# Google AI Skills `google/skills` is Google's open repository of **[[AI Agent Skills]] for Google products and technologies**, designed to be installed into agents via Google's Agent Platform. It is Google adopting the same Agent Skills pattern (Markdown instructions + executable code, progressively disclosed) that Anthropic popularized — see [[Claude Code Skills]] and [[Cursor Skills]]. ## Key points - **What it ships** — skills under `skills/cloud/` covering Google's AI/agent APIs (Gemini API, Gemini Interactions API, Managed Agents API, Skill Registry API) and Cloud services (BigQuery, AlloyDB, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Firebase, GKE). - **Recipes & frameworks** — onboarding, authentication, network observability, and the Well-Architected Framework (security, reliability, cost, ops, performance, sustainability). - **Install** — `npx skills add google/skills`, then pick which skills to include; distributed as modules through the Agent Platform. - **Format** — mostly Python with shell scripts; Markdown docs paired with executable components. - **License & scale** — Apache 2.0; ~12.8k stars, actively developed. ## Why it matters Agent Skills are converging into a cross-vendor standard. With Anthropic (Claude), Cursor, and now Google all shipping skill repositories in the same shape, "skills" looks set to become the portable unit of agent capability — which is exactly the [[AI Skill Portability]] / [[AI Skill Distribution]] thesis. Google's bet here is to make its entire Cloud + Gemini surface agent-installable. Relevant to anyone using the [[Gemini CLI]]. ## References - Repository: https://github.com/google/skills ## Related - [[NVIDIA SkillSpector]] - [[AI Agent Skills]] - [[Claude Code Skills]] - [[Cursor Skills]] - [[Gemini CLI]] - [[Google]] - [[AI Skill Distribution]]