Consider namespacing our commands

[sethladd]

Apparently, /flutter:create-app doesn't work. It was my original understanding that the way we set it up, that /flutter:create-app and /create-app both would work.

Apparently, the way we've set up the extension, only /create-app works.

We should investigate /flutter:create-app to see if that's something we get for free, and how other Google extensions work.

[sethladd]

After taking a look, there's no clear consensus. Some extensions use a prefix, others don't (like nanobanana extension doesn't use prefixes).

I think we can stay unprefixed for now, and work with the gemini cli team on improving discoverability.

[johnpryan]

Reopening since it doesn't seem like the extension is prefixing the commands with /flutter: yet.

[sethladd]

Right, we didn't configure our extension to work with a prefix. We decided not to, after looking at other extensions.

If Gemini CLI changes its UX here and auto-inserts the prefix as a way to run the app, then great! But right now we don't plan to change how we've configured our extension.

[johnpryan]

I don't think Gemini CLI needs to change anything. I want to be able to type /flutter and see the commands. From there, I can hit the tab key and auto-complete the command I want. I don't that Gemini not supporting auto-inserting a prefix is a good reason to diverge from what other extensions like Firebase are doing.

I'm going to politely reopen this again so that we consider adding the prefix for the launch this week.

[sethladd]

Other extensions, such as security and nanobanana do not use prefixes. I think the bug here is in Gemini CLI, in that it should support both short-form and prefixed form. We can leave this open but we're not planning to change our command naming this week.

[johnpryan]

I really don't think Gemini CLI needs to change anything, I can type /firebase: to see all of the firebase commands, like /firebase:consult, /firebase:deploy, and /firebase:init. Alternatively, I can type deploy and press TAB to auto-complete the /firebase:deploy command.

We should try to be consistent between Flutter+Fireabse, even if other extensions like nanobanana aren't, and there doesn't seem to be a technical reason to make our commands prefix-less, as far as I can tell.

We should definitely address this before launch IMO.