Google is adding more AI features to its Chrome web browser, the company announced Tuesday. We’re introducing a new feature called Skills that allows users to save and reuse their favorite AI prompts and run them across different web pages without having to type them again.
This feature is related to the integration of Google’s Gemini AI into Chrome, which has arrived alongside new competitors in the browser ecosystem from companies such as OpenAI (Atlas), Perplexity (Comet), and The Browser Company (Dia).
Gemini already allows users to ask questions about web pages, summarize their information, and perform various tasks. Skills go a step further and allow you to create AI prompts that users can access over and over again with just a click.
For example, Google suggests that if users frequently ask Gemini to suggest vegan alternatives when viewing recipe websites, they can save that prompt and make it available on different web pages.
To access this feature, save an AI prompt as a skill directly from your chat history. You can reuse your skill in Gemini in Chrome by typing a slash ( / ) or clicking the plus sign ( + ) button. The skill then runs on the displayed web page with any additional tabs selected.
Google says you can edit these skills at any time.
The company’s tests found that early adopters are using their skills in areas such as health and wellness, for example calculating protein macros in recipes, comparing shopping and scanning and summarizing long documents.
To help users get started with skills, the company will also launch a skills library that will provide common tasks and workflows in areas such as productivity, shopping, recipes, budgeting, and more. To use one of the preprogrammed skills, users simply add it to their saved skills in Chrome. You can also customize your skill to suit your users’ needs by editing prompts.
Like other Gemini actions in Chrome, your skill asks the user for confirmation before performing certain actions, such as sending an email or adding an event to your calendar.
Skills are rolling out today to Chrome desktop users who are signed in to their Google Accounts. This feature initially only works if the Chrome browser language is set to English (United States).
