Google Embeds Subagents Inside Gemini CLI — Terminal Becomes Multi-Agent Dispatch Centre
Your terminal just became an orchestrator. Google shipped subagents in Gemini CLI v0.38.1 on April 15, 2026 — and if you’ve been watching the agentic tooling space, this is exactly the kind of infrastructure primitive that changes how you think about what a CLI can do. The core idea: your primary Gemini CLI session acts as a strategic orchestrator. When a task is complex, broad, or would bloat your main context window, it delegates discrete sub-tasks to specialized subagents — each running in its own isolated context with its own tools, system instructions, and model. ...