Skills in Chrome

What is Skills in Chrome?

Skills in Chrome is a feature in Chrome that lets you save, reuse, and remix your helpful AI prompts as one-click tools while browsing. Instead of re-entering the same prompt on different pages, you can run a saved workflow on the current page and any selected tabs.

It’s designed for people who already use AI in Chrome (via Gemini in Chrome) for tasks like answering questions, comparing information, and clarifying concepts—then want to repeat those results more quickly.

Key Features

• Save prompts as Skills from your chat history: When you find a prompt you want to use again, you can store it as a Skill.
• One-click execution in the browser: Select a saved Skill in Gemini in Chrome and run it on the page you’re viewing.
• Run Skills with multiple tabs: Skills can run not only on the current page but also on other tabs you select.
• Slash command and quick entry: You can trigger a saved Skill by typing “/” or using the “+” button in Gemini in Chrome.
• Edit and remix saved Skills: You can update existing Skills and create new ones as your needs change.
• Ready-to-use Skills library: A library of prebuilt Skills is available for common tasks and workflows, which you can add and customize.
• Confirmation-based actions and shared safeguards with Gemini in Chrome: Skills prompts ask for confirmation before certain actions (for example, adding an event to a calendar or sending an email).
• Privacy and security layered protections: Skills use the same safeguards applied to prompts in Gemini in Chrome, including automated red-teaming and auto-update capabilities.

How to Use Skills in Chrome

1. Use Gemini in Chrome to try an AI prompt for a task you’ll likely repeat.
2. Save that prompt as a Skill from your chat history.
3. Later, open Gemini in Chrome and select your saved Skill by typing “/” or tapping the “+” button.
4. Run the Skill on the page you’re viewing (and select additional tabs if needed).
5. If you want changes, edit the saved Skill and update the prompt.

To begin with prebuilt workflows, you can also browse the Skills library, add a Skill that matches your goal, and then customize it.

Use Cases

• Recipe planning and dietary goals: Save a prompt for ingredient substitutions (e.g., making a recipe vegan) and rerun it when you visit different recipe pages.
• Health & wellness calculations: Use a saved Skill to quickly calculate protein macros for whatever recipe you’re viewing.
• Shopping comparisons across tabs: Generate side-by-side specification comparisons by running the same workflow across multiple product pages.
• Document review and summarization: Scan long pages or documents to identify important information using a repeatable prompt.
• Cross-referencing options with constraints: Use a prebuilt Skill to select a gift from multiple options by matching a budget to the recipient’s interests.

FAQ

Where can I access Skills in Chrome?

Skills are rolled out to Gemini in Chrome on desktop, and your saved Skills are available on any signed-in Chrome desktop device.

How do I start a saved Skill?

In Gemini in Chrome, you can select a saved Skill by typing “/” or clicking the “+” button, then run it on the page you’re viewing.

Can I edit saved Skills?

Yes. You can edit saved Skills and create new ones at any time.

Do Skills require confirmation for actions?

Skills are designed to ask for confirmation before certain actions, such as adding an event to your calendar or sending an email.

What’s the Skills library?

It’s a set of ready-to-use, prebuilt Skills for common tasks. You can add one to your saved Skills and try it, then customize the prompt if you want.

Alternatives

• Use manual prompt re-entry in Gemini in Chrome: You can run AI tasks by retyping prompts on each page, but it’s less efficient than saving and one-click reuse.
• Create your own repeatable workflows outside Chrome: If your workflow doesn’t fit browser-based tab/page context, you may rely on separate note-taking and prompting tools to standardize inputs.
• Use other browser-based AI assistants that support snippet or workflow reuse: Some tools in this category focus on summarization or Q&A but may not provide the same one-click saving and tab-scoped execution pattern described for Skills in Chrome.