Google drops Gems for Skills, joining OpenAI and Anthropic in the shift to agent-ready prompt formats

Google is replacing Gems with "Skills" in Gemini chat. Skills are detailed, reusable prompts that users invoke by typing "/" or that Gemini runs automatically. The format is based on an open standard from Anthropic. Gems will be phased out starting in November, with existing…

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