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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
Curated by Oleksandr Kuzmenko, AI Product EngineerUpdated September 29, 2026Sources cited on every story
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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.