Meet Gemini Agent: A General-Purpose AI Assistant to Automate Everyday Workflows

After generative AI, AI agents and agentic AI systems have become the direction we are heading towards. You may have seen or tried AI agents or agentic systems that are designed to help you with coding, booking trips, and other complex multi-step tasks. This is a clear step towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). Google took a big step on the path toward AGI after releasing Gemini 3 Pro, marketing the AI model as its most intelligent, helping you bring any idea to life. So, AI agents and agentic AI systems are indeed a step towards AGI.

What are AI agents?

AI agents are systems that combine the intelligence of advanced AI models with access to tools, allowing them to take action on your behalf and under your control. There are several task-specific AI agents and generalist AI agents that you can use based on your personal requirements.

How does an AI agent actually work?

When you ask for help on a task, an AI agent plans a series of steps and executes them directly in the application on your behalf, using the tools it has access to.

For example, suppose you are booking a local service or trying to organize your inbox (a task that involves multiple steps). In that case, the AI model first plans how to achieve the task using its existing knowledge, then interacts with your inbox to execute it. The agent will continue until it is confident that the task has been successfully completed.

After months, Google has finally launched its own general AI agent, Gemini Agent, within the Gemini app to help take tedious tasks off your to-do list.

What is Gemini Agent?

As of writing this article, Gemini Agent is an experimental feature inside the Gemini app designed to handle complex, multi-step tasks across the web and your Google apps. It's currently rolling out on the web to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US, powered by Gemini 3 Pro.

Gemini Agent makes a plan, then combines advanced features like:

• Live web browsing to research options and compare products and pricing.
• Deep research capabilities to get the most accurate results.
• Seamless integration with some of your Google apps to execute that plan on your behalf.

All of that still happens under your supervision as the system is explicitly designed to ask for confirmation before it sends an email, makes a purchase, or performs other critical actions, and you can interrupt or take over at any point.

Here is what makes Gemini Agent perfect for both technical and non-technical users:

• Live web research and comparison: Gemini Agent can browse the web in real time, gather information from multiple sites, compare options (like flights, rentals, or hotels), and keep that context tied to your task instead of dumping it back on you.
• Deep Research & Reasoning: The agent doesn't just grab the first search result. It can browse multiple pages, synthesize information, and compare options (e.g., finding a mid-size SUV rental under $80/day) to present a finalized recommendation.
• Multi-Step Orchestration: It can orchestrate long, branching workflows to intelligently handle dependencies. It knows it cannot book a hotel until it confirms your flight dates, and it won't draft an Out of Office email until the trip is confirmed.
• Native Tool Integration: It deeply integrates with the Google ecosystem. It can read your Gmail to find flight details, check your Calendar for conflicts, and use Google Maps to verify the distance between your hotel and a conference center.
• Human-in-the-Loop Control: This is important for building trust. The Gemini agent pauses and asks for confirmation before taking important actions, like sending an email or completing a purchase. Consider yourself the manager, and the AI is the employee.
• Visual Planning (Canvas): For complex projects, the agent can use interfaces like Canvas to chart out a course of action visually, allowing you to edit the plan before it is executed.

Where Gemini Agent fits in the agentic AI trend

Gemini Agent is part of a broader ecosystem of AI agents Google is building; there is already a coding-focused Agent Mode in Gemini Code Assist, as well as enterprise agents and multi-agent workflows in Vertex AI.

For everyday users, though, Google's Gemini Agent is the first glimpse of the agent-first philosophy, where regular consumers can experience AI agent/agentic system capabilities within the Gemini app. Instead of needing to learn a new product, you stay in the chat box you already use and add a new mode that can reach into your apps and the web on your behalf.

In Conclusion:

Gemini Agent is still early, limited, and very much a work in progress, available only to Google AI Ultra subscribers. However, the agent is powered by Gemini 3 Pro with features like live web access and deep research, so the wait for the Google AI Pro and free users will be worth it. Google already has an edge over its competitors, with the Gemini agent deeply integrated with the Google ecosystem, including apps like Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and other Google services. Its usefulness and capabilities will be tested once we do the hands-on test.