Google launched Chrome Skills, a feature that turns your best AI prompts into reusable one-click slash commands inside the browser. Instead of rewriting or copy-pasting the same long prompt every time you want a translation, a code review, a pricing summary, or a meeting recap, you can save it once and invoke it anywhere with a short slash command.
The flow starts from chat history. When you find a prompt that worked well, a 'Save as Skill' action lets you pick a trigger like /review or /summarize, optionally add placeholder variables, and pin it to Chrome. From then on, typing the slash command in Chrome's address bar, a webpage field, or the Gemini side panel runs that prompt against the selected content or the active tab.
A few details worth noting:
Skills are personal to your Google account and sync across devices, so a command you create on your laptop is available on your work machine and phone.
Skills can take context from the current tab — page content, selected text, screenshots — which makes them far more useful than static macros.
Google is also seeding a public Skills directory so users can share well-crafted commands, similar to how people share GPTs or custom agents today.
The framing is quiet but the implication is big: Google is pushing power users to treat Chrome itself as the prompt runtime. Instead of jumping into ChatGPT or Gemini's web app, your most-used AI workflows live one slash away, right inside the browser you already use.