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    GoogleGemini SkillsAgents

    Gemini chat gets stackable skills and a migration path from Gems

    Google is rolling reusable skills into Gemini chat with slash invocation, reference files and multiple skills combined in one task. Workspace rollout and sharing arrive later. Gems will be retired on different schedules for personal and Workspace accounts, with automatic migration; Google says the separate Labs mini-app experiment Opal will also wind down in November.

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