Create a Skill after the method is clear
Define the sources, steps, quality rules and structure that should guide several tasks.
Gemini Spark · personal AI agent
Use Gemini Spark as an AI agent
Gemini Spark is a personal AI agent inside Gemini. It can take action across connected tools, manage multi-step tasks and keep scheduled work running in the background under your direction.
Spark access depends on account, subscription, age and regional eligibility.
An AI agent does more than answer
🎯Task = whatGive Spark a complete goal to manage, not just a question to answer.
🕒Schedule = whenChoose a time or event that starts or repeats the work.
🧰Skill = howReuse instructions, context and tool guidance for a familiar method.
Chat, Spark or Workspace Studio?
Choose
When it fits
Example
Gemini chat
You need one answer, analysis or piece of content.
Compare three travel options.
Gemini Spark
An AI agent should research, use tools or take actions as the situation changes.
Plan and manage a business trip.
Workspace Studio
The same known sequence should repeat.
When a form arrives, summarize it and notify a manager.
Create a Spark task
Describe the complete goalExplain the result you need and what success should look like.
Add timing or a SkillInclude a schedule when it should run later and a reusable method when useful.
Provide permitted contextAttach files, Drive material or a Notebook the agent genuinely needs.
Monitor the agentReview its plan, progress, requests for input and permissions in the work panel.
A practical scheduled task
Every weekday morning, review the AI news I care about, identify only developments that could affect how non-technical employees use AI at work, and prepare a short briefing with links to the original sources. Use my Executive Briefing skill.
Spark is acting as an agent here: it finds information, applies a reusable method and produces the briefing on a schedule.
Skills teach the agent a reusable method
Do not create one for a one-off task
A Skill is useful only when the same way of working will be reused.
Improve repeated behaviour once
If several tasks need the same correction, update the Skill rather than each task.
Practical rule
Spark is an AI agent in Gemini. A Task defines what it manages, a Schedule defines when it runs and a Skill defines how it should work.
How the Spark agent works
The agent can move from information to action
🎯You give a goalDescribe the complete outcome and any important boundaries.
🧠Spark plans the workThe agent chooses intermediate steps as the situation unfolds.
🔌It uses approved toolsSpark may use connected apps, files, notebooks, websites or skills.
✅You superviseReview progress and respond when the agent needs input or permission.
Local and remote browsing differ
Local browser uses your session
With permission, Spark can use signed-in sites in Chrome. Your device normally must remain awake for that part.
Remote browser can continue separately
Some supported tasks can continue when your device is closed, but sign-in stages may still require takeover.
Keep sensitive information on the website
Take control for sign-in
Enter passwords, payment details and other sensitive information directly on the site, not in the Spark task thread.
Do not assume every risky action will pause
Scheduled work can run while you are offline. Keep high-impact decisions under human review.
Spark or Workspace Studio?
Use
Choose it when
Core difference
Gemini Spark
The goal is clear but the route may change.
The AI agent researches, browses or makes intermediate judgments.
Workspace Studio
The trigger, sequence and branches are known.
The same fixed automation runs predictably.
Start where mistakes are manageable
Good early work
Briefings, monitoring and preparation where a review can catch errors.
Avoid as a first schedule
Sensitive or high-impact actions where an unintended result is hard to reverse.
Review task history
Use the work panel to learn how the AI agent behaves with your tools and permissions.
An AI agent still needs supervision
Spark can act and keep working in the background, but it can make mistakes when information or website conditions change.