(feat): Add a ToDo tool to track ongoing task lists (#8761)

Co-authored-by: joshualitt <joshualitt@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Tommaso Sciortino <sciortino@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: matt korwel <matt.korwel@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: gemini-cli-robot <gemini-cli-robot@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Jacob MacDonald <jakemac@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Shreya Keshive <skeshive@gmail.com>

packages/cli/src/config/config.ts

@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ export interface CliArgs {
   includeDirectories: string[] | undefined;
   screenReader: boolean | undefined;
   useSmartEdit: boolean | undefined;
+  useWriteTodos: boolean | undefined;
   promptWords: string[] | undefined;
   outputFormat: string | undefined;
 }
@@ -647,6 +648,7 @@ export async function loadCliConfig(
     enableToolOutputTruncation: settings.tools?.enableToolOutputTruncation,
     eventEmitter: appEvents,
     useSmartEdit: argv.useSmartEdit ?? settings.useSmartEdit,
+    useWriteTodos: argv.useWriteTodos ?? settings.useWriteTodos,
     output: {
       format: (argv.outputFormat ?? settings.output?.format) as OutputFormat,
     },

packages/cli/src/config/settingsSchema.ts

@@ -824,6 +824,15 @@ const SETTINGS_SCHEMA = {
     description: 'Enable the smart-edit tool instead of the replace tool.',
     showInDialog: false,
   },
+  useWriteTodos: {
+    type: 'boolean',
+    label: 'Use Write Todos',
+    category: 'Advanced',
+    requiresRestart: false,
+    default: false,
+    description: 'Enable the write_todos_list tool.',
+    showInDialog: false,
+  },
   security: {
     type: 'object',
     label: 'Security',

packages/cli/src/gemini.test.tsx

@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ describe('gemini.tsx main function kitty protocol', () => {
       includeDirectories: undefined,
       screenReader: undefined,
       useSmartEdit: undefined,
+      useWriteTodos: undefined,
       promptWords: undefined,
       outputFormat: undefined,
     });