Announced in October 2025, Jules Tools is a lightweight command line interface for Google Jules, Google’s asynchronous coding agent. Google built it because developers had previously interacted with Jules mainly through a web browser, and describes it as a way to spin up tasks, inspect what Jules is doing and customize the agent without leaving the terminal.
Google presents it as both a dashboard and a command surface for a coding agent. Its stated significance is not only convenience of access: Google argues the CLI makes Jules programmable, scriptable and customizable, so it can be integrated into a developer’s own automations or used to steer the agent in real time with short commands.
Capabilities
Google gives npm as the easiest way to get started:
npm install -g @google/jules
At its core the CLI is built around commands, which tell Jules what to do, and
flags, which adjust how it behaves. Google’s examples are jules remote list --task
to list remote tasks, and jules --theme light to switch to a light-themed terminal
interface.
Because it is scriptable, Jules Tools composes with other command line tools. Google’s
published examples list the repositories connected to Jules, create a remote session
against a named repository with jules remote new --repo <repo> --session "<task>", loop
a TODO.md file into one session per line, pipe a GitHub issue title from gh straight
into a new session, and use the Gemini CLI to pick the most tedious issue from a list and
hand it to Jules.
For interactive use the tool also offers a TUI. Google states that commands such as
/remote give a dashboard view of tasks while /new walks through creating one step by
step, and characterizes this as the same control as the web UI, faster and closer to where
the developer already works locally.
Adoption & Ecosystem
Google positions the tool within a “hybrid by design” view of development tooling: local plus remote, using the developer’s own machine when wanted and spinning up multiple VMs when scale is needed; and do-it-yourself plus delegation, staying hands-on with code while offloading work to the agent. The announcement and its worked examples are described in Meet Jules Tools: A Command Line Companion for Google’s Async Coding Agent.