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Problem

GeminiCoder was invoking the gemini CLI incorrectly using echo "prompt" | gemini, which causes the command to fail with exit status 1. The gemini CLI expects the prompt as a positional argument, not via stdin.

This caused all 100 Gemini evaluation tests to fail in the literature MCP evaluation project.

Solution

Changed the command invocation from:

command = ["sh", "-c", f'echo "{text}" | gemini']

To:

command = ["gemini", text]

Benefits

  • Fixes execution: Gemini CLI now runs successfully
  • Avoids shell escaping issues: Passing text directly as an argument prevents problems with special characters (quotes, $, etc.)
  • Maintains MCP support: MCP servers configured in .gemini/settings.json are still loaded correctly
  • Simpler code: Removes unnecessary shell wrapper

Testing

Verified that:

  1. Basic invocation works: gemini "What is 2+2?" returns "4"
  2. MCP configuration is created and loaded correctly
  3. Special characters in prompts are handled properly

Related

This PR builds on #37 (custom GEval support) and is needed for the literature MCP evaluation project to successfully test Gemini 2.5 Flash.

Charles Parker added 30 commits August 29, 2025 14:58
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… logging in runner.py. Added test configuration to support log capture for assertions that downgrade was successful. Addressed ruff warnings.
… verbosity temporarily to debug Claude judge unit test on build server. Adjusted logic to work when multiple coders are specified. Improved log messages.
…ic downgrade to DummyMetric on quota check failure. Added notes on potential improvements to unit tests.
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…verwrite. Enforced UTF-8 encoding, switched to safe_dump and added document delimiter between records. Also simplified document generation. Fixes issue #24. Added second test case to literature_mcp_encoding_test.yaml for testing.
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The gemini CLI (and potentially other CLIs) were hanging because they
wait for stdin input. This fix adds stdin=PIPE to the Popen call and
immediately closes it, which is equivalent to redirecting from /dev/null.

This prevents any subprocess from blocking while waiting for stdin input,
without affecting functionality since run_process() doesn't support
passing stdin data - all coders pass prompts via command-line arguments.

Fixes the hanging issue reported with GeminiCoder.
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PR Code Review: Fix GeminiCoder CLI invocation ✅

Conducting comprehensive code review focusing on code quality, potential bugs, performance, security, and test coverage.

Review Checklist:

  • Read repository guidelines and understand codebase structure
  • Review core Gemini coder CLI invocation fix
  • Examine evaluation framework enhancements and new features
  • Check test coverage and new test files
  • Assess security implications of CLI changes
  • Look for performance considerations
  • Provide overall feedback and recommendations

🎯 Overall Assessment: APPROVED

This is a high-quality PR that addresses a critical bug while introducing valuable evaluation framework enhancements. The changes are well-implemented and follow project best practices.

✅ Core Gemini CLI Fix Analysis

The main fix in src/metacoder/coders/gemini.py:138 is excellent and represents a significant improvement:

Before:

command = ["sh", "-c", f'echo "{text}" | gemini']

After:

command = ["gemini", text]

Benefits:

  • Security: Eliminates shell injection vulnerabilities from unescaped quotes/special characters in f-string interpolation
  • Reliability: Direct process invocation is more robust than shell command composition
  • Consistency: Aligns with other coders in the codebase (Claude, Goose, Qwen all use direct execution)
  • Simplicity: Removes unnecessary shell wrapper and piping complexity
  • Performance: Direct execution is faster, eliminates shell overhead

🔍 Security Analysis

Excellent security improvements:

  • Before: High shell injection risk from unescaped user input in f-string interpolation
  • After: Safe argument passing via subprocess list format
  • Verification: Checked base_coder.py:178-187 - uses subprocess.Popen(command, ...) which safely handles arguments when passed as list

🧪 Test Coverage Assessment

Strong test coverage:

  • tests/test_custom_geval.py - Comprehensive validation for new MetricConfig features
  • tests/test_evals/test_claude_judge.py - ClaudeJudge fallback mechanism testing
  • ✅ Integration tests in tests/test_coders/test_coders_basic.py include Gemini coder testing
  • ✅ UTF-8 handling tests ensure international character support

ClaudeJudge Fallback Testing:
The evaluation system has sophisticated multi-tier fallback:

  1. Primary: OpenAI GPT-4 for evaluations
  2. Fallback 1: If OpenAI fails, downgrade to ClaudeJudge (Claude Sonnet 4)
  3. Fallback 2: If Claude also fails, downgrade to DummyMetric

Tests verify graceful degradation at each level with proper error handling and logging.

🚀 Evaluation Framework Enhancements

Excellent additions:

  1. Custom GEval Support (eval_model.py:13-45):

    • Flexible rubric, criteria, and evaluation_steps configuration
    • Proper mutual exclusivity validation with clear error messages
    • Good Pydantic model design with comprehensive validation
  2. ClaudeJudge Implementation (judges.py:13-90):

    • Clean integration with DeepEval framework
    • Proper API key handling and quota checking via has_available_quota()
    • Good fallback mechanisms for evaluation reliability
  3. Enhanced Evaluation Runner:

    • Graceful degradation when models unavailable
    • Comprehensive logging for debugging evaluation issues
    • Robust error handling for API failures

⚡ Performance Considerations

  • Improvement: Direct process execution eliminates shell overhead
  • Memory: Removes intermediate pipe/echo processes
  • Error handling: Better error propagation without shell wrapper interference

📋 Code Quality

Excellent adherence to project standards:

  • ✅ Consistent with existing coder implementations
  • ✅ Proper error handling and logging patterns
  • ✅ Good type hints and documentation
  • ✅ Follows established patterns (BaseCoder inheritance, MCP integration)
  • ✅ Clean separation of concerns in evaluation framework

⚠️ Minor Observations

  1. Non-blocking: No validation that text argument doesn't contain newlines/control chars, but subprocess handles this safely
  2. Enhancement opportunity: Could add input sanitization logging for debugging, but not necessary for functionality
  3. Linting: Unable to run linting tools directly due to missing uv/ruff in environment, but code structure appears sound

🏆 Recommendations

  1. Merge immediately - This fixes a critical bug affecting all Gemini evaluations
  2. Consider: Add a simple integration test specifically for special character handling in prompts
  3. Follow-up: The evaluation framework enhancements open opportunities for richer testing scenarios

💎 Summary

This PR successfully:

  • Fixes the core issue: Gemini CLI now invokes correctly using positional arguments
  • Improves security: Eliminates shell injection risks through direct process execution
  • Enhances reliability: More robust process execution pattern
  • Adds valuable features: Custom evaluation capabilities with Claude fallback
  • Maintains consistency: Follows established codebase patterns
  • Includes comprehensive tests: Good coverage for new evaluation features

Verdict: This is a well-crafted PR that addresses the immediate problem while adding substantial value to the evaluation framework. Ready for merge! 🚀


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PR Code Review: Fix GeminiCoder CLI invocation ✅

Conducting comprehensive code review focusing on code quality, potential bugs, performance, security, and test coverage.

Review Checklist:

  • Read repository guidelines and understand codebase structure
  • Review core Gemini coder CLI invocation fix
  • Examine evaluation framework enhancements and new features
  • Check test coverage and new test files
  • Assess security implications of CLI changes
  • Look for performance considerations
  • Provide overall feedback and recommendations

🎯 Overall Assessment: APPROVED

This is a high-quality PR that addresses a critical bug while introducing valuable evaluation framework enhancements. The changes are well-implemented and follow project best practices.

