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Google Deprecates Gemini Gems, Migrating Custom Assistants into Skills

Google is shutting down Gemini Gems on November 17, 2026, automatically migrating user-created custom assistants into skills that can be used across different AI tasks. Users will invoke them by entering a forward slash "/" in a task thread to select the skill they want.

September 29, 2026· 2 min read
OKCurated by Oleksandr Kuzmenko, AI Product Engineer·Updated September 29, 2026·Sources cited on every story
AI-assisted · editor-reviewed·How we use AI
Google Deprecates Gemini Gems, Migrating Custom Assistants into Skills

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Google is shutting down Gemini Gems on November 17, 2026, automatically migrating user-created custom assistants into skills that can be used across different AI tasks. Users will invoke them by entering a forward slash "/" in a task thread to select the skill they want.

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