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Google rolls out 'Skills' in Gemini Chat and will replace Gems
Google is rolling out Skills — reusable, savable instruction templates that were already in Gemini Spark — directly into Gemini Chat globally, and will bring Skills to Google Workspace customers in the coming weeks. Skills now support attaching reference files (plain text, PDFs, images), stacking multiple skills, and will automatically replace users' Gems when Gems are deprecated (individual accounts Nov; Workspace business/enterprise/nonprofit March 2027; Workspace education June 2027); Opal 2 will also be turned down in November.
KEY POINTS
- Google is rolling out Skills — reusable, savable instruction templates that were already in Gemini Spark — directly into Gemini Chat globally, and will bring Skills to Google Workspace customers in the coming weeks.
- Skills now support attaching reference files (plain text, PDFs, images), stacking multiple skills, and will automatically replace users' Gems when Gems are deprecated (individual accounts Nov; Workspace business/enterprise/nonprofit March 2027; Workspace education June 2027); Opal 2 will also be turned down in November.
- The change centralizes reusable task automation inside Gemini, streamlines workflow integration with Workspace, and sets a concrete migration and deprecation timeline for Gems and Opal 2.
WHY IT MATTERS
The change centralizes reusable task automation inside Gemini, streamlines workflow integration with Workspace, and sets a concrete migration and deprecation timeline for Gems and Opal 2.
SOURCES & TIMELINE
2Automate your most repetitive tasks with tailored instructions through skills, which will be replacing Gems. With skills, you can save your most-used instructions once and run them endlessly — so you can skip the repetitive prompting and jump straight to the results. Skills are already available in Gemini Spark, and they will soon replace Gems as the tool for tailoring instructions for specific tasks. Today, we’re …
Google is rolling out "Skills" globally in Gemini chat. Skills are detailed prompts for specific tasks that the AI can help write and refine. They replace Gems, Google's equivalent of OpenAI's Custom GPTs, which OpenAI is also sunsetting. The Skills format originated with Anthropic and is available as an open standard . Users save frequent instructions as a Skill and invoke them by typing "/" plus the Skill name. Ge…