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摘要: Google Gemini starts turning your Gems into skills on November 17

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The notice in the Gemini Gem manager: Gems will start migrat

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Google Gemini starts turning your Gems into skills on November 17

ⓘ Google (screenshot)

The notice in the Gemini Gem manager: Gems will start migrating to skills on November 17, 2026.

Google is retiring Gems in Gemini. From November 17, 2026, custom, premade and shared Gems will be converted to skills automatically, and Gemini already shows the notice to users in Germany. According to Google, skills require the Keep Activity setting and are limited to users over 18. Here is what to check before the switch.

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Google is replacing Gems in Gemini. The custom assistants with saved instructions, available since August 2024, are becoming skills. Gemini already shows a banner above the Gem manager, including in the German interface, saying that Google will start migrating Gems to skills automatically on November 17, 2026, and that they keep working until they are migrated. According to Google's help page, November applies to personal accounts. Workspace business, enterprise and non-profit accounts follow in March 2027, education accounts in June 2027.

What happens automatically

You do not need to do anything. Google says it will "automatically transition your Gems, along with any supported files, to skills." That covers custom, premade and shared Gems. The help page does not say which files are unsupported, and for Gems with knowledge files it advises downloading them first. If you do not want to wait, you can manually recreate your Gems as skills now. The way you use them changes as well. Instead of opening a Gem from the sidebar, you type a slash in the chat and pick a skill, and according to 9to5Google you can combine several at once.

Keep Activity becomes a requirement

Google's skills help page lists two requirements. Skills are only available to people over 18 with a personal Google account, and Keep Activity has to be on. For Gems, Google so far only asks fo

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