Google has officially launched Skills in Chrome, a new feature that allows users to discover, save, and reuse their most effective AI prompts as instant, one-click workflows. This update to Gemini in Chrome aims to eliminate the repetitive task of re-entering the same instructions across different web pages.
Automate Your Web Experience
"Skills" essentially acts as a macro for AI. Instead of manually asking for a summary or a comparison every time you visit a new site, you can save that instruction as a Skill.
Seamless Activation: Users can trigger their saved Skills by typing a forward slash (/) or clicking the plus sign (+) in the Gemini side panel.
Context-Aware: A Skill can run on the current page you are viewing or across multiple selected tabs simultaneously.
Customization: Users can build their own Skills from their chat history or browse a new Skills Library containing ready-to-use workflows for tasks like spec comparisons, recipe analysis, or document scanning.
Examples of AI Workflows
During early testing, users have developed powerful workflows such as:
Productivity: Scanning long research papers for specific data points across multiple open tabs.
Shopping: Generating side-by-side spec comparisons of products found on different retail sites.
Health: Automatically calculating nutritional macros for recipes found on any food blog.
Security and Privacy
Skills are built on Chrome’s existing security foundation. For actions involving sensitive data or third-party integrations (like adding an event to a calendar), the system will always ask for user confirmation. Additionally, saved Skills sync across all signed-in desktop devices.
Availability
Skills in Chrome are currently rolling out to Mac, Windows, and ChromeOS users with their language set to English-US. Users can manage their collection by clicking the compass icon within the Gemini side panel.
For the developer community, this feature provides a glimpse into the future of "Agentic Browsing," where the browser isn't just a viewer but an active assistant capable of executing complex, multi-tab logic with a single command.
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