You Can Now Nano Banana Right in Gemini CLI

There is a GitHub repository called nanobanana under the gemini-cli-extensions org and the README presumably explains what it does in a serious, technical way, and none of that matters, because the only sentence you need is the one that ships with it: you can now nano banana right in Gemini CLI.

I don't know who decided "nanobanana" was the name. I don't know what process led to that decision. I respect it unconditionally.

What I do know is that this is where we are — AI CLI tools have matured to the point where they have extension ecosystems, and those extension ecosystems have attracted contributors who are building things called nanobanana, and presumably the next six months produce something called microdurian and then we're off to the races.

The real tell is the install instruction. Every AI CLI extension now lives in this weird liminal space where the tool is supposed to be the thing that obviates the need for tooling, and yet here is a whole plugin system, extensions, a contrib org on GitHub, a name that sounds like a dessert you order at a restaurant that doesn't take reservations.

You couldn't have predicted this. You could have predicted that Gemini CLI would get extensions — that's just how developer tools work, you add an extension API and then people extend it. What you couldn't have predicted is nanobanana specifically. That part required a human.

Go install it. I don't know what it does but I'm confident it does it.