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User-created custom instruction sets in Google's Gemini app that act as reusable, purpose-built versions of the assistant.
Google will automatically convert Gemini Gems into skills from November 17 for personal accounts, with Workspace businesses following in March 2027. Anyone who shares Gems with colleagues needs a re-sharing plan timed to their own account's date.
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Google is opening Gemini Skills to Workspace as an admin-enabled beta and will retire Gems for business customers from March 2027. Teams that pilot now can test Skills on their own templates while Google's rollout wording and distribution tools are still settling.
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Google will retire Gemini's Gems on November 17, 2026, and auto-migrate each one to a cross-task "skill." Anyone who built a custom assistant keeps the work but loses the sidebar and picks it with a slash instead.
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A WIRED reporter built persona bots of her two editors inside Gemini. The dossier surfaced a true fact about her manager's improv training, and the bot that came with it answered her like a press release.
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Google's Back to School 2026 update lets a user ask Gemini Live for a Deep Research report and talk it through by voice, though Live mode cannot open Gems or Notebooks for as long as that session is running.
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