diff --git a/dev-util/gemini-cli/Manifest b/dev-util/gemini-cli/Manifest
index c5898a54b3..4e73b5fcb4 100644
--- a/dev-util/gemini-cli/Manifest
+++ b/dev-util/gemini-cli/Manifest
@@ -1 +1 @@
-DIST gemini-cli-0.35.3.js 695263 BLAKE2B 2b2084d7129506c98d43e85da7b6707ce93adbf370a8ad6a339dcac938e4942527f843c745ad64ff852152e2bbb844657e18c98492a04bb7d309ef6bab3fe074 SHA512 f456365910fe8f69e4ae93127ab0df22c1df6be15940ab5fc7b117c8788eb1d03b7fb6a7c047b80d1affafa4a5b57b11c1fd4f2a135fb8d586482df6490205a6
+DIST gemini-cli-0.36.0.zip 19929725 BLAKE2B 28fb956106eed706f36fd69cac8f176a2483a4d47f4666e9c59718781da5a43a5413ff0f261aab786d6a0a75035c2c1fd3ada321dadf252b85858ff55f3e9d0a SHA512 b6e0bc22e11d1ecc8b341dd782b5e2b9657529a195de25e08f151f26d794312904edef2f0f681761bd9c6fb162d38c6df2ca966edd38d58a57423b3cd70d38f3
diff --git a/dev-util/gemini-cli/gemini-cli-0.35.3.ebuild b/dev-util/gemini-cli/gemini-cli-0.35.3.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index cfa9b95f65..0000000000
--- a/dev-util/gemini-cli/gemini-cli-0.35.3.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-MY_PV="${PV/_pre/-preview}"
-MY_PV="${MY_PV/preview[0-9]*/preview.${MY_PV##*preview}}"
-
-DESCRIPTION="Gemini CLI - a command-line AI workflow tool by Google"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/releases/download/v${MY_PV}/gemini.js -> ${P}.js"
-S="${WORKDIR}"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="-* ~amd64 ~arm64"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	net-libs/nodejs
-"
-
-src_install() {
-	# nodejs defaults to disabling deprecation warnings when running code
-	# from any path containing a node_modules directory. Since we're installing
-	# outside of the realm of npm, explicitly pass an option to disable
-	# deprecation warnings so it behaves the same as it does if installed via
-	# npm. It's proprietary; not like Gentoo users can fix the warnings anyway.
-	sed -i 's/env node/env -S node --no-deprecation/' "${DISTDIR}/${P}.js" || die
-
-	newbin "${DISTDIR}/${P}.js" gemini
-}
diff --git a/dev-util/gemini-cli/gemini-cli-0.36.0.ebuild b/dev-util/gemini-cli/gemini-cli-0.36.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5e3659e134
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/gemini-cli/gemini-cli-0.36.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+MY_PV="${PV/_pre/-preview}"
+MY_PV="${MY_PV/preview[0-9]*/preview.${MY_PV##*preview}}"
+
+DESCRIPTION="Gemini CLI - a command-line AI workflow tool by Google"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/releases/download/v${MY_PV}/gemini-cli-bundle.zip -> ${P}.zip"
+S="${WORKDIR}"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="-* ~amd64 ~arm64"
+
+BDEPEND="app-arch/unzip"
+RDEPEND="
+	net-libs/nodejs
+"
+
+src_install() {
+	insinto /usr/lib/${PN}
+	doins -r .
+
+	fperms +x /usr/lib/${PN}/gemini.js
+	dosym ../lib/${PN}/gemini.js /usr/bin/gemini
+}