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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.