted, so needs cron jobs and action triggers
2. Can continue without feedback, so needs function beyond CLIs/run/review to say I am done stop looping or need help (ralf wiggum style)
3. Standardized tool use and efficient handoff, so you need config setup + cli management (this is bridle now)
4. Prompting + Steps, so you need to be able to be able to easily manage prompts + configs + conditions + grouping

User Story:
Imagine I have subscriptions to Claude + Gemini, and I want to effectively use my subscription budget or use cheaper models like Minimax for interim steps, instead of buying another tool or paying for more through an api, for my day-to-day automation/work. My local PC has a bunch of permissions setups + documents/context, and setting something up in the cloud and keeping it synced would be harder. I also deeply dislike ecosystem lock-in, having to figure out what the syntax + up-to-date approaches is for each cli, and want an easy solution as writing a few prompts and getting a consistent result. Tools like n8n deeply ago against the utility of AI, which is having the AI continuously figure out what it ought to do instead of predefined tasks. My current objective is when my clients text me over iMessage, I want to read the messages stored on my computer and figure what, if and how to update my local excel crm with relevant client info. We have multiple hand offs, including using Claude Code to script excel updates, using cheaper Minimax to browser the internet with a playwright headless browser, and using Gemini to process/review/edit images.

Of course, I could setup minimax hack myself, I could understand each frameworks cli tools, I could write a ralf wiggum promissory exit across clis, I could manage a bunch of steps of prompt + config, or I could write and test api + python frameworks, but it would be lovely if you could have three terminal pages: configs, prompts, and schedules; then combine it all in a schedule to say "every hour, run this cli and this cli with these options to hand off to other clis, ask questions if stuck, or claim completion if you encounter something". Essentially subagents + scripting + tool/config + ralf, for complete autonomous local terminal agent, but no lock in and using your existing budgets.