Gemini Gems
Ranked 3 of 6 chatbot features by recommenders
People recommend Gems for building custom assistants for specific topics, learning and deep dives, and say setup is simple. The common caveat is reliability: results can be inconsistent and it can fail at reading articles or web search.
People recommend Gems for building custom assistants for specific topics, learning and deep dives, and say setup is simple. The common caveat is reliability: results can be inconsistent and it can fail at reading articles or web search.
14 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 64%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong for specific topics and learning
“Gems have been extremely powerful at highly specific topics and helping with learn different topics”
Comment from 28 Sep 2026 in “Gemini app replacing Gems with skills in November” “Gemini gem is great for deep dives.”
Comment from 12 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: WhatHappened – HN summaries, heatmaps, and contrarian picks” Simple built-in option without code
“Gemini's already shipped a super simple solution: Gems.”
Comment from 14 Nov 2025 in “Gem: Modded Gemini is a great enterprise search tool/debug asst?” “the later can be done via manual code or Gemini Gems (if you use google)”
Comment from 13 Mar 2026 in “Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes” Works well in tests
“tested it with a couple conversations and it works great”
Comment from 17 Jul 2026 in “NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook” “It seems to have worked great on this article!”
Comment from 9 Aug 2026 in “Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Inconsistent results and reliability
“It was a nightmare to restrict or get consistent results.”
Comment from 20 Jun 2026 in “Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school” “Gemini gems are less reliable in our experience.”
Comment from 3 May 2026 in “Coffee doesn't just wake you up–a biological pathway illuminates health effects” Fails on article reading and web search
“fails when you want it to read contents of an article or do web search”
Comment from 17 Jul 2026 in “NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook” “which is not possible with gemini.google.com's gems”
Comment from 2 Dec 2025 in “Mistral 3 family of models released”
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Artifacts | 25 | 12 | 68% | 8 | — | Approved |
| ChatGPT Health | 20 | 70 | 22% | 2 | — | — |
| Gemini GemsThis page | 9 | 5 | 64% | 7 | — | — |
| Claude Memory | 6 | 24 | 20% | 4 | — | — |
| Claude Projects | 6 | 7 | 46% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
12 of the 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Gems have been extremely powerful at highly specific topics and helping with learn different topics”
“It seems to have worked great on this article!”
“fails when you want it to read contents of an article or do web search”
“tested it with a couple conversations and it works great”
“It was a nightmare to restrict or get consistent results.”
“Gemini gems are less reliable in our experience.”
“the later can be done via manual code or Gemini Gems (if you use google)”
“Gemini gem is great for deep dives.”
“has more actionable takeaways for me”
“which is not possible with gemini.google.com's gems”
“Isn’t that what gems are?”
“Gemini's already shipped a super simple solution: Gems.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.