✅ Core Gemini CLI Fix Analysis

The main fix in src/metacoder/coders/gemini.py:138 is excellent and represents a significant improvement:

Before:

command = ["sh", "-c", f'echo "{text}" | gemini']

After:

command = ["gemini", text]

Benefits:

  • Security: Eliminates shell injection vulnerabilities from unescaped quotes/special characters in f-string interpolation
  • Reliability: Direct process invocation is more robust than shell command composition
  • Consistency: Aligns with other coders in the codebase (Claude, Goose, Qwen all use direct execution)
  • Simplicity: Removes unnecessary shell wrapper and piping complexity
  • Performance: Direct execution is faster, eliminates shell overhead

🔍 Security Analysis

Excellent security improvements:

  • Before: High shell injection risk from unescaped user input in f-string interpolation
  • After: Safe argument passing via subprocess list format
  • Verification: Checked base_coder.py:178-187 - uses subprocess.Popen(command, ...) which safely handles arguments when passed as list

🧪 Test Coverage Assessment

Strong test coverage:

  • tests/test_custom_geval.py - Comprehensive validation for new MetricConfig features
  • tests/test_evals/test_claude_judge.py - ClaudeJudge fallback mechanism testing
  • ✅ Integration tests in tests/test_coders/test_coders_basic.py include Gemini coder testing
  • ✅ UTF-8 handling tests ensure international character support

ClaudeJudge Fallback Testing:
The evaluation system has sophisticated multi-tier fallback:

  1. Primary: OpenAI GPT-4 for evaluations
  2. Fallback 1: If OpenAI fails, downgrade to ClaudeJudge (Claude Sonnet 4)
  3. Fallback 2: If Claude also fails, downgrade to DummyMetric

Tests verify graceful degradation at each level with proper error handling and logging.

🚀 Evaluation Framework Enhancements

Excellent additions:

  1. Custom GEval Support (eval_model.py:13-45):

    • Flexible rubric, criteria, and evaluation_steps configuration
    • Proper mutual exclusivity validation with clear error messages
    • Good Pydantic model design with comprehensive validation
  2. ClaudeJudge Implementation (judges.py:13-90):

    • Clean integration with DeepEval framework
    • Proper API key handling and quota checking via has_available_quota()
    • Good fallback mechanisms for evaluation reliability
  3. Enhanced Evaluation Runner (runner.py:392-421):

    • Graceful degradation when models unavailable
    • Comprehensive logging for debugging evaluation issues
    • Robust error handling for API failures

⚡ Performance Considerations

  • Improvement: Direct process execution eliminates shell overhead
  • Memory: Removes intermediate pipe/echo processes
  • Error handling: Better error propagation without shell wrapper interference

📋 Code Quality

Excellent adherence to project standards:

  • ✅ Consistent with existing coder implementations
  • ✅ Proper error handling and logging patterns
  • ✅ Good type hints and documentation
  • ✅ Follows established patterns (BaseCoder inheritance, MCP integration)
  • ✅ Clean separation of concerns in evaluation framework

⚠️ Minor Observations

  1. Non-blocking: No validation that text argument doesn't contain newlines/control chars, but subprocess handles this safely
  2. Enhancement opportunity: Could add input sanitization logging for debugging, but not necessary for functionality

🏆 Recommendations

  1. Merge immediately - This fixes a critical bug affecting all Gemini evaluations
  2. Consider: Add a simple integration test specifically for special character handling in prompts
  3. Follow-up: The evaluation framework enhancements open opportunities for richer testing scenarios

💎 Summary

This PR successfully:

  • Fixes the core issue: Gemini CLI now invokes correctly using positional arguments
  • Improves security: Eliminates shell injection risks through direct process execution
  • Enhances reliability: More robust process execution pattern
  • Adds valuable features: Custom evaluation capabilities with Claude fallback
  • Maintains consistency: Follows established codebase patterns
  • Includes comprehensive tests: Good coverage for new evaluation features

Verdict: This is a well-crafted PR that addresses the immediate problem while adding substantial value to the evaluation framework. Ready for merge! 🚀

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PR Review: Fix GeminiCoder CLI invocation ✅

Conducting comprehensive code review focusing on code quality, potential bugs, performance, security, and test coverage.

Review Checklist:

  • Read repository guidelines and understand codebase structure
  • Review core Gemini coder CLI invocation fix
  • Examine evaluation framework enhancements and new features
  • Check test coverage and new test files
  • Assess security implications of CLI changes
  • Look for performance considerations
  • Provide overall feedback and recommendations

🎯 Overall Assessment: APPROVED

This is a high-quality PR that addresses a critical bug while introducing valuable evaluation framework enhancements. The changes are well-implemented and follow project best practices.

✅ Core Gemini CLI Fix Analysis

The main fix in src/metacoder/coders/gemini.py:138 is excellent and represents a significant improvement:

Before:

command = ["sh", "-c", f'echo "{text}" | gemini']

After:

command = ["gemini", text]

Benefits:

  • Security: Eliminates shell injection vulnerabilities from unescaped quotes/special characters in f-string interpolation
  • Reliability: Direct process invocation is more robust than shell command composition
  • Consistency: Aligns with other coders in the codebase (Claude, Goose, Qwen all use direct execution)
  • Simplicity: Removes unnecessary shell wrapper and piping complexity
  • Performance: Direct execution is faster, eliminates shell overhead

🔍 Security Analysis

Excellent security improvements:

  • Before: High shell injection risk from unescaped user input in f-string interpolation
  • After: Safe argument passing via subprocess list format
  • Verification: Checked base_coder.py:178-187 - uses subprocess.Popen(command, ...) which safely handles arguments when passed as list

🧪 Test Coverage Assessment

Strong test coverage:

  • tests/test_custom_geval.py - Comprehensive validation for new MetricConfig features
  • tests/test_evals/test_claude_judge.py - ClaudeJudge fallback mechanism testing
  • ✅ Integration tests in tests/test_coders/test_coders_basic.py include Gemini coder testing
  • ✅ UTF-8 handling tests ensure international character support

ClaudeJudge Fallback Testing:
The evaluation system has sophisticated multi-tier fallback:

  1. Primary: OpenAI GPT-4 for evaluations
  2. Fallback 1: If OpenAI fails, downgrade to ClaudeJudge (Claude Sonnet 4)
  3. Fallback 2: If Claude also fails, downgrade to DummyMetric

Tests verify graceful degradation at each level with proper error handling and logging.

🚀 Evaluation Framework Enhancements

Excellent additions:

  1. Custom GEval Support (eval_model.py:13-45):

    • Flexible rubric, criteria, and evaluation_steps configuration
    • Proper mutual exclusivity validation with clear error messages
    • Good Pydantic model design with comprehensive validation
  2. ClaudeJudge Implementation (judges.py:13-90):

    • Clean integration with DeepEval framework
    • Proper API key handling and quota checking via has_available_quota()
    • Good fallback mechanisms for evaluation reliability
  3. Enhanced Evaluation Runner (runner.py:392-421):

    • Graceful degradation when models unavailable
    • Comprehensive logging for debugging evaluation issues
    • Robust error handling for API failures

⚡ Performance Considerations

  • Improvement: Direct process execution eliminates shell overhead
  • Memory: Removes intermediate pipe/echo processes
  • Error handling: Better error propagation without shell wrapper interference

📋 Code Quality

Excellent adherence to project standards:

  • ✅ Consistent with existing coder implementations
  • ✅ Proper error handling and logging patterns
  • ✅ Good type hints and documentation
  • ✅ Follows established patterns (BaseCoder inheritance, MCP integration)
  • ✅ Clean separation of concerns in evaluation framework

⚠️ Minor Observations

  1. Non-blocking: No validation that text argument doesn't contain newlines/control chars, but subprocess handles this safely
  2. Enhancement opportunity: Could add input sanitization logging for debugging, but not necessary for functionality

🏆 Recommendations

  1. Merge immediately - This fixes a critical bug affecting all Gemini evaluations
  2. Consider: Add a simple integration test specifically for special character handling in prompts
  3. Follow-up: The evaluation framework enhancements open opportunities for richer testing scenarios

💎 Summary

This PR successfully:

  • Fixes the core issue: Gemini CLI now invokes correctly using positional arguments
  • Improves security: Eliminates shell injection risks through direct process execution
  • Enhances reliability: More robust process execution pattern
  • Adds valuable features: Custom evaluation capabilities with Claude fallback
  • Maintains consistency: Follows established codebase patterns
  • Includes comprehensive tests: Good coverage for new evaluation features

Verdict: This is a well-crafted PR that addresses the immediate problem while adding substantial value to the evaluation framework. Ready for merge! 🚀


- Add -m flag support to pass model parameter to gemini CLI
- Follows same pattern as other coders (e.g., opencode)
- Tested with gemini-2.5-flash model
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When MCP servers are configured in .gemini/settings.json, the gemini CLI
0.18.0 ignores positional arguments and enters interactive mode instead
of processing the prompt. This causes the evaluation to hang indefinitely.

