Google adds AI Skills to Chrome, letting you save prompts for any website

Google is expanding Gemini's integration with the Chrome browser. The company is adding a feature called Skills, which lets users save AI prompts and reuse them on any site. It runs on top of the existing Gemini integration and adds a layer of personalization: the assistant starts to remember how you usually work and offers the right scenarios at the right moment.

Gemini arrived in Chrome in 2024. At first it could be called up from the address bar, and later Google added an assistant side panel. Still, every interaction started from scratch, and users had to type similar requests again and again. Skills addresses this: a prompt you configure once becomes a named skill, available from the context menu or the side panel on any browser page.

The practical uses are many. Set up a prompt like "summarize the article in three points" and it appears next to any long text. Save the instruction "translate into English and check business tone" and you can use it in email, Google Docs or any online editor. Create a skill to "collect key data from the page into a table" and it works on a news site, a job listings page or any other resource. Skills effectively turns Gemini from a one-off helper into a personalized assistant that is always at hand and does not require switching context.

For Google, this is a strategically important move in its competition with Microsoft, which has steadily been embedding Copilot into Edge and the whole Microsoft 365 suite. Chrome holds about 65% of the global desktop browser market against 13% for Edge. If Skills proves genuinely useful, Google gets a direct channel to hundreds of millions of users, with no need for them to change services or install extensions. Microsoft is betting on deep integration with Office; Google responds through the browser, Android and Workspace.

There are also open questions about the implementation. Saved skills will be tied to the Google profile and synced across devices. That is convenient, but it means prompts end up in the company's infrastructure. This is especially sensitive for corporate users: prompts often contain confidential instructions about internal processes, communication style or product specifics. It is still unclear how Google will handle this data, whether Skills will be available in incognito mode, and whether corporate controls through Google Workspace Admin are planned.

Availability details have not been disclosed. It is unknown whether all Chrome users will get Skills for free or only Google One AI Premium subscribers, how flexible the skill editor will be, and whether skills can be shared with colleagues. Judging by the announcement, the feature is at an early stage, and a full release is expected later in 2026.

Skills fits into the broader trend of personalizing AI tools. Users are tired of generic chatbots that have to be taught the context anew each time. Apple Intelligence offers customizable scenarios for Siri, OpenAI is developing long-term memory in ChatGPT, and startups are building platforms for managing prompts inside teams. Google holds a unique position: the browser, as an entry point, is already installed for most users. What remains is to make it smart enough that they have no reason to go back to competitors.