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TL;DR Google could soon allow users to assign tasks to its autonomous agent, Spark, directly from the Gemini overlay.
Google is also testing a similar handover feature in the main Gemini interface.
The Gemini overlay could also add an option to switch models without opening the full interface.
Google announced Spark, its autonomous AI agent that performs a sequence of tasks without intervention, at Google I/O 2026. Since then, Spark has rolled out in beta to Gemini (so far only to paying Google AI subscribers) on the web and mobile versions. On top of that, Google can be seen making efforts to make Spark’s skills easier to manage from mobile, especially as it looks to sunset Gems later this year.
In line with those efforts, we’re now seeing evidence that Google is making it easier to assign tasks to Spark, even mid-conversation.
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Last month, we learned Google is working on an option to offload tasks to Spark directly from a regular Gemini chat instead of switching over from the sidebar first. While the feature hasn’t rolled out, we’re seeing new evidence suggesting a similar action to engage the agent could be executed using the floating Gemini overlay, even without opening Gemini fully. These hints were spotted as part of version 17.56.14 of the Google app, which we tweaked to enable a preview, even though the feature isn’t live for everyone yet.
Users would likely be able to access the Assign option by tapping the plus (+) button or expanding the overlay using the grab handle. Here, they would likely see an option to “put Gemini to work” on a specific task. Currently, we see a toggle here instead of a regular button. Once this toggle is enabled, the text on the overlay changes from “Ask Gemini” to “Describe a task.”
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