Google Rolls Out Gemini Code Assist Agent Mode for Developers Worldwide

August 20, 2025

Details

  • Google has made Agent Mode for Gemini Code Assist broadly available in both Visual Studio Code (Preview) and IntelliJ (Stable), moving beyond its initial Insiders-only release from June 2025.
  • The expanded rollout brings Gemini Code Assist, powered by Gemini CLI, to individual developers and enterprise teams using supported integrated development environments.
  • Agent Mode allows conversational AI to manage complex, multi-step coding tasks, offering detailed plans for user review and approval, supporting full project context and intricate code changes.
  • This upgrade advances Google's suite from traditional code completion to collaborative, context-aware AI assistance, challenging Microsoft's GitHub Copilot Workspace, which debuted similar capabilities earlier in 2025.
  • The Gemini CLI has seen robust community engagement, earning over 70,000 GitHub stars and 2,800 pull requests since June, and now features deeper VS Code integration and GitHub Actions support for streamlined code reviews.

Impact

The wide release of Google’s Agent Mode intensifies competition with GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer, as enterprise and individual developers seek robust AI code collaboration tools. By embracing agentic workflows with human oversight, Google underscores a market shift from simple code completion to full-project AI orchestration. This move signals Google’s ambition to capture a larger share of the rapidly evolving AI developer tool landscape.

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