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Chrome adds Gemini Skills to save and run reusable prompts
Google is rolling out Skills in Chrome for desktop users in the United States to save prompts, run them across tabs and sync them across devices.
Apr 14th 2026 · United States
Insights
- Skills let users save prompts and invoke them by typing / in Gemini's Chrome sidebar.
- Saved Skills run across tabs, applying prompts to page content with a single click.
- Users can save Skills from conversation history and edit or delete them in a management panel.
- Google offers a library of more than 50 Skills, including YouTube summaries, multi-tab product comparisons, job-offer evaluation and recipe protein optimization.
- Skills sync across desktop devices on Windows, Mac and ChromeOS, require explicit confirmation for sensitive actions, follow Gemini privacy protections and are available in English only in the United States but can be turned off in Settings.
Sources
- Chrome Skills let you save your favorite Gemini prompts for easy access www.engadget.com
- Chrome now lets you turn AI prompts into repeatable ‘Skills’ www.theverge.com
- Google adds AI Skills to Chrome to help you save favorite workflows techcrunch.com
- Google introduces "Skills" in Chrome to make Gemini prompts instantly reusable arstechnica.com
- Gemini’s Skills are bookmarks for your AI prompts www.pcworld.com
- Google announces ‘Skills’ for Gemini in Chrome to quickly run custom workflows 9to5google.com
- Si usas Gemini y ya te cansaste de repetir prompts, Chrome tiene una nueva función que te cambiará la vida hipertextual.com