Skills

Google has started rolling out a redesigned side panel and settings menu for the Gemini app on Android and iOS. The update introduces chat history filters, replaces Gems with 'Skills,' and consolidates settings into three clear categories.

Google will start migrating Gemini's custom Gems into a new feature called skills on November 17, 2026. Skills, introduced alongside Gemini Spark, let users invoke multiple custom instruction sets at once using a slash command in the prompt box.

Google has released Skills for Gemini in Chrome on desktop, a feature that lets users save and execute frequently used prompts as one-click workflows. Users invoke Skills by typing a forward slash (/) in the prompt box, and the system can operate on the current page or multiple selected tabs.