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Gemini CLI 0.60 hardens the boundaries around extensions, sandboxes and MCP OAuth

Google’s Gemini CLI 0.60 stable release tightens several places where a coding agent meets the host: extension-driven environment changes now require consent, runtime-altering variables are sanitized, sandbox state is isolated more aggressively, path checks are hardened and MCP OAuth validates the authorization-server issuer.

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