Google today updated the desktop version of Chrome browser, adding a "Skills Library" to the Gemini function, allowing users to save commonly used AI tasks as "skills" and reuse them on any website with one click. Useful prompt words created by users in Gemini can be saved directly as skills and recalled later with a single click, eliminating the need to re-enter the entire question.
For example, when a user asks Gemini about the meaning of the ingredients of a certain product when browsing skin care products on a shopping website, such questions can be saved as skills and directly called when making similar queries on other pages in the future.
Google said that test users have used this feature in multiple categories to complete different tasks, including quickly calculating protein intake for any recipe in the "Health and Wellness" scenario, generating side-by-side comparisons of product specifications across multiple tabs in the "Shopping" scenario, and scanning long documents to extract key information in the "Efficiency" scenario. Users can save skills directly from the chat history in the Chrome sidebar (with Gemini enabled) and recall them by typing a slash followed by the skill name, or by clicking the plus icon. The selected skill will run on the page you are currently browsing and can also work on other selected tabs.
While launching custom skills capabilities, Google has also preset a batch of "library skills" for Gemini for common tasks and workflows, covering scenarios such as viewing ingredients, finding gifts for others, and finding substitute ingredients in recipes. These predefined skills can be personalized and adjusted according to user needs to form automated prompts that are more in line with personal usage habits.
When a user triggers something through a skill that results in a subsequent action, such as adding an event to a calendar or sending an email, Gemini will confirm before executing, consistent with how other Gemini actions currently interact in Chrome. Google said that the skills feature will be rolled out to the desktop version of Chrome, and will be gradually opened to the first batch of users who set their browser language to US English.