We've built around 200 skills at our agency. None of them hold client-specific guidance. Wherever a step needs it, the skill tells the model to find that client's canonical doc, and to create it if it's missing. We call them skill hooks.

Google disabled Google search in my @GeminiApp because I added an attachment, it said: "Uploading a document to Gemini Chat now locks the session to those files to prevent confidential document content from leaking into external search queries and to stop outside web results from contaminating your file data." Somebody thought this was a great idea and it passed all the checks and went to production. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW.

After spending the afternoon building, I'm fairly confident that Gemini 4 Argon plus my OKF driven knowledge brain can do a better job than my biological brain alone when it comes to data analysis and consulting. They weren't kidding when they said it was good at knowledge work. I'm half excited and half terrified. We are nearing the point where AI will be as smart as any human on any cognitive task.

Ooooh…Google announced Gemini Agent - meant to help small businesses agentically. This is big news! It works inside Gmail, Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Chat and Calendar carrying the same memory, skills and controls it has everywhere else. It also has skills for data analysis, industry specific tools, connectors (like DropBox, Asana, GitHub, Notion, Slack) and knowledge. It runs in the cloud and can be accessed from any device. It can create subagents to go get stuff done for you in parallel and run for hours or days. It can use Gemini OR Claude and other models are coming soon including open models. cloud.google.com/blog/topics… cloud.google.com/blog/produc… Our Search Bar Pro meeting is starting soon so we will definitely go over this in more detail.

I officially hit over 45,000 articles on search topics between @seroundtable (34,973) @sengineland (9,142) and my early days at @sewatch (1,140)

"Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others." ⛪☀️ Happy Sunday, folks!