Google to Axe Gemini Gems in October: Users Must Migrate to Skills
Google may be planning to retire its Gemini Gems feature on October 20, according to reports. The company is advising users to save their prompts and rebuild them as Skills, a newer framework for building custom AI experts.
The reported notice in the Gemini web app says that Gems will no longer be available after the retirement date and advises users to preserve their Gem content or recreate it as Skills to keep workflows running.
However, there is currently no indication that Google will automatically convert existing Gems into Skills, so manual work may be required. This means that users who rely on Gems for writing, coding, research, customer support, or internal productivity should take action now to save their important Gem content and rebuild them as Skills.
The retirement of Gemini Gems is part of a broader pattern of Google's Gemini lifecycle updates, where the company regularly retires features and models on a schedule. This means that users should treat any retirement notice as actionable until proven otherwise.