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Google Cloud's new Gemini agent runs work for days and can hand jobs to Claude

Coworker agents get their own email address, calendar and Drive, and a spot in the company directory.

By Think Facility · October 9, 2026 · Google AI agents Save

Google Cloud announced the Gemini agent on October 8, 2026, at its Gemini at Work event. Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud's CEO, calls it a single, universal agent for work: one prompt box for questions, documents, media and code.

It runs in the cloud. Close your laptop and a job that takes hours or days just keeps going. The part I'd flag first, though, is the model picker: for some jobs, Google's agent will run on Claude.

Announced

October 8, 2026, at Gemini at Work 2026

Long jobs

work that takes hours or days

Models

Gemini family and Claude models from Anthropic

Channels

Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or Slack

What it does

Kurian's post is adapted from his keynote. You delegate an outcome, he writes, and come back to finished work.

Big jobs get split among sub-agents. Gemini can also spin up a coworker agent with a standing role, and that's the odd bit: in Workspace it gets its own account, with an email address, a calendar, Drive and a listing in the company directory. Colleagues add it to a chat or @mention it in a doc comment, the way they'd ping a person.

It doesn't stop at Google's apps either. Kurian names Confluence, Jira, Salesforce and ServiceNow, plus files on your own desktop and any MCP server.

Claude inside a Google product

Here's the bit that stands out. Kurian says the agent orchestrates across Google's Gemini models and Anthropic's Claude models today, and he expects to add other private and open models later.

Mostly it's pitched as a cost thing. A Smart Routing tool sends each workload to the model that does it well for the least money. If a project hits its spend cap, its agent simply pauses until someone clicks resume.

It's the second big agent in a few days to lean on Claude. Musk said Grok Bot would route tasks to Claude Opus 5.5 (along with Midjourney and Suno).

Keeping it on a leash

Every agent gets its own identity and the smallest set of permissions it needs. Whatever it does lands in an audit trail under the agent's name.

All traffic in and out goes through Agent Gateway, which Google calls an AI network firewall. So an admin writes one rule, say that agents can't open documents marked Need to Know, and every agent in the company follows it.

Who gets it

The post is aimed at Gemini Enterprise customers. Kurian says nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 already use it. Versions for financial services and legal teams are in preview now.

Kurian didn't give a price for the agent or a date when it'll be generally available.