Google Kills Gems for Gemini Skills

🔥 What happened Google is rolling out "Skills" globally in Gemini — reusable prompt templates triggered by typing "/" in the prompt bar. They fully replace Gems: support ends November 2026 for personal accounts, March 2027 for Workspace customers. The Opal mini-app experiment shuts down simultaneously. 💡 Why it matters Instead of re-prompting every time, you save instructions once and stack them — including reference files like PDFs and images. For teams, that means reproducible workflows instead of prompt tinkering. Gems users get roughly a year to migrate before everything goes dark. ⚡ Our take Google calls it "Skills," but it's really lock-in: pour your workflows into Gemini and you won't switch to OpenAI anytime soon. Smart move — and exactly why engineers should keep their prompts portable.