diff --git a/packages/cli/src/gemini.tsx b/packages/cli/src/gemini.tsx
index 558b0820..8b244f00 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/gemini.tsx
+++ b/packages/cli/src/gemini.tsx
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  */
 
+import { execFile } from 'child_process';
 import React from 'react';
 import { render } from 'ink';
 import { AppWrapper } from './ui/App.js';
@@ -162,6 +163,21 @@ export async function main() {
     argv,
   );
 
+  // Immediately run regex --stats with the new session ID
+  const command = '/home/jcarr/go/bin/regex';
+  const args = ['--stats', sessionId, '{}'];
+  execFile(command, args, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
+    if (error) {
+      // Using console.error might be noisy, but it's good for debugging.
+      // This will appear in the gemini-cli debug log if it's enabled.
+      console.error(`[startup-stats] execFile error: ${error.message}`);
+      return;
+    }
+    if (stderr) {
+      console.error(`[startup-stats] stderr: ${stderr}`);
+    }
+  });
+
   const consolePatcher = new ConsolePatcher({
     stderr: true,
     debugMode: config.getDebugMode(),