v0.56.0-preview.1

Pre-release

google-gemini/gemini-cliv0.56.0-preview.1Aug 11, 2026by gemini-cli-robot

AI Summary

A major preview release introducing the 'Caretaker' system for issue triage and evaluation, alongside various core fixes and OAuth improvements.

Key Highlights

Introduced Caretaker triage workflows, evaluation framework, and golden issue collection
Added issue comment handling and re-triage workflows
Reclassified Capacity Exhaustion as a Terminal Error
Added Firestore schema updates and GCP deployment scripts for caretaker services

New Features

Caretaker triage workflows
Caretaker evaluation framework and judge runner
Ingestion workflows for issue handling
MCP OAuth token refresh with stored client ID

Full Release Notes

## What's Changed
* Changelog for v0.55.0-preview.1 by @gemini-cli-robot in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28706
* chore(release): bump version to 0.56.0-nightly.20260806.g761f604c1 by @gemini-cli-robot in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28707
* Changelog for v0.54.0 by @gemini-cli-robot in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28708
* Reclassifying Capacity Exhaustion as Terminal Error by @luisfelipe-alt in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28716
* feat(caretaker): update Firestore schema with error, and pr_number fields by @chadd28 in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28467
* feat(caretaker-triage): prompt hill-climbing & orchestrator updates by @chadd28 in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28524
* feat(caretaker): add triage Cloud Run job workflow by @chadd28 in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28468
* feat(caretaker-evals): add triage evaluation framework and judge runner by @chadd28 in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28530
* feat(caretaker-evals): add local golden issue collection and firestore sync tools by @chadd28 in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28532
* feat(caretaker): publish workable spec event to ready-for-code Pub/Sub topic by @chadd28 in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28588
* feat(caretaker): add GCP deployment script for caretaker agent services by @chadd28 in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28529
* feat(caretaker-evals): add Cloud Run job entrypoint for eval runner by @chadd28 in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28727
* fix(caretaker): clear lock on NEEDS_HUMAN transition by @chadd28 in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28601
* feat(ingestion): add issue comment handling and re-triage workflow by @chadd28 in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28690
* fix(core): refresh MCP OAuth tokens with the stored client ID by @ParthivNaresh in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28481
* fix(core,cli): resolve false model capacity exhaustion and fix core quota lookup model mapping by @DavidAPierce in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28730
* feat(evals): add local report command and developer documentation by @ved015 in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28369

## New Contributors
* @ParthivNaresh made their first contribution in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28481

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/compare/v0.55.0-preview.3...v0.56.0-preview.1