qwen_cli_coder

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qwen_cli_coder appeared within days of Google open-sourcing Gemini CLI in June 2025, adapting the codebase to run Qwen models through Alibaba Cloud's DashScope API. It preserved Gemini CLI's grounded-documentation and workflow machinery while adding dynamic MCP server management and multi-agent task coordination, including sub-agent spawning and delegation tools for splitting work across parallel agent instances. The fork documented Qwen-specific authentication and model configuration for developers who wanted Alibaba's models in a Gemini-CLI-style workflow. Active development lasted roughly a week in mid-2025; Alibaba's own Qwen Code fork, released the same month with an official team behind it, made the community fork redundant. It stands as an early example of the fork-and-retarget wave that followed Gemini CLI's open-sourcing.