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umbriel for Gemini CLI

io.github.obscuritysrl/umbriel

See and drive a whole Windows machine from Bun — apps, input, screen, OCR, registry, OS — via MCP.

client:Gemini CLI transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install umbriel in Gemini CLI

~/.gemini/settings.json · windows: %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "umbriel": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "umbriel"
      ],
      "env": {
        "UMBRIEL_PROFILE": "<UMBRIEL_PROFILE>",
        "UMBRIEL_OS": "<UMBRIEL_OS>",
        "UMBRIEL_ALLOW": "<UMBRIEL_ALLOW>",
        "UMBRIEL_DENY": "<UMBRIEL_DENY>",
        "UMBRIEL_CURSOR": "<UMBRIEL_CURSOR>",
        "UMBRIEL_FS_ROOT": "<UMBRIEL_FS_ROOT>",
        "UMBRIEL_TRACE": "<UMBRIEL_TRACE>",
        "UMBRIEL_FFI_TRACE": "<UMBRIEL_FFI_TRACE>",
        "UMBRIEL_AUDIT": "<UMBRIEL_AUDIT>",
        "UMBRIEL_REDACT": "<UMBRIEL_REDACT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

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