Jules Tools: A Command Line Companion for Google's Async Coding Agent (developers.googleblog.com)

Google released Jules Tools, a lightweight CLI and TUI companion for Jules — its asynchronous coding agent that integrates with your repositories, understands full project context, and performs tasks like writing tests, implementing features, fixing bugs, bumping deps, and generating audio changelogs. The CLI (installable via npm install -g jules-tools) exposes commands and flags (e.g., jules remote list --repo, jules remote new --repo ... --task "...") so you can spin up tasks, inspect progress, and steer the agent without leaving the terminal. Jules runs work inside temporary remote VMs and synchronizes with your repos, producing pull requests only when you ask it to, and the tools are scriptable — enabling pipelines that pipe TODOs, GitHub issues, or Gemini outputs directly into new Jules tasks. A TUI offers dashboard-style views (/remote) and guided task creation (/new), and an experimental --future flag previews hybrid behaviors. For AI/ML engineers and dev teams this matters because it brings agent-driven development into existing terminal-first workflows and automation stacks: test/train pipelines, repo maintenance, and task triage can be programmatically delegated to an agent while preserving control and auditability (PRs, remote VMs). The CLI/TUI combo lowers friction for iterative coding, makes Jules composable with tools like gh, jq, and Gemini, and signals a hybrid future where cloud agents are tightly embedded into local dev practices.