The fix changes from using a positional argument:
  gemini "prompt text"

To using the -p flag:
  gemini -p "prompt text"

This workaround allows gemini to correctly process prompts even when MCP
servers are configured.

Tested with artl-mcp server configured and verified that prompts are now
processed correctly instead of hanging.
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PR Code Review: Fix GeminiCoder CLI invocation ✅

Conducting comprehensive code review focusing on code quality, potential bugs, performance, security, and test coverage.

Review Checklist:

  • Read repository guidelines and understand codebase structure
  • Review core Gemini coder CLI invocation fix
  • Examine evaluation framework enhancements and new features
  • Check test coverage and new test files
  • Assess security implications of CLI changes
  • Look for performance considerations
  • Provide overall feedback and recommendations

🎯 Overall Assessment: APPROVED

This is a high-quality PR that addresses a critical bug while introducing valuable evaluation framework enhancements. The changes are well-implemented and follow project best practices.

✅ Core Gemini CLI Fix Analysis

The main fix in src/metacoder/coders/gemini.py:145 is excellent and represents a significant improvement:

Before:

command = ["sh", "-c", f'echo "{text}" | gemini']

After:

command = ["gemini"]
# Add model parameter if specified
if self.params and self.params.get("model"):
    command.extend(["-m", self.params["model"]])
# Use -p flag for prompt (works with MCP servers, positional doesn't)
command.extend(["-p", text])

Benefits:

  • Security: Eliminates shell injection vulnerabilities from unescaped quotes/special characters in f-string interpolation
  • Reliability: Direct process invocation is more robust than shell command composition
  • Consistency: Aligns with other coders in the codebase (Claude, Goose, Qwen all use direct execution)
  • Simplicity: Removes unnecessary shell wrapper and piping complexity
  • Performance: Direct execution is faster, eliminates shell overhead
  • MCP Compatibility: Uses -p flag which works properly with MCP servers

🔍 Security Analysis

Excellent security improvements:

  • Before: High shell injection risk from unescaped user input in f-string interpolation
  • After: Safe argument passing via subprocess list format
  • Verification: Checked base_coder.py:178-187 - uses subprocess.Popen(command, ...) which safely handles arguments when passed as list
  • No escaping needed: Arguments are passed directly to the process, not through a shell

🧪 Test Coverage Assessment

Strong test coverage:

  • tests/test_custom_geval.py - Comprehensive validation for new MetricConfig features
  • tests/test_evals/test_claude_judge.py - ClaudeJudge fallback mechanism testing
  • ✅ Integration tests in tests/test_coders/test_coders_basic.py include Gemini coder testing
  • ✅ UTF-8 handling tests ensure international character support

ClaudeJudge Fallback Testing:
The evaluation system has sophisticated multi-tier fallback:

  1. Primary: OpenAI GPT-4 for evaluations
  2. Fallback 1: If OpenAI fails, downgrade to ClaudeJudge (Claude Sonnet 4)
  3. Fallback 2: If Claude also fails, downgrade to DummyMetric

Tests verify graceful degradation at each level with proper error handling and logging.

🚀 Evaluation Framework Enhancements

Excellent additions:

  1. Custom GEval Support (eval_model.py:13-45):

    • Flexible rubric, criteria, and evaluation_steps configuration
    • Proper mutual exclusivity validation with clear error messages
    • Good Pydantic model design with comprehensive validation
  2. ClaudeJudge Implementation (judges.py:13-90):

    • Clean integration with DeepEval framework
    • Proper API key handling and quota checking via has_available_quota()
    • Good fallback mechanisms for evaluation reliability
  3. Enhanced Evaluation Runner (runner.py:392-421):

    • Graceful degradation when models unavailable
    • Comprehensive logging for debugging evaluation issues
    • Robust error handling for API failures

⚡ Performance Considerations

  • Improvement: Direct process execution eliminates shell overhead
  • Memory: Removes intermediate pipe/echo processes
  • Error handling: Better error propagation without shell wrapper interference
  • MCP Performance: The -p flag approach works correctly with MCP servers vs positional args

📋 Code Quality

Excellent adherence to project standards:

  • ✅ Consistent with existing coder implementations
  • ✅ Proper error handling and logging patterns
  • ✅ Good type hints and documentation
  • ✅ Follows established patterns (BaseCoder inheritance, MCP integration)
  • ✅ Clean separation of concerns in evaluation framework

⚠️ Minor Observations

  1. Non-blocking: No validation that text argument doesn't contain newlines/control chars, but subprocess handles this safely
  2. Enhancement opportunity: Could add input sanitization logging for debugging, but not necessary for functionality

🏆 Recommendations

  1. Merge immediately - This fixes a critical bug affecting all Gemini evaluations
  2. Consider: Add a simple integration test specifically for special character handling in prompts
  3. Follow-up: The evaluation framework enhancements open opportunities for richer testing scenarios

💎 Summary

This PR successfully:

  • Fixes the core issue: Gemini CLI now invokes correctly using -p flag instead of shell piping
  • Improves security: Eliminates shell injection risks through direct process execution
  • Enhances reliability: More robust process execution pattern with proper MCP server support
  • Adds valuable features: Custom evaluation capabilities with Claude fallback
  • Maintains consistency: Follows established codebase patterns
  • Includes comprehensive tests: Good coverage for new evaluation features

Verdict: This is a well-crafted PR that addresses the immediate problem while adding substantial value to the evaluation framework. Ready for merge! 🚀

Gemini CLI restricts MCP tool file access to workspace directories.
Without --include-directories, MCP tools like read_file fail with:
"File path must be within one of the workspace directories"

This causes gemini to ask for clarification instead of completing tasks
in headless mode with -p flag.

Solution: Pass --include-directories pointing to the workdir, allowing
MCP tools to access files in the evaluation workspace.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>
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PR Code Review: Fix GeminiCoder CLI invocation ✅

Conducting comprehensive code review focusing on code quality, potential bugs, performance, security, and test coverage.

Review Checklist:

  • Read repository guidelines and understand codebase structure
  • Review core Gemini coder CLI invocation fix
  • Examine evaluation framework enhancements and new features
  • Check test coverage and new test files
  • Assess security implications of CLI changes
  • Look for performance considerations
  • Provide overall feedback and recommendations

🎯 Overall Assessment: APPROVED

This is a high-quality PR that addresses a critical bug while introducing valuable evaluation framework enhancements. The changes are well-implemented and follow project best practices.

✅ Core Gemini CLI Fix Analysis

The main fix in src/metacoder/coders/gemini.py:145 is excellent and represents a significant improvement:

Before:

command = ["sh", "-c", f'echo "{text}" | gemini']

After:

command = ["gemini"]
# Add model parameter if specified
if self.params and self.params.get("model"):
    command.extend(["-m", self.params["model"]])
# Use -p flag for prompt (works with MCP servers, positional doesn't)
command.extend(["-p", text])

Benefits:

  • Security: Eliminates shell injection vulnerabilities from unescaped quotes/special characters in f-string interpolation
  • Reliability: Direct process invocation is more robust than shell command composition
  • Consistency: Aligns with other coders in the codebase (Claude, Goose, Qwen all use direct execution)
  • Simplicity: Removes unnecessary shell wrapper and piping complexity
  • Performance: Direct execution is faster, eliminates shell overhead
  • MCP Compatibility: Uses -p flag which works properly with MCP servers

🔍 Security Analysis

Excellent security improvements:

  • Before: High shell injection risk from unescaped user input in f-string interpolation
  • After: Safe argument passing via subprocess list format
  • Verification: Checked base_coder.py:178-187 - uses subprocess.Popen(command, ...) which safely handles arguments when passed as list
  • No escaping needed: Arguments are passed directly to the process, not through a shell

🧪 Test Coverage Assessment

Strong test coverage:

  • tests/test_custom_geval.py - Comprehensive validation for new MetricConfig features
  • tests/test_evals/test_claude_judge.py - ClaudeJudge fallback mechanism testing
  • ✅ Integration tests in tests/test_coders/test_coders_basic.py include Gemini coder testing
  • ✅ UTF-8 handling tests ensure international character support

ClaudeJudge Fallback Testing:
The evaluation system has sophisticated multi-tier fallback:

  1. Primary: OpenAI GPT-4 for evaluations
  2. Fallback 1: If OpenAI fails, downgrade to ClaudeJudge (Claude Sonnet 4)
  3. Fallback 2: If Claude also fails, downgrade to DummyMetric

Tests verify graceful degradation at each level with proper error handling and logging.

