Google Adds Saved Gemini Prompts to Chrome with New Skills Feature
TL;DR: Google has launched Skills in Chrome, letting users save Gemini prompts and run them across selected tabs with a single click. The feature rolls out today to desktop users whose browser language is set to US English, with a preset Skills library available for common workflows.
How the Feature Works
Once enabled, Skills surface via a forward slash ( / ) in Gemini or via a compass icon, and can be saved directly from chat history. They sync across desktops signed into the same Google account. Product manager Hafsah Ismail framed the pitch around repetitive prompting — for example, asking for vegan ingredient substitutions when browsing recipe sites — where retyping the same instruction is the friction being removed.
Early-tester examples cited by Google cluster in three areas: health and wellness calculations such as protein macros, shopping comparisons across multiple product pages, and summarising long documents. The preset library covers productivity, shopping, recipes and budgeting, and individual Skills can be edited. Actions with consequences, such as sending an email or adding a calendar event, still require explicit user confirmation.
Context: the Agentic Browser Race
The launch lands inside an increasingly crowded agentic-browser market. Chrome’s Gemini integration competes with OpenAI’s Atlas, Perplexity’s Comet and The Browser Company’s Dia, all of which have positioned the browser as the natural surface for consumer AI agents. TechCrunch reports that Skills reuse the same confirmation model Google has applied to other Gemini-in-Chrome actions, which reflects how seriously the company treats the distinction between read-only prompts and prompts that trigger external effects.
UK Availability Caveat
Because the rollout ties to US English specifically, Chrome users in the UK will not see Skills today even on English-language installs. Previous Gemini-in-Chrome features have followed a similar staggered path and extended to UK English within weeks to months; UK professional users wanting Skills now can switch language to US English, but at the cost of losing British English spelling conventions across the browser.
Looking Forward
For UK SMEs, the immediate practical question is not whether Skills will arrive — it will — but whether saved prompts become a meaningful productivity tool or another shelfware feature. The deciding factor is likely to be how easily teams can share Skills libraries across colleagues, which Google has not yet committed to. Operations leads evaluating browser choices should watch for an enterprise Skills export feature before standardising.