Google just launched a feature that sounds unassuming but is actually pretty clever: Skills in Chrome. The idea is simple — you can save your best Gemini prompts as reusable tools and run them with a single click on any website.
How It Works
You know the scenario: you’ve crafted a prompt that works perfectly — say, one that analyzes recipes for protein content or one that distills lengthy documents into key takeaways. Until now, you had to retype it every time or copy it from a notes app.
With Chrome Skills, you can now save that prompt directly from your chat history as a ‘Skill’. The Skill then appears in Chrome’s Gemini menu. Hit / or the plus button, select your Skill, done. The prompt runs on the currently open page — or across multiple tabs simultaneously.
Google has launched over 50 pre-built Skills in a prompt library to get you started. Examples range from product comparisons across multiple tabs to extracting key information from lengthy documents.
Why This Matters
At first glance, this is ‘just’ a prompt library in your browser. But the crucial difference is context: Skills operate directly on the open webpage. That makes them significantly more useful than a saved prompt in a notes app.
To me, this feature shows where browser AI is heading. It’s no longer just about an AI sitting in your browser answering questions. It’s about AI working on what you’re currently looking at — using predefined workflows you’ve built yourself.
It reminds me of what Claude does with Cowork Skills — but directly in the browser and accessible to anyone running Chrome.
Availability
Skills are rolling out now for Chrome desktop — on Mac, Windows, and ChromeOS. The catch: your Chrome language needs to be set to English (US). Other languages should follow.
The English-only limitation is annoying but typical for Google launches. If you want to try it now, you’ll need to switch your language settings briefly.
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