Today, we’re introducing Skills in Chrome, a new way to build one-click workflows for your most frequently used AI prompts — like asking for ingredient substitutions to make a recipe vegan, generating side-by-side shopping comparisons across multiple tabs, or scanning long docs to get the info you need quickly.... When you write a prompt that you want to use again, you can save it as a Skill directly from your chat history. The next time you need it, select your saved Skill in Gemini in Chrome by typing forward slash ( / ) or clicking the plus sign ( + ) button, and your Skill will run on the page you’re viewing, along with any other tabs you select.show more

We’re also launching a library of ready-to-use Skills for common tasks and workflows. You can save these Skills to your own library, and even customize them to better fit your needs by updating the prompt.

Learn more about Skills in @GoogleChrome ↓

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Demonstrating the skills integration feature of the Gemini extension for Chrome. Steps in the demo: 1. Visit a page of interest 2. Invoke the Gemini extension (beside the address bar) 3. Use “/” to trigger skill lookup and selection 4. Select a skill 5. Enjoy! In my case, I generated a knowledge graph directly from the content of the page, which I then uploaded to a live #VirtuosoRDBMS instance via its SPARQL query services endpoint.

@googlechrome Google spent 3 years losing the AI race then remembered they own the browser 💀

@googlechrome i still don't get it where is this option i am not able to find it or does this requires latest chrome

@googlechrome Sounds more like a prompt library than a skill. So much for standardization 😑

@googlechrome Something similar, but much more powerful. Free and Open source:

@googlechrome Is any of the Google Chrome feature available in UK. Chrome is doing persistently US-only launches. It's frustrating now.

@googlechrome Google turning Chrome into an agent playground is actually pretty smart. Saved prompts that run across tabs with just a slash? Finally makes AI feel useful instead of another tab I forget about.

@googlechrome Holy shit my names there lol

@googlechrome This is not Skills... it is just a prompt library 🙃

@googlechrome One click workflows sound clean but the real friction is context switching between tabs. Does it actually remember what you were doing 3 clicks ago?

@googlechrome yeah and when is this coming outside U.S , canada, india and new zealand?

@googlechrome let me guess, US only?

@googlechrome This and vertical tabs made me re-download chrome after using Perplexity for nine months. Testing it out now

@googlechrome I'm tired of waiting for Gemini on Chrome in my country.

The browser is becoming the operating system. And every AI company just realized it at the same time. Google just shipped "Skills" for Gemini in Chrome — reusable AI workflows that run across any webpage with one click. This isn't a feature announcement. It's Google's answer to a war that broke out in the last 90 days. OpenAI launched Atlas (its own browser). Perplexity launched Comet. The Browser Company launched Dia. Anthropic shipped Claude for Chrome. Every major AI lab simultaneously concluded that the browser — not the chatbot, not the API, not the app — is where AI agents will live. Google's move is the most consequential because they already own the distribution. Chrome has 65%+ global browser market share. That's 3.5 billion devices where Gemini can be the default AI layer between the user and every website they visit. OpenAI can build Atlas. Perplexity can build Comet. But Google doesn't need anyone to download a new browser. They push an update and 3.5 billion people have AI Skills in their sidebar tomorrow. Here's how Skills work. You write a Gemini prompt — "analyze the protein macros in this recipe," "compare specs across these three product tabs," "scan this document for the key legal terms" — and save it as a reusable Skill. Next time, type "/" in the Gemini sidebar, select the Skill, and it runs against whatever page or pages you're viewing. One click. No retyping. It works cross-tab, so you can run a comparison Skill against five open browser tabs simultaneously. Google is also shipping a pre-built Skills library — productivity templates, shopping comparisons, research workflows, budgeting tools — so users who've never written a prompt in their life can start using AI agents immediately. That's the distribution play. You don't need to be a power user. You open Chrome, you click a Skill, AI does the work. The deeper signal is what Google announced a week ago alongside Skills: auto browse. For AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, Gemini can now handle multi-step tasks autonomously in the browser — booking appointments, ordering groceries, filling out forms. You tell it what you want, it navigates websites and completes the workflow while you do something else. This is the same trajectory as Anthropic's Claude Code Routines (which we covered earlier today) but applied to the consumer web instead of developer workflows. Claude Code automates your codebase. Chrome Skills automate your browser. The pattern is identical: define a workflow once, let AI execute it repeatedly without human intervention. The competitive dynamics are fascinating. Anthropic has Claude for Chrome as an extension — powerful but requires installation and a separate account. OpenAI built an entire browser because they had no distribution. Google just ships it as a Chrome update. The advantage of owning the browser is that you don't need permission to integrate. You ARE the integration layer. The risk for Google is that Skills and auto browse turn Chrome into a surveillance engine that knows not just what you browse but what you DO — what you buy, what you compare, what you skip, what you return to. Every Skill execution is a signal. Google's ad business already knows what you search for. Now it'll know what you do with the results. For users, the practical upside is real. If you do repetitive research, comparison shopping, document scanning, or content analysis across websites, Skills eliminates the friction of retyping prompts. It's the macro button for AI-powered browsing — simple, obvious, and the kind of feature that makes people use Gemini daily instead of occasionally. The AI browser war isn't about who has the best model. It's about who owns the surface area between the user and the internet. Google just reminded everyone that they've owned it for 17 years.

@googlechrome This is the feature nobody asked for but everyone needed. Google cooking. 🔥

@googlechrome This is what makes a browser stop being a reader and become an operator

@googlechrome "new way to build one-click workflows" is doing a lot of work for what is basically saved prompts in the browser. but if that's all it takes to get normal people using AI consistently, fine.

@googlechrome Don’t see Chrome Skills on my Desktop macOS browser. Gemini Pro account. US based.

@googlechrome Rooting for Google here. Their Skills make AI feel simple and usable for almost anyone, which is huge. But leading the AI scene takes more than convenience. It needs bold bets and real moonshots. Google has the muscle to do both… just waiting to see them truly take the lead.

@googlechrome Google introduced a "skill," which is basically a frequently used prompt. Similar to Claude, this is a nice-to-have feature for routine human-AI tasks.

@googlechrome Google - how I wish you already activated these features in google chrome for macbook here in the Philippines!

@googlechrome UK ETA ??

@googlechrome Saving repeat prompts as one click workflows inside the browser makes this genuinely practical for everyday use

@googlechrome this is cool but most people won’t realize the real play, you can chain these skills with multi tab context and basically turn chrome into a lightweight agent that does research + comparison + extraction in one click

@kazunori_279 @googlechrome 日本でも早くGeminiを使えるようにしていただければと思います

@googlechrome @dialtala

@googlechrome / / / / skillz for dayz

@googlechrome @GoogleAds urgent – account wrongly suspended, €3k payment taken but not applied, 3 duplicate €1,000 direct debits triggered. Losing revenue daily. Need escalation now.

@hnshah @googlechrome one-click ai workflows? might actually save my sanity

@googlechrome That’s a good direction but Dia by @browsercompany (@Atlassian) is superior in almost every way. @joshm, let’s get some advertising going!

@googlechrome and let me fucking guess, its only available is the fucking US?

@googlechrome Skills in Chrome means your most used AI prompts now live in your browser like bookmarks but they actually do something