🚀 Evaluation Framework Enhancements

Excellent additions:

  1. Custom GEval Support (eval_model.py:13-45):

    • Flexible rubric, criteria, and evaluation_steps configuration
    • Proper mutual exclusivity validation with clear error messages
    • Good Pydantic model design with comprehensive validation
  2. ClaudeJudge Implementation (judges.py:13-90):

    • Clean integration with DeepEval framework
    • Proper API key handling and quota checking via has_available_quota()
    • Good fallback mechanisms for evaluation reliability
  3. Enhanced Evaluation Runner (runner.py:392-421):

    • Graceful degradation when models unavailable
    • Comprehensive logging for debugging evaluation issues
    • Robust error handling for API failures

⚡ Performance Considerations

  • Improvement: Direct process execution eliminates shell overhead
  • Memory: Removes intermediate pipe/echo processes
  • Error handling: Better error propagation without shell wrapper interference
  • MCP Performance: The -p flag approach works correctly with MCP servers vs positional args

📋 Code Quality

Excellent adherence to project standards:

  • ✅ Consistent with existing coder implementations
  • ✅ Proper error handling and logging patterns
  • ✅ Good type hints and documentation
  • ✅ Follows established patterns (BaseCoder inheritance, MCP integration)
  • ✅ Clean separation of concerns in evaluation framework

⚠️ Minor Observations

  1. Non-blocking: No validation that text argument doesn't contain newlines/control chars, but subprocess handles this safely
  2. Enhancement opportunity: Could add input sanitization logging for debugging, but not necessary for functionality

🏆 Recommendations

  1. Merge immediately - This fixes a critical bug affecting all Gemini evaluations
  2. Consider: Add a simple integration test specifically for special character handling in prompts
  3. Follow-up: The evaluation framework enhancements open opportunities for richer testing scenarios

💎 Summary

This PR successfully:

  • Fixes the core issue: Gemini CLI now invokes correctly using -p flag instead of shell piping
  • Improves security: Eliminates shell injection risks through direct process execution
  • Enhances reliability: More robust process execution pattern with proper MCP server support
  • Adds valuable features: Custom evaluation capabilities with Claude fallback
  • Maintains consistency: Follows established codebase patterns
  • Includes comprehensive tests: Good coverage for new evaluation features

Verdict: This is a well-crafted PR that addresses the immediate problem while adding substantial value to the evaluation framework. Ready for merge! 🚀


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Review Checklist:

  • Read repository guidelines and understand codebase structure
  • Review core Gemini coder CLI invocation fix
  • Examine evaluation framework enhancements and new features
  • Check test coverage and new test files
  • Assess security implications of CLI changes
  • Look for performance considerations
  • Provide overall feedback and recommendations

🎯 Overall Assessment: APPROVED

This is a high-quality PR that addresses a critical bug while introducing valuable evaluation framework enhancements. The changes are well-implemented and follow project best practices.

✅ Core Gemini CLI Fix Analysis

The main fix in src/metacoder/coders/gemini.py:145 is excellent and represents a significant improvement:

Before:

command = ["sh", "-c", f'echo "{text}" | gemini']

After:

command = ["gemini"]
# Add model parameter if specified
if self.params and self.params.get("model"):
    command.extend(["-m", self.params["model"]])
# Use -p flag for prompt (works with MCP servers, positional doesn't)
command.extend(["-p", text])

Benefits:

  • Security: Eliminates shell injection vulnerabilities from unescaped quotes/special characters in f-string interpolation
  • Reliability: Direct process invocation is more robust than shell command composition
  • Consistency: Aligns with other coders in the codebase (Claude, Goose, Qwen all use direct execution)
  • Simplicity: Removes unnecessary shell wrapper and piping complexity
  • Performance: Direct execution is faster, eliminates shell overhead
  • MCP Compatibility: Uses -p flag which works properly with MCP servers

🔍 Security Analysis

Excellent security improvements:

  • Before: High shell injection risk from unescaped user input in f-string interpolation
  • After: Safe argument passing via subprocess list format
  • Verification: Checked base_coder.py:178-187 - uses subprocess.Popen(command, ...) which safely handles arguments when passed as list
  • No escaping needed: Arguments are passed directly to the process, not through a shell

🧪 Test Coverage Assessment

Strong test coverage:

  • tests/test_custom_geval.py - Comprehensive validation for new MetricConfig features
  • tests/test_evals/test_claude_judge.py - ClaudeJudge fallback mechanism testing
  • ✅ Integration tests in tests/test_coders/test_coders_basic.py include Gemini coder testing
  • ✅ UTF-8 handling tests ensure international character support

ClaudeJudge Fallback Testing:
The evaluation system has sophisticated multi-tier fallback:

  1. Primary: OpenAI GPT-4 for evaluations
  2. Fallback 1: If OpenAI fails, downgrade to ClaudeJudge (Claude Sonnet 4)
  3. Fallback 2: If Claude also fails, downgrade to DummyMetric

Tests verify graceful degradation at each level with proper error handling and logging.

🚀 Evaluation Framework Enhancements

Excellent additions:

  1. Custom GEval Support (eval_model.py:13-45):

    • Flexible rubric, criteria, and evaluation_steps configuration
    • Proper mutual exclusivity validation with clear error messages
    • Good Pydantic model design with comprehensive validation
  2. ClaudeJudge Implementation (judges.py:13-90):

    • Clean integration with DeepEval framework
    • Proper API key handling and quota checking via has_available_quota()
    • Good fallback mechanisms for evaluation reliability
  3. Enhanced Evaluation Runner (runner.py:392-421):

    • Graceful degradation when models unavailable
    • Comprehensive logging for debugging evaluation issues
    • Robust error handling for API failures

⚡ Performance Considerations

  • Improvement: Direct process execution eliminates shell overhead
  • Memory: Removes intermediate pipe/echo processes
  • Error handling: Better error propagation without shell wrapper interference
  • MCP Performance: The -p flag approach works correctly with MCP servers vs positional args

📋 Code Quality

Excellent adherence to project standards:

  • ✅ Consistent with existing coder implementations
  • ✅ Proper error handling and logging patterns
  • ✅ Good type hints and documentation
  • ✅ Follows established patterns (BaseCoder inheritance, MCP integration)
  • ✅ Clean separation of concerns in evaluation framework

⚠️ Minor Observations

  1. Non-blocking: No validation that text argument doesn't contain newlines/control chars, but subprocess handles this safely
  2. Enhancement opportunity: Could add input sanitization logging for debugging, but not necessary for functionality

🏆 Recommendations

  1. Merge immediately - This fixes a critical bug affecting all Gemini evaluations
  2. Consider: Add a simple integration test specifically for special character handling in prompts
  3. Follow-up: The evaluation framework enhancements open opportunities for richer testing scenarios

💎 Summary

This PR successfully:

  • Fixes the core issue: Gemini CLI now invokes correctly using -p flag instead of shell piping
  • Improves security: Eliminates shell injection risks through direct process execution
  • Enhances reliability: More robust process execution pattern with proper MCP server support
  • Adds valuable features: Custom evaluation capabilities with Claude fallback
  • Maintains consistency: Follows established codebase patterns
  • Includes comprehensive tests: Good coverage for new evaluation features

Verdict: This is a well-crafted PR that addresses the immediate problem while adding substantial value to the evaluation framework. Ready for merge! 🚀


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PR Code Review: Fix GeminiCoder CLI invocation ✅

Conducting comprehensive code review focusing on code quality, potential bugs, performance, security, and test coverage.

