From b09bc6656080d4d12e1d06734aae2ec33af5c1ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shreya Keshive <skeshive@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 10:19:59 -0400
Subject: Adds the user's active file in the IDE to the footer (#4154)

---
 packages/cli/src/config/config.test.ts    |  2 +-
 packages/cli/src/config/config.ts         |  3 ++-
 packages/cli/src/ui/components/Footer.tsx | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'packages/cli/src')

diff --git a/packages/cli/src/config/config.test.ts b/packages/cli/src/config/config.test.ts
index ad8b1d44..5043fd59 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/config/config.test.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/config/config.test.ts
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ describe('loadCliConfig ideMode', () => {
     expect(config.getIdeMode()).toBe(false);
   });
 
-  it('should add __ide_server when ideMode is true', async () => {
+  it('should add _ide_server when ideMode is true', async () => {
     process.argv = ['node', 'script.js', '--ide-mode'];
     const argv = await parseArguments();
     process.env.TERM_PROGRAM = 'vscode';
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/config/config.ts b/packages/cli/src/config/config.ts
index 626f23e1..a5eb327d 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/config/config.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/config/config.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import {
   FileDiscoveryService,
   TelemetryTarget,
   MCPServerConfig,
+  IDE_SERVER_NAME,
 } from '@google/gemini-cli-core';
 import { Settings } from './settings.js';
 
@@ -285,7 +286,7 @@ export async function loadCliConfig(
   }
 
   if (ideMode) {
-    mcpServers['_ide_server'] = new MCPServerConfig(
+    mcpServers[IDE_SERVER_NAME] = new MCPServerConfig(
       undefined, // command
       undefined, // args
       undefined, // env
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/ui/components/Footer.tsx b/packages/cli/src/ui/components/Footer.tsx
index 95904cd9..5524114b 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/ui/components/Footer.tsx
+++ b/packages/cli/src/ui/components/Footer.tsx
@@ -4,10 +4,16 @@
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  */
 
-import React from 'react';
+import React, { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
 import { Box, Text } from 'ink';
 import { Colors } from '../colors.js';
-import { shortenPath, tildeifyPath, tokenLimit } from '@google/gemini-cli-core';
+import {
+  shortenPath,
+  tildeifyPath,
+  tokenLimit,
+  ideContext,
+  ActiveFile,
+} from '@google/gemini-cli-core';
 import { ConsoleSummaryDisplay } from './ConsoleSummaryDisplay.js';
 import process from 'node:process';
 import Gradient from 'ink-gradient';
@@ -43,6 +49,24 @@ export const Footer: React.FC<FooterProps> = ({
   const limit = tokenLimit(model);
   const percentage = promptTokenCount / limit;
 
+  const [activeFile, setActiveFile] = useState<ActiveFile | undefined>(
+    undefined,
+  );
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const updateActiveFile = () => {
+      const currentActiveFile = ideContext.getActiveFileContext();
+      setActiveFile(currentActiveFile);
+    };
+
+    updateActiveFile();
+
+    const unsubscribe = ideContext.subscribeToActiveFile(setActiveFile);
+    return () => {
+      unsubscribe();
+    };
+  }, []);
+
   return (
     <Box marginTop={1} justifyContent="space-between" width="100%">
       <Box>
@@ -59,6 +83,19 @@ export const Footer: React.FC<FooterProps> = ({
             {branchName && <Text color={Colors.Gray}> ({branchName}*)</Text>}
           </Text>
         )}
+        {activeFile && activeFile.filePath && (
+          <Text>
+            <Text color={Colors.Gray}> | </Text>
+            <Text color={Colors.LightBlue}>
+              {shortenPath(tildeifyPath(activeFile.filePath), 70)}
+            </Text>
+            {activeFile.cursor && (
+              <Text color={Colors.Gray}>
+                :{activeFile.cursor.line}:{activeFile.cursor.character}
+              </Text>
+            )}
+          </Text>
+        )}
         {debugMode && (
           <Text color={Colors.AccentRed}>
             {' ' + (debugMessage || '--debug')}
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