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Gemini CLI SRIFT Resource/Quickstart Instructions

How to: Gemini CLI SRIFT Quickstart Instructions

client:Gemini CLI transport:streamable-http resource:Quickstart Instructions

Add SRIFT to Gemini CLI

  1. 01

    Open ~/.gemini/settings.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "srift": {
      "httpUrl": "https://srift.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
  1. 02

    Save the file and restart Gemini CLI.

  2. 03

    Quickstart Instructions is surfaced wherever your client lets you attach context. It is context to attach, not an action to run.

  3. 04

    If it does not appear, check that SRIFT is connected and that you are looking at its resources rather than its tools.

Gemini expands $VAR and ${VAR} inside env values, so a secret can live in your shell rather than this file. Gemini CLI docs

Set these first

SRIFT will not start until these are set, so it never reaches Gemini CLI.

  • SRIFT_DAEMON_PORT

Same resource, other clients

Read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling resources/list on 24 September 2026. A listing does not declare its resources, so asking is the only way to know them, and this is what the server actually offers rather than what its listing claims. Names only are stored; connect the server for each resource's type and contents.