Review Checklist:

  • Read repository guidelines and understand codebase structure
  • Review core Gemini coder CLI invocation fix
  • Examine evaluation framework enhancements and new features
  • Check test coverage and new test files
  • Assess security implications of CLI changes
  • Look for performance considerations
  • Provide overall feedback and recommendations

🎯 Overall Assessment: APPROVED

This is a high-quality PR that addresses a critical bug while introducing valuable evaluation framework enhancements. The changes are well-implemented and follow project best practices.

✅ Core Gemini CLI Fix Analysis

The main fix in src/metacoder/coders/gemini.py:145 is excellent and represents a significant improvement:

Before:

command = ["sh", "-c", f'echo "{text}" | gemini']

After:

command = ["gemini"]
# Add model parameter if specified
if self.params and self.params.get("model"):
    command.extend(["-m", self.params["model"]])
# Use -p flag for prompt (works with MCP servers, positional doesn't)
command.extend(["-p", text])

Benefits:

  • Security: Eliminates shell injection vulnerabilities from unescaped quotes/special characters in f-string interpolation
  • Reliability: Direct process invocation is more robust than shell command composition
  • Consistency: Aligns with other coders in the codebase (Claude, Goose, Qwen all use direct execution)
  • Simplicity: Removes unnecessary shell wrapper and piping complexity
  • Performance: Direct execution is faster, eliminates shell overhead
  • MCP Compatibility: Uses -p flag which works properly with MCP servers

🔍 Security Analysis

Excellent security improvements:

  • Before: High shell injection risk from unescaped user input in f-string interpolation
  • After: Safe argument passing via subprocess list format
  • Verification: Checked base_coder.py:178-187 - uses subprocess.Popen(command, ...) which safely handles arguments when passed as list
  • No escaping needed: Arguments are passed directly to the process, not through a shell

🧪 Test Coverage Assessment

Strong test coverage:

  • tests/test_custom_geval.py - Comprehensive validation for new MetricConfig features
  • tests/test_evals/test_claude_judge.py - ClaudeJudge fallback mechanism testing
  • ✅ Integration tests in tests/test_coders/test_coders_basic.py include Gemini coder testing
  • ✅ UTF-8 handling tests ensure international character support

ClaudeJudge Fallback Testing:
The evaluation system has sophisticated multi-tier fallback:

  1. Primary: OpenAI GPT-4 for evaluations
  2. Fallback 1: If OpenAI fails, downgrade to ClaudeJudge (Claude Sonnet 4)
  3. Fallback 2: If Claude also fails, downgrade to DummyMetric

Tests verify graceful degradation at each level with proper error handling and logging.

🚀 Evaluation Framework Enhancements

Excellent additions:

  1. Custom GEval Support (eval_model.py:13-45):

    • Flexible rubric, criteria, and evaluation_steps configuration
    • Proper mutual exclusivity validation with clear error messages
    • Good Pydantic model design with comprehensive validation
  2. ClaudeJudge Implementation (judges.py:13-90):

    • Clean integration with DeepEval framework
    • Proper API key handling and quota checking via has_available_quota()
    • Good fallback mechanisms for evaluation reliability
  3. Enhanced Evaluation Runner (runner.py:392-421):

    • Graceful degradation when models unavailable
    • Comprehensive logging for debugging evaluation issues
    • Robust error handling for API failures

⚡ Performance Considerations

  • Improvement: Direct process execution eliminates shell overhead
  • Memory: Removes intermediate pipe/echo processes
  • Error handling: Better error propagation without shell wrapper interference
  • MCP Performance: The -p flag approach works correctly with MCP servers vs positional args

📋 Code Quality

Excellent adherence to project standards:

  • ✅ Consistent with existing coder implementations
  • ✅ Proper error handling and logging patterns
  • ✅ Good type hints and documentation
  • ✅ Follows established patterns (BaseCoder inheritance, MCP integration)
  • ✅ Clean separation of concerns in evaluation framework

⚠️ Minor Observations

  1. Non-blocking: No validation that text argument doesn't contain newlines/control chars, but subprocess handles this safely
  2. Enhancement opportunity: Could add input sanitization logging for debugging, but not necessary for functionality

🏆 Recommendations

  1. Merge immediately - This fixes a critical bug affecting all Gemini evaluations
  2. Consider: Add a simple integration test specifically for special character handling in prompts
  3. Follow-up: The evaluation framework enhancements open opportunities for richer testing scenarios

💎 Summary

This PR successfully:

  • Fixes the core issue: Gemini CLI now invokes correctly using -p flag instead of shell piping
  • Improves security: Eliminates shell injection risks through direct process execution
  • Enhances reliability: More robust process execution pattern with proper MCP server support
  • Adds valuable features: Custom evaluation capabilities with Claude fallback
  • Maintains consistency: Follows established codebase patterns
  • Includes comprehensive tests: Good coverage for new evaluation features

Verdict: This is a well-crafted PR that addresses the immediate problem while adding substantial value to the evaluation framework. Ready for merge! 🚀


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PR Code Review: Fix GeminiCoder CLI invocation ✅

Conducting comprehensive code review focusing on code quality, potential bugs, performance, security, and test coverage.

Review Checklist:

  • Read repository guidelines and understand codebase structure
  • Review core Gemini coder CLI invocation fix
  • Examine evaluation framework enhancements and new features
  • Check test coverage and new test files
  • Assess security implications of CLI changes
  • Look for performance considerations
  • Provide overall feedback and recommendations

🎯 Overall Assessment: APPROVED

This is a high-quality PR that addresses a critical bug while introducing valuable evaluation framework enhancements. The changes are well-implemented and follow project best practices.

✅ Core Gemini CLI Fix Analysis

The main fix in src/metacoder/coders/gemini.py:138-150 is excellent and represents a significant improvement:

Before:

command = ["sh", "-c", f'echo "{text}" | gemini']

After:

command = ["gemini"]
# Add model parameter if specified
if self.params and self.params.get("model"):
    command.extend(["-m", self.params["model"]])
# Add workspace directory so MCP tools can access files
command.extend(["--include-directories", str(Path.cwd())])
# Use -p flag for prompt (works with MCP servers, positional doesn't)
command.extend(["-p", text])

Benefits:

  • Security: Eliminates shell injection vulnerabilities from unescaped quotes/special characters in f-string interpolation
  • Reliability: Direct process invocation is more robust than shell command composition
  • Consistency: Aligns with other coders in the codebase (Claude, Goose, Qwen all use direct execution)
  • Simplicity: Removes unnecessary shell wrapper and piping complexity
  • Performance: Direct execution is faster, eliminates shell overhead
  • MCP Compatibility: Uses -p flag which works properly with MCP servers + adds --include-directories for file access

🔍 Security Analysis

Excellent security improvements:

  • Before: High shell injection risk from unescaped user input in f-string interpolation
  • After: Safe argument passing via subprocess list format
  • Verification: Checked base_coder.py:178-187 - uses subprocess.Popen(command, ...) which safely handles arguments when passed as list
  • No escaping needed: Arguments are passed directly to the process, not through a shell

🧪 Test Coverage Assessment

Strong test coverage:

  • tests/test_custom_geval.py - Comprehensive validation for new MetricConfig features with proper mutual exclusivity testing
  • tests/test_evals/test_claude_judge.py - ClaudeJudge fallback mechanism testing
  • ✅ Integration tests in tests/test_coders/test_coders_basic.py include Gemini coder testing
  • ✅ UTF-8 handling tests ensure international character support

ClaudeJudge Fallback Testing:
The evaluation system has sophisticated multi-tier fallback:

  1. Primary: OpenAI GPT-4 for evaluations
  2. Fallback 1: If OpenAI fails, downgrade to ClaudeJudge (Claude Sonnet 4)
  3. Fallback 2: If Claude also fails, downgrade to DummyMetric

Tests in test_claude_judge.py:10-58 and test_claude_judge.py:60-140 verify graceful degradation at each level with proper error handling and logging.

