TeamFlow in Gemini CLI
Gemini CLI loads Agent Skills, discovers OAuth from the server and has a command for signing in. Mind the key name: httpUrl means Streamable HTTP, and url means Server-Sent Events. The installer writes the right one.
Tool Gemini CLI Reporting Automatic, via hooks
1. Install
npx -y github:macleodlabs-ai/teamflow-plugin skills install --for gemini
That writes:
.agents/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md— the ten skills, in the shared skills directory this tool readsGEMINI.md— a marked TeamFlow block; your own instructions are kept~/.gemini/settings.json— the TeamFlow MCP server underhttpUrl.teamflow/hooks/gemini.sh— the hook itself; it callsteamflow hook --for gemini, prints nothing the tool could read as a denial, and exits 0 whatever happens.gemini/settings.json— the hook registration:AfterToolandAfterAgent
Add --scope user to install for every project on this machine, or --dry-run to see the file list without writing anything. Re-running it replaces TeamFlow's block and leaves the rest of each file alone.
2. The skills you get
The same ten the Claude Code plugin carries, generated from the same SKILL.md files. This tool loads them as skills, one directory each, with the name prefixed so they do not collide with anybody else’s in a shared directory.
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
teamflow-login / teamflow-logout | sign in once, or remove the session |
teamflow-status | who is signed in, what is bound, what was last sent |
teamflow-bind / teamflow-unbind | name the ticket by hand, or stop |
teamflow-sync | publish the current state now |
teamflow-doctor | transport, account, credits, tracker MCP |
teamflow-repos | register a repository so its CI can report |
teamflow-admin-code | email an invite code to an org admin; superadmins only |
macleodlabs-teamflow-client | call the paid service over MCP or REST |
Each one wraps a github:macleodlabs-ai/teamflow-plugin subcommand, so the skill and the shell command are the same thing. Inside Claude Code they are /teamflow:login, /teamflow:status and so on.
3. Sign in once
/mcp auth teamflow
The browser opens on a loopback callback and the token is cached in ~/.gemini/mcp-oauth-tokens.json, refreshed automatically. /mcp on its own lists which servers still need authenticating.
4. By hand
The installer writes this for you. If you would rather paste it: ~/.gemini/settings.json, or .gemini/settings.json in the project.
{
"mcpServers": {
"teamflow": {
"httpUrl": "https://codercat.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Writing url here asks for an SSE connection this endpoint does not serve, and the failure looks like an unreachable server rather than a wrong key.
Leave any oauth block out: for a server that supports OAuth discovery, Gemini CLI finds the endpoints itself after the first 401.
Gemini CLI reads both .gemini/skills and the shared .agents/skills root, and ranks the shared one higher within the same tier. The installer writes the shared one, so a repository carries a single copy that six other tools also read.
GEMINI.md is hierarchical: ~/.gemini/GEMINI.md for every project, then the workspace file and its parents. If the team would rather keep one file for every tool, point context.fileName at AGENTS.md in settings and install for codex instead.
5. The stages to report
| Stage | When |
|---|---|
LOCAL_DEV | code is being written on a workstation |
LOCAL_TEST | the local test suite or build passed |
LOCAL_AUDIT | a local review, lint or security audit passed |
LOCAL_REWORK | a local gate failed; pass --rework-from naming it |
MERGE | the pull request is merged, or ready to be |
CI_BUILD | CI is building the merged change |
DEPLOY_DEV | the change is deployed to the shared dev environment |
DEV_TEST | tests passed against dev |
DEV_AUDIT | an audit passed against dev |
DEV_REWORK | a dev gate failed; pass --rework-from naming it |
DEV_VERIFIED | verified in dev |
READY_PROD | waiting on the production decision |
JIRA is the thirteenth: the ticket exists and nothing has started. Statuses are running, success, waiting, blocked, failed and idle. This is the same vocabulary the Claude Code plugin derives, so a ticket moved from here sits in the same column as one moved by Claude.
6. Without the agent
Anything that runs in a shell posts the same report with no model involved. A git hook, an npm script, a run configuration, a CI step:
npx -y github:macleodlabs-ai/teamflow-plugin report --issue DAEMON-142 --stage LOCAL_TEST \
--status success --summary "42 tests, 0 failing"
Same envelope, same transport, same credential. Prefer it wherever the board has to be right whether or not an agent remembered. npx -y github:macleodlabs-ai/teamflow-plugin report --help lists every flag.
7. What this is not
Gemini CLI reports automatically through its own hooks: AfterTool and AfterAgent. Nothing to remember. AfterTool fires on every finished tool call, which is everything TeamFlow needs; the hook stays silent because Gemini parses a hook’s stdout as JSON.
The hooks see this tool's own calls and nothing else. A test run in another terminal, a merge from the web UI, a deploy from a pipeline: put npx -y github:macleodlabs-ai/teamflow-plugin report in the git hook or the script that already runs on every change, and those land on the board too.
8. What leaves your machine
TeamFlow is a delivery map for Jira, Linear and GitHub issues, run by MacleodLabs. Reports carry derived state only: a ticket key, a stage, a status, a short summary and evidence links. Prompts, diffs, source code, commands and logs are never sent and are rejected before they are charged.