Google introduces Gemini agent for ongoing enterprise work across tools

One agent across work environments

Google introduced Gemini agent at Gemini at Work 2026. The Google Cloud announcement, adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote, describes an agent that can answer questions, produce media and write or run code through a shared work interface.

Google describes access across devices and workplace channels, including Google Workspace and other connected systems. The announcement separates the agent from the underlying model: it says jobs can use Gemini models or Anthropic’s Claude, with additional model options planned.

Work that continues after the laptop closes

Google says the agent runs in the cloud and can maintain context while tasks continue for hours or days. It also describes temporary sub-agents for particular jobs and persistent coworker agents with defined roles and identities.

That design raises a practical administration question: who can authorize an action that happens after the person who assigned it has left the session? An organization evaluating the product should identify where permissions are checked, how work is stopped and where a reviewer can inspect the actions taken. Those are evaluation questions, rather than evidence that a particular control has already passed an independent test.

Make a pilot specific enough to judge

The announcement describes enterprise tool connections, reusable skills and several kinds of memory. It also discusses authorization, sandboxing and cost controls. These are broad platform claims; availability and configuration for a particular organization need to be checked against its actual setup.

A useful pilot would assign a bounded task with a known input and a clear destination. Record which connected systems the agent touches, inspect the final document or change, and review the cost of completing the task. A finished-looking answer should be assessed alongside its supporting evidence and the actions used to produce it.