🚀 Evaluation Framework Enhancements

Excellent additions:

  1. Custom GEval Support (eval_model.py:13-50):

    • Flexible rubric, criteria, and evaluation_steps configuration
    • Proper mutual exclusivity validation with clear error messages
    • Good Pydantic model design with comprehensive validation
  2. ClaudeJudge Implementation (judges.py:13-90):

    • Clean integration with DeepEval framework
    • Proper API key handling and quota checking via has_available_quota()
    • Good fallback mechanisms for evaluation reliability
  3. Enhanced Evaluation Runner (runner.py:392-421):

    • Graceful degradation when models unavailable
    • Comprehensive logging for debugging evaluation issues
    • Robust error handling for API failures

⚡ Performance Considerations

  • Improvement: Direct process execution eliminates shell overhead
  • Memory: Removes intermediate pipe/echo processes
  • Error handling: Better error propagation without shell wrapper interference
  • MCP Performance: The -p flag approach works correctly with MCP servers vs positional args

📋 Code Quality

Excellent adherence to project standards:

  • ✅ Consistent with existing coder implementations
  • ✅ Proper error handling and logging patterns
  • ✅ Good type hints and documentation
  • ✅ Follows established patterns (BaseCoder inheritance, MCP integration)
  • ✅ Clean separation of concerns in evaluation framework

⚠️ Minor Observations

  1. Non-blocking: No validation that text argument doesn't contain newlines/control chars, but subprocess handles this safely
  2. Enhancement opportunity: Could add input sanitization logging for debugging, but not necessary for functionality

🏆 Recommendations

  1. Merge immediately - This fixes a critical bug affecting all Gemini evaluations
  2. Consider: Add a simple integration test specifically for special character handling in prompts
  3. Follow-up: The evaluation framework enhancements open opportunities for richer testing scenarios

💎 Summary

This PR successfully:

  • Fixes the core issue: Gemini CLI now invokes correctly using -p flag instead of shell piping
  • Improves security: Eliminates shell injection risks through direct process execution
  • Enhances reliability: More robust process execution pattern with proper MCP server support
  • Adds valuable features: Custom evaluation capabilities with Claude fallback
  • Maintains consistency: Follows established codebase patterns
  • Includes comprehensive tests: Good coverage for new evaluation features

Verdict: This is a well-crafted PR that addresses the immediate problem while adding substantial value to the evaluation framework. Ready for merge! 🚀


justaddcoffee and others added 4 commits December 4, 2025 10:28
The gemini CLI was running in interactive mode by default, waiting for
additional input after processing the prompt. Adding --output-format text
enables non-interactive/headless mode, allowing gemini to exit after
completing the prompt.

This fixes the evaluation hanging issue where gemini would output
'Okay, my setup is complete. I'm ready for your first command.'
and wait indefinitely for stdin input.
The gemini CLI was hanging indefinitely because it was entering
interactive mode when invoked with the -p flag. This fix switches
to using positional arguments instead, which causes gemini to exit
after processing the prompt.

Changes:
- Modified gemini.py to pass prompt as positional argument
- Removed -p flag usage
- Updated log message to reflect new approach

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codex with the correct arguments:
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🎯 Overall Assessment: APPROVED

This is a high-quality PR that addresses a critical bug while introducing valuable evaluation framework enhancements. The changes are well-implemented and follow project best practices.

✅ Core Gemini CLI Fix Analysis

The main fix in src/metacoder/coders/gemini.py:138-150 is excellent and represents a significant improvement:

Before:

command = ["sh", "-c", f'echo "{text}" | gemini']

After:

command = ["gemini"]
# Add model parameter if specified
if self.params and self.params.get("model"):
    command.extend(["-m", self.params["model"]])
# Add workspace directory so MCP tools can access files
command.extend(["--include-directories", str(Path.cwd())])
# Use -p flag for prompt (works with MCP servers, positional doesn't)
command.extend(["-p", text])

Benefits:

  • Security: Eliminates shell injection vulnerabilities from unescaped quotes/special characters in f-string interpolation
  • Reliability: Direct process invocation is more robust than shell command composition
  • Consistency: Aligns with other coders in the codebase (Claude, Goose, Qwen all use direct execution)
  • Simplicity: Removes unnecessary shell wrapper and piping complexity
  • Performance: Direct execution is faster, eliminates shell overhead
  • MCP Compatibility: Uses -p flag which works properly with MCP servers + adds --include-directories for file access

🔍 Security Analysis

Excellent security improvements:

  • Before: High shell injection risk from unescaped user input in f-string interpolation
  • After: Safe argument passing via subprocess list format
  • Verification: Checked base_coder.py:178-187 - uses subprocess.Popen(command, ...) which safely handles arguments when passed as list
  • No escaping needed: Arguments are passed directly to the process, not through a shell

🧪 Test Coverage Assessment

Strong test coverage:

  • tests/test_custom_geval.py - Comprehensive validation for new MetricConfig features with proper mutual exclusivity testing
  • tests/test_evals/test_claude_judge.py - ClaudeJudge fallback mechanism testing
  • ✅ Integration tests in tests/test_coders/test_coders_basic.py include Gemini coder testing
  • ✅ UTF-8 handling tests ensure international character support

ClaudeJudge Fallback Testing:
The evaluation system has sophisticated multi-tier fallback:

  1. Primary: OpenAI GPT-4 for evaluations
  2. Fallback 1: If OpenAI fails, downgrade to ClaudeJudge (Claude Sonnet 4)
  3. Fallback 2: If Claude also fails, downgrade to DummyMetric

Tests in test_claude_judge.py:10-58 and test_claude_judge.py:60-140 verify graceful degradation at each level with proper error handling and logging.

🚀 Evaluation Framework Enhancements

Excellent additions:

  1. Custom GEval Support (eval_model.py:13-50):

    • Flexible rubric, criteria, and evaluation_steps configuration
    • Proper mutual exclusivity validation with clear error messages
    • Good Pydantic model design with comprehensive validation
  2. ClaudeJudge Implementation (judges.py:13-90):

    • Clean integration with DeepEval framework
    • Proper API key handling and quota checking via has_available_quota()
    • Good fallback mechanisms for evaluation reliability
  3. Enhanced Evaluation Runner (runner.py:392-421):

    • Graceful degradation when models unavailable
    • Comprehensive logging for debugging evaluation issues
    • Robust error handling for API failures

⚡ Performance Considerations

  • Improvement: Direct process execution eliminates shell overhead
  • Memory: Removes intermediate pipe/echo processes
  • Error handling: Better error propagation without shell wrapper interference
  • MCP Performance: The -p flag approach works correctly with MCP servers vs positional args

📋 Code Quality

Excellent adherence to project standards:

  • ✅ Consistent with existing coder implementations
  • ✅ Proper error handling and logging patterns
  • ✅ Good type hints and documentation
  • ✅ Follows established patterns (BaseCoder inheritance, MCP integration)
  • ✅ Clean separation of concerns in evaluation framework

⚠️ Minor Observations

  1. Non-blocking: No validation that text argument doesn't contain newlines/control chars, but subprocess handles this safely
  2. Enhancement opportunity: Could add input sanitization logging for debugging, but not necessary for functionality

🏆 Recommendations

  1. Merge immediately - This fixes a critical bug affecting all Gemini evaluations
  2. Consider: Add a simple integration test specifically for special character handling in prompts
  3. Follow-up: The evaluation framework enhancements open opportunities for richer testing scenarios

💎 Summary

This PR successfully:

  • Fixes the core issue: Gemini CLI now invokes correctly using -p flag instead of shell piping
  • Improves security: Eliminates shell injection risks through direct process execution
  • Enhances reliability: More robust process execution pattern with proper MCP server support
  • Adds valuable features: Custom evaluation capabilities with Claude fallback
  • Maintains consistency: Follows established codebase patterns
  • Includes comprehensive tests: Good coverage for new evaluation features

Verdict: This is a well-crafted PR that addresses the immediate problem while adding substantial value to the evaluation framework. Ready for merge! 🚀


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PR Code Review: Fix GeminiCoder CLI invocation ✅

Conducting comprehensive code review focusing on code quality, potential bugs, performance, security, and test coverage.

