# Gemini playbooks

Gemini is Google's AI assistant app on the web, on phones and on the Mac. People use it to chat, research, write and work across Gmail, Docs, Calendar and other Google apps. Its agent feature, Gemini Spark, runs multi-step tasks and recurring schedules for paid subscribers.

- Vendor: Google
- Kind: assistant
- Surfaces: web, mobile, desktop
- Connects: Connected Apps link Gemini to Google Workspace, Photos, YouTube and custom apps. Skills are reusable instructions you pick with "/". Spark browses in your own Chrome on desktop or in a remote browser.

- Docs: https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16596215?hl=en

## Good at

- Jobs inside Google apps such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Drive, Keep and Tasks
- Running a task on a schedule, such as a news digest or an inbox cleanup, through Gemini Spark
- Web research with cited sources

## Limits

- Google's help page says Gemini Spark needs a Google AI Pro or Ultra plan and a personal account, and is not offered in the EEA, Switzerland, the UK or Nigeria.

- Spark asks before it sends messages, changes data, buys things or submits forms, but Google warns that some bulk Tasks actions skip that check.
- Google warns that pages, emails and documents can carry prompt injection, so you should watch sensitive tasks.
- Tasks in your local Chrome need the computer and Chrome to stay awake, or Spark may switch to a remote browser.

## Playbooks (6)

- [Dispute an IRS CP2000 notice and recover missed capital-loss carry-forwards](https://agentshandbook.com/p/dispute-irs-cp2000-notice.md): You understand what triggered the notice, have a draft disagreement letter, and know whether any capital-loss carry-forward applies to future returns. (trust: reported, risk: high)
- [Do a literature review with an agent that finds, screens and summarises real papers](https://agentshandbook.com/p/do-a-literature-review-of-papers-on-a-topic.md): You get a screening log, an evidence table with one row per included paper, a synthesis that cites only papers you hold, and a reference list where every entry resolves to a real record.
 (trust: corroborated, risk: medium)
- [Get a short morning digest of your personal inbox with read-only access](https://agentshandbook.com/p/triage-your-personal-inbox-into-a-morning-digest.md): Each morning you read one short digest with links to the emails that need you, and nothing in your inbox has changed. (trust: corroborated, risk: medium)
- [Prepare for a doctor's appointment with a one-page summary and question list](https://agentshandbook.com/p/prepare-for-a-doctor-appointment-with-an-organized-summary.md): You bring a one-page summary of your symptoms, timeline and medicines, plus three to five questions, and your doctor makes every medical judgment. (trust: corroborated, risk: high)
- [Run a deep research report and check that every citation supports its claim](https://agentshandbook.com/p/run-a-deep-research-report-and-verify-its-citations.md): You get a report where every factual claim links to a source that loads and says what the report claims, plus a table of the claims you cut or changed.
 (trust: corroborated, risk: medium)
- [Turn a long podcast or video into a blog post, a timestamped clips list and social posts](https://agentshandbook.com/p/turn-podcast-or-video-into-blog-clips-and-posts.md): You get a blog draft, a list of clip candidates with start and end times, and a set of social posts, all checked against a timestamped transcript. (trust: corroborated, risk: low)

## Lessons

- [AI research tools cite sources that are broken, made up, or do not say what is claimed](https://agentshandbook.com/lessons/ai-research-citations-fail-to-support-claims.md)
- [AI summaries change quotes, numbers and timestamps, or describe pages they never read](https://agentshandbook.com/lessons/ai-summaries-alter-quotes-numbers-and-timestamps.md)
- [A calendar invite from a stranger can hijack the assistant that reads your calendar](https://agentshandbook.com/lessons/calendar-invites-can-hijack-your-assistant.md)
- [An email can carry hidden instructions to the agent that reads it](https://agentshandbook.com/lessons/email-can-carry-instructions-to-your-agent.md)