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Google on Tuesday began introducing a new Chrome feature dubbed Skills, which allows users to store their favorite AI prompts—basically, those text instructions you type into an AI—and quickly reuse them across different webpages instead of having to manually enter them every time. The rollout starts with desktop users whose Chrome language is set to English-US.
This move pulls Gemini further into Chrome—Google’s browser had a commanding 66.7% share of the global market in March, StatCounter data shows. The timing lands as OpenAI, Perplexity, and The Browser Company are all rolling out browsers that feature AI: they promise to answer questions about your tabs, track context, and handle everyday chores.
According to Google, users can now save skills from Gemini chat history and bring them up again by typing a forward slash or tapping the plus button within Gemini in Chrome. Once launched, these skills operate right on the current page or across the tabs the user chooses, then sync automatically to any other Chrome desktop device linked to that Google account.
Google has rolled out a library stocked with over 50 pre-built Skills, aiming to speed up user onboarding. Wired notes that among these presets are tools for summarizing YouTube clips, drawing up product comparisons, scanning job ads, and tweaking recipes for vegan or high-protein diets.
Chrome product manager Hafsah Ismail put it this way: the goal is to let users “save and reuse your most helpful AI prompts” and “run them with a single click.” Google’s rolling out a way to turn repeated AI requests into shortcuts inside the browser, so users aren’t stuck retyping chat commands every time. Blog
Skills is the latest step in Google’s wider Chrome revamp, first detailed back in January. That’s when Chrome VP Parisa Tabriz called Gemini in Chrome the start of “a new era of browsing.” Since then, Google has expanded Gemini in Chrome to additional regions, introduced multi-tab context, and started rolling out features like auto browse for select users. Blog
The rollout, though, is limited—Skills arrives just on Mac, Windows, and ChromeOS, and only if Chrome’s set to English-US. Gemini’s integration in Chrome relies on content from your active tab, or, for desktop users, up to 10 tabs you decide to share. Before taking any sensitive steps like firing off an email or putting something on your calendar, Google says it will prompt you for confirmation.
Google hasn’t shared a timeline for rolling out Skills beyond English-US. Back in March, the company said Chrome’s AI tools would reach more regions and languages over the course of the year. With Skills, Chrome edges further from being just a browser with a chatbot; now, Google is positioning Gemini to take over more of users’ repetitive online tasks.
