Google Chrome adds a Skills feature! One-click to call your go-to AI prompts

Google has been rolling out Gemini’s sidebar, its Auto Browse agent, and Imagen 3 image generation technology since the beginning of the year. Recently, Google Chrome announced a new feature called “Skills,” which lets users save frequently used AI prompts directly. In the future, they’ll be able to call them again with just one click, greatly reducing the tedious back-and-forth of repeated typing and pushing the browser experience to a new level of automation.

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Chrome’s built-in Skills shortcut to quickly call AI prompts

In the past, when using AI to assist with web browsing, if you wanted to repeatedly run specific prompt-based tasks, you often had to rely on third-party extensions like “Gemini Voyager,” among others.

Now, Chrome has built this need directly into the browser by introducing its dedicated “Skills” feature. All users have to do is save their commonly used prompts. Later, in the Gemini input box, type the forward slash “/”, or click the “+” symbol next to it, and you can quickly bring up your dedicated Skill for a convenient one-click execution experience.

Supports cloud sync and a built-in preset database: seamless pairing across devices

A created Skill can be customized with its own name and dedicated emoji, and is tied to your Google account for cross-device syncing—so when you log in on another computer, you can use it right away. In addition, the official team also provides a preset database that covers categories such as research, shopping, and writing, allowing users to apply or slightly tweak existing instructions to quickly build a personal AI toolkit.

Cross-tab analysis and privacy security safeguards

One major highlight of the Skills feature is its “cross-tab” capability. Users can add multiple web pages at once, enabling the AI to analyze them simultaneously and generate consolidated information. For example, it can read multiple e-commerce pages to produce a price-comparison table, or summarize multiple long-form documents.

On the cybersecurity and privacy front, if a command involves privacy actions such as sending emails or adding events to a calendar, the system will force a pop-up window to appear. The action will only execute after the user manually agrees, strictly guarding data security.

Limited to the English interface for now; cross-language support may come in the future

At present, the Skills feature is only available to users on Windows, Mac, and ChromeOS platforms whose Chrome language setting is “American English.” However, considering that Gemini’s sidebar has already fully supported more than 50 languages including Traditional Chinese, it’s expected that cross-language support for Skills is only a matter of time.

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