Google

Protocol: google://
Default model: gemini-3.8-flash

Key envGOOGLE_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY

LicensePro

Runs Gemini models on Google’s Gemini API at https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta, with the key sent as x-goog-api-key.

Options

Option	On Google
`max_tokens`	Sent as `generationConfig.maxOutputTokens`
`vision`	On by default for `gemini` models
`body.<path>`	`generateContent` fields, such as `body.generationConfig.thinkingConfig.thinkingBudget=1024`
`header`, `temperature`, `top_p`, `frames`, `timeout`, `insecure`	As listed

Example

CLI Run locally

zshot -t llm_text \
  --llm-format-model "google://?model=gemini-3.8-flash" \
  --llm-format-prompt "Summarize the lead story in one sentence." \
  -f summary.txt https://zshot-cli.com/example_assets/gazette/