Review Checklist:

  • Read repository guidelines and understand codebase structure
  • Review core Gemini coder CLI invocation fix
  • Examine evaluation framework enhancements and new features
  • Check test coverage and new test files
  • Assess security implications of CLI changes
  • Look for performance considerations
  • Provide overall feedback and recommendations

🎯 Overall Assessment: APPROVED

This is a high-quality PR that addresses a critical bug while introducing valuable evaluation framework enhancements. The changes are well-implemented and follow project best practices.

✅ Core Gemini CLI Fix Analysis

The main fix in src/metacoder/coders/gemini.py:138-150 is excellent and represents a significant improvement:

Before:

command = ["sh", "-c", f'echo "{text}" | gemini']

After:

command = ["gemini"]
# Add model parameter if specified
if self.params and self.params.get("model"):
    command.extend(["-m", self.params["model"]])
# Add workspace directory so MCP tools can access files
command.extend(["--include-directories", str(Path.cwd())])
# Use -p flag for prompt (works with MCP servers, positional doesn't)
command.extend(["-p", text])

Benefits:

  • Security: Eliminates shell injection vulnerabilities from unescaped quotes/special characters in f-string interpolation
  • Reliability: Direct process invocation is more robust than shell command composition
  • Consistency: Aligns with other coders in the codebase (Claude, Goose, Qwen all use direct execution)
  • Simplicity: Removes unnecessary shell wrapper and piping complexity
  • Performance: Direct execution is faster, eliminates shell overhead
  • MCP Compatibility: Uses -p flag which works properly with MCP servers + adds --include-directories for file access

🔍 Security Analysis

Excellent security improvements:

  • Before: High shell injection risk from unescaped user input in f-string interpolation
  • After: Safe argument passing via subprocess list format
  • Verification: Checked base_coder.py:178-187 - uses subprocess.Popen(command, ...) which safely handles arguments when passed as list
  • No escaping needed: Arguments are passed directly to the process, not through a shell

🧪 Test Coverage Assessment

Strong test coverage:

  • tests/test_custom_geval.py - Comprehensive validation for new MetricConfig features with proper mutual exclusivity testing
  • tests/test_evals/test_claude_judge.py - ClaudeJudge fallback mechanism testing
  • ✅ Integration tests in tests/test_coders/test_coders_basic.py include Gemini coder testing
  • ✅ UTF-8 handling tests ensure international character support

ClaudeJudge Fallback Testing:
The evaluation system has sophisticated multi-tier fallback:

  1. Primary: OpenAI GPT-4 for evaluations
  2. Fallback 1: If OpenAI fails, downgrade to ClaudeJudge (Claude Sonnet 4)
  3. Fallback 2: If Claude also fails, downgrade to DummyMetric

Tests in test_claude_judge.py:10-58 and test_claude_judge.py:60-140 verify graceful degradation at each level with proper error handling and logging.

🚀 Evaluation Framework Enhancements

Excellent additions:

  1. Custom GEval Support (eval_model.py:13-50):

    • Flexible rubric, criteria, and evaluation_steps configuration
    • Proper mutual exclusivity validation with clear error messages
    • Good Pydantic model design with comprehensive validation
  2. ClaudeJudge Implementation (judges.py:13-90):

    • Clean integration with DeepEval framework
    • Proper API key handling and quota checking via has_available_quota()
    • Good fallback mechanisms for evaluation reliability
  3. Enhanced Evaluation Runner (runner.py:392-421):

    • Graceful degradation when models unavailable
    • Comprehensive logging for debugging evaluation issues
    • Robust error handling for API failures

⚡ Performance Considerations

  • Improvement: Direct process execution eliminates shell overhead
  • Memory: Removes intermediate pipe/echo processes
  • Error handling: Better error propagation without shell wrapper interference
  • MCP Performance: The -p flag approach works correctly with MCP servers vs positional args

📋 Code Quality

Excellent adherence to project standards:

  • ✅ Consistent with existing coder implementations
  • ✅ Proper error handling and logging patterns
  • ✅ Good type hints and documentation
  • ✅ Follows established patterns (BaseCoder inheritance, MCP integration)
  • ✅ Clean separation of concerns in evaluation framework

⚠️ Minor Observations

  1. Non-blocking: No validation that text argument doesn't contain newlines/control chars, but subprocess handles this safely
  2. Enhancement opportunity: Could add input sanitization logging for debugging, but not necessary for functionality

🏆 Recommendations

  1. Merge immediately - This fixes a critical bug affecting all Gemini evaluations
  2. Consider: Add a simple integration test specifically for special character handling in prompts
  3. Follow-up: The evaluation framework enhancements open opportunities for richer testing scenarios

💎 Summary

This PR successfully:

  • Fixes the core issue: Gemini CLI now invokes correctly using -p flag instead of shell piping
  • Improves security: Eliminates shell injection risks through direct process execution
  • Enhances reliability: More robust process execution pattern with proper MCP server support
  • Adds valuable features: Custom evaluation capabilities with Claude fallback
  • Maintains consistency: Follows established codebase patterns
  • Includes comprehensive tests: Good coverage for new evaluation features

Verdict: This is a well-crafted PR that addresses the immediate problem while adding substantial value to the evaluation framework. Ready for merge! 🚀


- Add supports_mcp() classmethod returning True
- Add default_config_paths() for AGENTS.md and .codex/config.toml
- Add mcp_config_to_codex_format() to convert MCPConfig
- Add _generate_toml_config() to create TOML config string
- Update default_config_objects() to create .codex/config.toml with MCP servers
- Update docstring with proper Codex documentation

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PR Code Review: Fix GeminiCoder CLI invocation ✅

Conducting comprehensive code review focusing on code quality, potential bugs, performance, security, and test coverage.

Review Checklist:

  • Read repository guidelines and understand codebase structure
  • Review core Gemini coder CLI invocation fix
  • Examine evaluation framework enhancements and new features
  • Check test coverage and new test files
  • Assess security implications of CLI changes
  • Look for performance considerations
  • Provide overall feedback and recommendations

🎯 Overall Assessment: APPROVED

This is a high-quality PR that addresses a critical bug while introducing valuable evaluation framework enhancements. The changes are well-implemented and follow project best practices.

✅ Core Gemini CLI Fix Analysis

The main fix in src/metacoder/coders/gemini.py:138-150 is excellent and represents a significant improvement:

Before:

command = ["sh", "-c", f'echo "{text}" | gemini']

After:

command = ["gemini"]
# Add model parameter if specified
if self.params and self.params.get("model"):
    command.extend(["-m", self.params["model"]])
# Add workspace directory so MCP tools can access files
command.extend(["--include-directories", str(Path.cwd())])
# Use -p flag for prompt (works with MCP servers, positional doesn't)
command.extend(["-p", text])

Benefits:

  • Security: Eliminates shell injection vulnerabilities from unescaped quotes/special characters in f-string interpolation
  • Reliability: Direct process invocation is more robust than shell command composition
  • Consistency: Aligns with other coders in the codebase (Claude, Goose, Qwen all use direct execution)
  • Simplicity: Removes unnecessary shell wrapper and piping complexity
  • Performance: Direct execution is faster, eliminates shell overhead
  • MCP Compatibility: Uses -p flag which works properly with MCP servers + adds --include-directories for file access

🔍 Security Analysis

Excellent security improvements:

  • Before: High shell injection risk from unescaped user input in f-string interpolation
  • After: Safe argument passing via subprocess list format
  • Verification: Checked base_coder.py:178-187 - uses subprocess.Popen(command, ...) which safely handles arguments when passed as list
  • No escaping needed: Arguments are passed directly to the process, not through a shell

🧪 Test Coverage Assessment

Strong test coverage:

  • tests/test_custom_geval.py - Comprehensive validation for new MetricConfig features with proper mutual exclusivity testing
  • tests/test_evals/test_claude_judge.py - ClaudeJudge fallback mechanism testing
  • ✅ Integration tests in tests/test_coders/test_coders_basic.py include Gemini coder testing
  • ✅ UTF-8 handling tests ensure international character support

ClaudeJudge Fallback Testing:
The evaluation system has sophisticated multi-tier fallback:

  1. Primary: OpenAI GPT-4 for evaluations
  2. Fallback 1: If OpenAI fails, downgrade to ClaudeJudge (Claude Sonnet 4)
  3. Fallback 2: If Claude also fails, downgrade to DummyMetric

Tests in test_claude_judge.py:10-58 and test_claude_judge.py:60-140 verify graceful degradation at each level with proper error handling and logging.

