Gemini

IRFlow parses the Gemini CLI (the npm/agentic CLI), not the official Gemini macOS desktop app. Desktop history is mostly cloud-synced and is not decoded.

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Canonical paths

Platform	Path
macOS / Linux	~/.gemini/tmp/<project_hash>/chats/**/*.jsonl, ~/.gemini/shell_history
Windows	C:\Users\<user>\.gemini\tmp\<hash>\chats\**\*.jsonl, C:\Users\<user>\.gemini\shell_history

Also parsed when present: legacy session-*.json, logs.json, and checkpoints under ~/.gemini.

What IRFlow extracts

Artifact	Status	Why it matters
~/.gemini/tmp/<hash>/chats/**/*.jsonl	Parsed	Current append-only sessions, including nested subagent chats.
~/.gemini/shell_history	Parsed	Exact shell-history entries, including continued multiline commands.
Legacy session-*.json, checkpoints, logs.json	Parsed	Older Gemini CLI layouts.

Current sessions are append-only JSONL. IRFlow replays message records, $set checkpoints, and $rewindTo operations to reconstruct the retained session state. It emits separate tool-call and tool-result rows, preserves the exact run_shell_command command in ToolCommand, and marks nested chat directories as subagent evidence.

How to import

1. File → Open… and select the .gemini folder, or Tools → Analysis → AI Artifacts → AI Apps → Gemini CLI…
2. Current chats/**/*.jsonl, shell_history, and legacy JSON artifacts from the same .gemini tree consolidate into one tab.

Collect AI Artifacts also finds Gemini CLI roots on This Mac or inside a KAPE/triage folder.

Investigation tips

• ToolCommand holds the exact run_shell_command string — treat it as evidence, the same as a shell history hit.
• Nested chat directories are subagent evidence. Start with main sessions on a large project tree.
• $rewindTo / $set mean the retained session is not a simple append-only log. IRFlow replays those markers so the grid reflects what the CLI still had, not every line that was ever written.

Limitations

• Official Gemini macOS desktop app history is not parsed.
• Browser-only Gemini usage is hint-only; collect the browser profile separately.

See also

• AI Query History overview
• Cursor
• AI Artifacts