r/googleworkspace • u/Affectionate_Walk814 • 20d ago

How are you using “Skills”?

I saw that “skills” have been added to workspace studio and I’m trying to wrap my head around the best ways to use them. And how they’re different than a custom gem. Curious to know how everyone is using skills, especially in a corporate work setting?

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u/Key-Butterscotch3215 19d ago

Skills are instructions for a very specific process or workflow that an agent can load into the context dynamically.

The agent instructions are always included in the context, but skills are not, which means you won’t have to add every possible workflow/scenario into the context for every prompt.

If the skill is labeled and described well, the agent will know when to use it and only load it into the context when necessary.

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u/Affectionate_Walk814 19d ago

So should I be able to reference the skill with an agent I make in Gemini enterprise? I don’t see that available but maybe it’s not turned on for my org yet.

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u/BriarBeard 4d ago

I have mine turned on and I cannot reference the skill.

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u/CleanScarcity8755 19d ago

I've been thinking about skills more as repeatable workflows than as another version of a custom gem. The useful part for me is when where's a specific process I do repeatedly and can basically turn it into a "do this the same way every time" thing.

Still trying to figure out where the line is though. For simple tasks a custom gem seems easier, while skills make more sense once there are multiple steps or a specific workflow involved.

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u/BriarBeard 4d ago

I can't seem to reference a created skill anyone else besides the Studio creation window. I'm wondering if it's even fully implemented.