🚀 Evaluation Framework Enhancements

Excellent additions:

  1. Custom GEval Support (eval_model.py:13-50):

    • Flexible rubric, criteria, and evaluation_steps configuration
    • Proper mutual exclusivity validation with clear error messages
    • Good Pydantic model design with comprehensive validation
  2. ClaudeJudge Implementation (judges.py:13-90):

    • Clean integration with DeepEval framework
    • Proper API key handling and quota checking via has_available_quota()
    • Good fallback mechanisms for evaluation reliability
  3. Enhanced Evaluation Runner (runner.py:392-421):

    • Graceful degradation when models unavailable
    • Comprehensive logging for debugging evaluation issues
    • Robust error handling for API failures

⚡ Performance Considerations

  • Improvement: Direct process execution eliminates shell overhead
  • Memory: Removes intermediate pipe/echo processes
  • Error handling: Better error propagation without shell wrapper interference
  • MCP Performance: The -p flag approach works correctly with MCP servers vs positional args

📋 Code Quality

Excellent adherence to project standards:

  • ✅ Consistent with existing coder implementations
  • ✅ Proper error handling and logging patterns
  • ✅ Good type hints and documentation
  • ✅ Follows established patterns (BaseCoder inheritance, MCP integration)
  • ✅ Clean separation of concerns in evaluation framework

⚠️ Minor Observations

  1. Non-blocking: No validation that text argument doesn't contain newlines/control chars, but subprocess handles this safely
  2. Enhancement opportunity: Could add input sanitization logging for debugging, but not necessary for functionality

🏆 Recommendations

  1. Merge immediately - This fixes a critical bug affecting all Gemini evaluations
  2. Consider: Add a simple integration test specifically for special character handling in prompts
  3. Follow-up: The evaluation framework enhancements open opportunities for richer testing scenarios

💎 Summary

This PR successfully:

  • Fixes the core issue: Gemini CLI now invokes correctly using -p flag instead of shell piping
  • Improves security: Eliminates shell injection risks through direct process execution
  • Enhances reliability: More robust process execution pattern with proper MCP server support
  • Adds valuable features: Custom evaluation capabilities with Claude fallback
  • Maintains consistency: Follows established codebase patterns
  • Includes comprehensive tests: Good coverage for new evaluation features

Verdict: This is a well-crafted PR that addresses the immediate problem while adding substantial value to the evaluation framework. Ready for merge! 🚀


Remove HOME=. override that was breaking authentication. Codex CLI
reads .codex/config.toml from the current directory automatically,
so overriding HOME is unnecessary and prevents codex from accessing
OpenAI API credentials.

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PR Code Review: Fix GeminiCoder CLI invocation ✅

Conducting comprehensive code review focusing on code quality, potential bugs, performance, security, and test coverage.

Review Checklist:

  • Read repository guidelines and understand codebase structure
  • Review core Gemini coder CLI invocation fix
  • Examine evaluation framework enhancements and new features
  • Check test coverage and new test files
  • Assess security implications of CLI changes
  • Look for performance considerations
  • Provide overall feedback and recommendations

🎯 Overall Assessment: APPROVED

This is a high-quality PR that addresses a critical bug while introducing valuable evaluation framework enhancements. The changes are well-implemented and follow project best practices.

✅ Core Gemini CLI Fix Analysis

The main fix in src/metacoder/coders/gemini.py:138-150 is excellent and represents a significant improvement:

Before:

command = ["sh", "-c", f'echo "{text}" | gemini']

After:

command = ["gemini"]
# Add model parameter if specified
if self.params and self.params.get("model"):
    command.extend(["-m", self.params["model"]])
# Add workspace directory so MCP tools can access files
command.extend(["--include-directories", str(Path.cwd())])
# Use -p flag for prompt (works with MCP servers, positional doesn't)
command.extend(["-p", text])

Benefits:

  • Security: Eliminates shell injection vulnerabilities from unescaped quotes/special characters in f-string interpolation
  • Reliability: Direct process invocation is more robust than shell command composition
  • Consistency: Aligns with other coders in the codebase (Claude, Goose, Qwen all use direct execution)
  • Simplicity: Removes unnecessary shell wrapper and piping complexity
  • Performance: Direct execution is faster, eliminates shell overhead
  • MCP Compatibility: Uses -p flag which works properly with MCP servers + adds --include-directories for file access

🔍 Security Analysis

Excellent security improvements:

  • Before: High shell injection risk from unescaped user input in f-string interpolation
  • After: Safe argument passing via subprocess list format
  • Verification: Checked base_coder.py:178-187 - uses subprocess.Popen(command, ...) which safely handles arguments when passed as list
  • No escaping needed: Arguments are passed directly to the process, not through a shell

🧪 Test Coverage Assessment

Strong test coverage:

  • tests/test_custom_geval.py - Comprehensive validation for new MetricConfig features with proper mutual exclusivity testing
  • tests/test_evals/test_claude_judge.py - ClaudeJudge fallback mechanism testing
  • ✅ Integration tests in tests/test_coders/test_coders_basic.py include Gemini coder testing
  • ✅ UTF-8 handling tests ensure international character support

ClaudeJudge Fallback Testing:
The evaluation system has sophisticated multi-tier fallback:

  1. Primary: OpenAI GPT-4 for evaluations
  2. Fallback 1: If OpenAI fails, downgrade to ClaudeJudge (Claude Sonnet 4)
  3. Fallback 2: If Claude also fails, downgrade to DummyMetric

Tests in test_claude_judge.py:10-58 and test_claude_judge.py:60-140 verify graceful degradation at each level with proper error handling and logging.

🚀 Evaluation Framework Enhancements

Excellent additions:

  1. Custom GEval Support (eval_model.py:13-50):

    • Flexible rubric, criteria, and evaluation_steps configuration
    • Proper mutual exclusivity validation with clear error messages
    • Good Pydantic model design with comprehensive validation
  2. ClaudeJudge Implementation (judges.py:13-90):

    • Clean integration with DeepEval framework
    • Proper API key handling and quota checking via has_available_quota()
    • Good fallback mechanisms for evaluation reliability
  3. Enhanced Evaluation Runner (runner.py:392-421):

    • Graceful degradation when models unavailable
    • Comprehensive logging for debugging evaluation issues
    • Robust error handling for API failures

⚡ Performance Considerations

  • Improvement: Direct process execution eliminates shell overhead
  • Memory: Removes intermediate pipe/echo processes
  • Error handling: Better error propagation without shell wrapper interference
  • MCP Performance: The -p flag approach works correctly with MCP servers vs positional args

📋 Code Quality

Excellent adherence to project standards:

  • ✅ Consistent with existing coder implementations
  • ✅ Proper error handling and logging patterns
  • ✅ Good type hints and documentation
  • ✅ Follows established patterns (BaseCoder inheritance, MCP integration)
  • ✅ Clean separation of concerns in evaluation framework

⚠️ Minor Observations

  1. Non-blocking: No validation that text argument doesn't contain newlines/control chars, but subprocess handles this safely
  2. Enhancement opportunity: Could add input sanitization logging for debugging, but not necessary for functionality

🏆 Recommendations

  1. Merge immediately - This fixes a critical bug affecting all Gemini evaluations
  2. Consider: Add a simple integration test specifically for special character handling in prompts
  3. Follow-up: The evaluation framework enhancements open opportunities for richer testing scenarios

💎 Summary

This PR successfully:

  • Fixes the core issue: Gemini CLI now invokes correctly using -p flag instead of shell piping
  • Improves security: Eliminates shell injection risks through direct process execution
  • Enhances reliability: More robust process execution pattern with proper MCP server support
  • Adds valuable features: Custom evaluation capabilities with Claude fallback
  • Maintains consistency: Follows established codebase patterns
  • Includes comprehensive tests: Good coverage for new evaluation features

Verdict: This is a well-crafted PR that addresses the immediate problem while adding substantial value to the evaluation framework. Ready for merge! 🚀


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