The new CC, an AI agent built for families

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When we launched CC, our goal was to build a personal agent that helps you get ahead of your day. It quickly became a daily habit for many early testers and in May we brought it to the Gemini App as Daily Brief.

One of our top user requests was for CC to do more to help run a busy home. Between school schedules, sports practices, paying bills, and figuring out what’s for dinner, managing a household is often a shared responsibility with a lot of coordination, made even more challenging with information spread over multiple user accounts.

Today, CC is becoming an agent for families and households. It has its own Google account that gives CC a distinct identity and clear permissions model, enabling up to six members to manage and collaborate with the agent. CC only sees what each member chooses to share, such as emails from your child’s school, the local swim center, or the vet. It automatically sorts through them and creates a shared daily brief and connects to Calendar and Tasks, helping families spend less time coordinating logistics and more time just being together.

How CC can help families save time

With shared context in one place, CC helps keep daily routines for groups such as families and households running smoothly:

• Start the morning aligned: Each morning, CC delivers a shared “Your Day Ahead” brief. Instead of family logistical information staying trapped in one person’s inbox or mental checklist, everyone gets a clear view of who needs to be where, what needs to be done, and what CC already completed yesterday.

Add family members to your CC and pull in relevant information for Your Day Ahead brief, delivered right to your inbox.

• Offload event and task management: CC automatically tracks important dates and to-dos, pulling relevant shared information from across your group into a family Calendar or Task list, and helps keep them up to date even as things change.

CC can automatically add calendar events based on what your family shares.

• Have CC handle it: CC can also help you complete time consuming logistical tasks involved in running a family, such as filling out permission slips or activity registration PDFs, creating school supply shopping lists, or crafting weekly meal plans. CC will ask for missing details and update its group memory so it can be even more helpful next time.

CC can take action, like filling out forms, with your permission.

How CC works, while keeping you in control

• CC now has its own verified Google Account: This is how CC will show up when it interacts with the group. It only responds to group members, and will not take action or share information outside the group without your permission.
• You choose what to share: Each member can easily choose what to share with CC and what to keep private, and can make changes at any time.

  Auto “cc” CC: Pick the email senders that you always want to share with CC going forward, like your kids’ school or travel bookings. Each week, you’ll also receive a private list of new email senders that you can choose to share with CC.

  Send it to CC: When a one-off email comes or you get a text message with information, you can offload it to CC. For example, you can send a picture of a birthday party invite or soccer practice schedule via email or Google Chat so CC can update the Calendar. You can also share a Drive folder or files with CC or add CC to a Calendar.

Easily control what you share with CC.

• Meeting you where you are: CC connects with the Google tools you use every day, like Gmail, Chat, Docs, and Calendar. Behind the scenes, every CC runs on its own isolated cloud computer powered by Google’s agentic harness, Antigravity, and the latest Gemini models. This allows CC to handle tasks like pre-filling class registration PDF forms, checking live drive times from the Google Maps API between back-to-back activities, or creating shared Docs and Sheets.
• CC has a shared memory. As you use it, CC remembers what applies to the whole household (like your go-to grocery list or favorite family restaurants) versus what belongs to one person (like dietary preferences or local timezones).

CC is an early experiment from Google Labs, available on web and mobile for people (18+) in the U.S with a personal Google account. Existing users will receive an email in the coming days to upgrade their account and new users can join the waitlist.