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November 10, 2026

Scale customized AI across your team with skills in Google Workspace and Workspace Studio

Following our initial announcement and recent rollout update, skills in Google Workspace — reusable, custom instructions that guide Gemini to apply your team’s rules, templates, and reference files — are now rolling out across Google Workspace Studio and Workspace apps. Here’s how to get started:

  • Create, test, and share skills in Google Workspace Studio and Google Docs: Build skills from scratch, start from new turnkey templates, or edit Markdown-native (SKILL.md) files directly in Google Workspace Studio, and test how they generate email drafts, documents, or presentations before turning them on. You can also draft and collaborate on skills in Google Docs, and share copies of your skills from Workspace Studio so teammates can customize and enable them for their own workflows.
  • Create and edit skills in context across Workspace apps: You can prompt Gemini directly in Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Drive, and Google Chat to create, refine, and test skills without leaving the app you’re working in.
  • Use skills automatically or with an @, and connect them to Studio flows: Once you turn on a skill, Gemini in Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Drive, and Google Chat can automatically recognize when that skill is relevant and apply it to your prompt, or you can invoke one or more skills explicitly at any time with an @mention (including combining multiple skills in a single request). Skills can also trigger Workspace Studio flows configured with a “Start manually” or “On a schedule” starter step.

These capabilities unlock powerful ways to standardize everyday work across your team. For example:

  • A marketing or sales team can maintain approved brand voice, tone, and structure across email drafts in Gmail, proposals in Docs, and pitch decks in Slides.
  • A finance or legal specialist can standardize recurring contract, proposal, or invoice reviews against reference guidelines stored in Google Drive.
  • A project lead can generate recurring status updates grounded in living meeting notes, Chat conversations, and Drive files without re-typing formatting instructions each week.


Create, test, and invoke skills across Google Workspace Studio and Workspace apps

A few things to know for end users:

  • Supported surfaces, mobile access, and language: Creating, editing, testing, and sharing skills are available on the web. Invoking skills is supported on the web in Workspace Studio, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Drive, and Google Chat, as well as in the Google Chat mobile app on Android and iOS. Skills in Workspace are not yet available in Google Sheets or Google Meet, and currently support English prompts and instructions only.
  • How skill sharing and Drive file permissions work in Workspace Studio: Sharing a skill from Workspace Studio gives recipients an independent copy that they can review, customize, and turn on in their own skills library (subsequent edits you make to your skill won’t overwrite copies others have already saved). If your skill references Google Drive files, you’ll also need to share access to those files with recipients.
  • Skills in Workspace are separate from skills and Gems in the Gemini app: Skills created in Workspace do not sync automatically with skills or Gems in the Gemini app, and the upcoming automated migration of remaining Gems in 2027 will convert Gems to draft skills exclusively in the Gemini app — not in Workspace Studio or Workspace apps. Because both environments use the open SKILL.md format, you can manually copy instructions between the Gemini app and Workspace if you want to use a skill in both places. 
  • Impact on automated Workspace Studio flows and transitioning off “Ask a Gem”: As previously announced, you can no longer add new Ask a Gem steps to flows in Workspace Studio. Visit the Help Center to learn more about replacing Gems with skills in Workspace Studio flows.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education
  • Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access

Note that skills in Google Workspace are available only to users age 18 and older.

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