AI Command Center dla PM-a: Jak pracować z Gemini CLI w praktyce?

Overview

A hands-on demo showing how to use Gemini CLI as an “AI command center” for product management. Demonstrated by Darek (product owner) with Kuba as technical sparring partner / moderator. The goal is to reduce manual PM work by automating context collection, story generation, meeting/transcript analysis, backlog updates and competitor research while keeping a human-in-the-loop.

Goal: automate repetitive PM tasks (context collection, story creation, transcript analysis, backlog updates, competitor research) while maintaining human review and control.

Key technologies and platforms shown

• Gemini CLI / Gemini model (main LLM and agent interface)
• gemini.md — project-level Markdown memory file used as persistent context
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers/tools for integrating external systems
• Integrations demonstrated or discussed: Google Drive, Jira/Atlassian, Miro, Confluence, Figma, Perplexity, WebFetch (web scraping), Google Search
• Editor/UX: VS Code with Gemini CLI in terminal + Markdown previews
• Knowledge management: Obsidian for backlinks/graph-based knowledge & storing MD artifacts
• Local small LLMs via Ollama (e.g., 7B) for sensitive data transformation/encryption
• Other agent environments mentioned: Cloud Code, Cursor CLI, Google “Antigravity”
• Automation platforms: Make / n8n-style automations using MCP triggers

Demo / practical workflow (high-level steps)

1. Maintain a gemini.md file with project vision, stakeholders, strategy — loaded automatically into the agent context as memory.
2. Model business processes as modules (e.g., “Financial Consultation”) stored as MD files.
3. Use reusable Gemini CLI commands/templates (defined in project tom files) to generate user stories from a process module. Commands accept placeholders and file references (uses @ references).
4. Preview generated Markdown user stories in VS Code; stories include description, acceptance criteria, scenarios and a standardized format.
5. Collect meeting transcripts (from Google Drive or other sources) via an MCP server tool and download them into the project.
6. Run an “analyze transcript” command to summarize, extract risks and open questions, and produce a condensed Summary.md.
7. “Enrich” user stories by merging transcript-derived insights into the user stories (iterative — agent proposes changes, PM reviews/edits, then saves).
8. Push selected stories to Jira using the Atlassian MCP tool (add to backlog or create epics).
9. Use Obsidian for longer-term knowledge graphs, backlinks and tagging across artifacts created by Gemini CLI.
10. Run competitor research via Google Search + Perplexity (through MCP), collect links and build SWOT / strategic hypotheses.

Product features, CLI capabilities and limitations

• Commands/templates: Author-defined, reusable prompt schemas with placeholders to make outputs repeatable and consistent (for example, user story templates).
• File-based memory: gemini.md acts as agent memory and is always included in context.
• MCP tools: Connectors to external services (Google Drive, Jira, Miro, etc.) that agent commands can call.
• File preview + Markdown-first workflow: VS Code preview helps QA formatting before sending to backlog.
• Composition: Commands can call other commands and MCP tools. Current limitation: no robust automatic context transfer across commands (subagents/agent orchestration coming soon).
• Agents/Subagents: Planned feature to enable flows and context handoff between components.
• Hooks: Concept discussed of pre-tool hooks (to detect and shield sensitive content before a tool usage).
• Context management: Gemini CLI auto-compresses context when large; manual compression/branching is possible to manage context windows.

Security, privacy and cost considerations

Data governance options:

• Enterprise API keys / enterprise mode (promised non-training / retention guarantees)
• Zero-retention / no-storage tiers on some providers
• Local models (Ollama) for pre-processing/encrypting sensitive fragments before sending to cloud LLMs
• Manual / programmatic redaction or tokenization (keyword-based obfuscation)
• Pre-tool hooks suggested to automatically route sensitive data to local models

Costs:

• Token/subscription costs for cloud LLM use; PM-style usage often modest (many PMs may stay within a minimal subscription)
• Additional paid services (Perplexity, advanced transcription, Atlassian APIs) incur extra fees
• Local models trade token cost for local compute cost

Best practices and recommendations

• Start small: create gemini.md (project memory), document personas/vision, capture key processes, then automate incrementally.
• Use Markdown consistently to structure information and make it LLM-friendly.
• Use templates to standardize user stories and reduce cognitive load for the team.
• Keep a human-in-the-loop: review, iterate and save AI-generated outputs rather than auto-accept.
• Manage context wisely: split knowledge into smaller files/modules, use selective region prompts (VS Code selection) to limit tokens.
• Secure sensitive data: use enterprise retention settings, zero-retention models, local pre-processing, or keyword-based obfuscation.
• Balance standardization vs flexibility: standardize formats (e.g., story template) but allow teams to keep some freedom.

Extensions, automation and roadmap ideas discussed

• Expand discovery / analytics: connect Amplitude, Google Analytics, database replicas via MCP for metric-driven queries.
• Automated competitor SWOT compilation and hypothesis generation (TOWS-like outputs).
• Organizational roll-out: centralizing standards and read-only oversight for managers to get cross-product risk/strategy visibility.
• Agents / subagents: expected to enable better context handoff and multi-step flow automation.
• Pre-tool hooks & content scanning: detect sensitive content and reroute/obfuscate before cloud calls.
• Cross-platform generalization: same pattern can be used with Cloud Code, Cursor, and other CLI/agent platforms.

Guides, tutorials and demos included or implied

• Defining gemini.md as persistent project memory.
• Creating reusable Gemini CLI commands/templates and using placeholders.
• Generating user stories from a business-process module.
• Fetching and saving meeting transcripts via MCP (Google Drive example).
• Summarizing transcripts and enriching user stories with extracted insights.
• Pushing stories into Jira via Atlassian MCP.
• Integrating project files with Obsidian for knowledge graphs and backlinks.
• Example of local model (Ollama) use for sensitive-data handling.
• Tips for context management (Markdown structure, selection-limited prompts, compression).

Product / tool mentions and alternatives

• Gemini (Google) + Gemini CLI
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) — Anthropic-style connectors/tools
• VS Code (developer UX with terminal + Markdown preview)
• Obsidian (knowledge management)
• Jira / Confluence / Miro / Figma connectors
• Perplexity, WebFetch, Google Search
• Ollama (local LLMs) for privacy-sensitive transformations
• Cloud Code, Cursor CLI, Google Antigravity (mentioned as alternatives/platforms)
• Automation platforms: Make / n8n (MCP triggers)

Practical takeaways

• The approach turns time-consuming PM tasks (transcription processing, story creation, competitor research, backlog population) into semi-automated pipelines, freeing time for strategic work.
• Emphasis on iterative prompt engineering and human QA to avoid hallucinations.
• Architecture relies on file-based project memory, modular commands, MCP connectors and eventual agent orchestration for richer automation.

Speakers / sources

• Main presenters: Darek — Product Owner (demonstrator, built the solution); Kuba — colleague / sparring partner (moderator).
• Other people referenced: Grzeszek (co-creator of a related tool), Pragmatic Coders (organization hosting the webinar).
• Technologies/orgs mentioned: Gemini (Google), MCP (Anthropic-style), Ollama, Perplexity, Jira/Atlassian, Obsidian.

Note: this summary can be converted into a step-by-step quickstart checklist (minimum viable setup) to implement a similar Gemini CLI–based PM command center.