Google has introduced CC, a new AI agent designed for families. Up to six family members can share a single account to coordinate schedules, fill out school paperwork, and build shopping lists together. The experimental rollout is starting with invited adult users in the United States.

From a Personal Assistant to a Household Hub

CC began life in December 2025 as a personal productivity agent from Google Labs, and it was later folded into the Gemini app's Daily Brief feature. The version announced this week expands that personal assistant into a shared tool that up to six household members can join under one CC account, coordinating schedules and tasks together. Tom Shane, a senior product manager at Google Labs, said the single biggest request from users was for CC to do more to help manage the chaos of running a busy household.

A Morning Briefing and Automatic Paperwork

The centerpiece of the family version is a daily briefing called Your Day Ahead, which rolls up who is going where, what tasks remain unfinished, and what got done the day before into one shared summary each morning. CC can also fill out school forms such as camp registrations, put together school-supply lists, plan a week of meals, and generate the matching shopping list. When it is missing information, CC asks a family member directly and stores the answer in the household's shared memory. It can also calculate travel time between activities and draft shared documents or spreadsheets for the family to use.

Reading Only the Emails It Is Allowed To

CC runs on its own dedicated Google account, powered by Gemini models and Google's in-house Antigravity agent framework, on isolated cloud machines. On the privacy side, CC can only read messages from senders a family has pre-approved, such as a school, and information is not supposed to leave the group without permission. Each member can independently control what they choose to share, and CC's back-and-forth suggestions with any one member stay private to that person. Some limitations remain, however: deleting an email from an inbox does not automatically erase it from CC's memory, which requires deleting the CC account itself, and removing a single member means rebuilding the whole group from scratch. Encrypted or password-protected PDFs are not supported either.

Adults in the US Get First Access

Eligibility is limited to adults 18 and older with a personal Google account; accounts issued by a school do not qualify. Availability is currently limited to the United States, with Canada, Australia, and New Zealand said to be coming soon. Existing CC users are being sent upgrade invitations by email, while new users can join a waitlist, and those who signed up before the September 17 announcement are said to get priority access.

Summary

Google has expanded CC, the AI agent it previously offered to individuals, into a version that up to six family members can share. The new tool can handle a morning briefing, automatic paperwork, and weekly meal and shopping planning, though limitations remain around deleted-email retention and the rigidity of group membership. The rollout is starting as an invite-only experiment for adults in the US, and it remains to be seen how quickly Google expands eligibility and availability to more regions.