Google has cast Skills in Chromea feature that allows users to save Gemini AI generates reusable workflows and activates them on any web page with a single action. The launch begins today for desktop users on windowsmacOS and ChromeOS who are signed in to Gemini with English set as the language. Google says it may take a few days for it to reach all eligible devices.
How Chrome Skills Work with Gemini
When a user types a Gemini message in the Chrome side panel that they want to reuse, they can save it directly from their chat history as a skill. Saved skills can be accessed by typing a forward slash (/) in the Gemini side panel and selecting the desired workflow from the list.
The selected skill runs on the currently active page. Users can also select multiple tabs to run a skill on all of them simultaneously, allowing the same message to process content from multiple pages at once.
Skills and Privacy Library in Chrome
Google is launching a new skill library that offers out-of-the-box workflows for common tasks. Examples include comparing product specifications side by side during purchase, calculating protein macros from online recipes, and scanning long PDF files for specific information. Users can customize these skill templates by saving a pre-built skill to their personal list and editing the underlying prompts to suit their needs, without having to start from scratch.
For skills that handle private data, such as adding details to a calendar or composing an email, Chrome will ask for manual confirmation before performing the action. Google says the skills are built on the same security foundation as the rest of Chrome.
Skills launch today on desktop. Google has not provided a timeline for when they will be available on mobile devices or support languages other than English.
