Google Skills
Google's official Agent Skills catalog provides selectively installable guidance, references, scripts, and plugin entry points for Google Cloud, Ads, Analytics, and developer platforms.
Project overview
Google Skills is Google's official Agent Skills catalog. It is not a single application: it is a set of selectively installable instructions and supporting resources. The generated index currently lists 127 Skills spanning Google Cloud, GKE, AI/ML, databases and analytics, security and identity, Ads, Analytics, and developer documentation retrieval. The repository also exposes plugin marketplace entry points, but dependencies, permissions, and data access depend on the exact Skill or plugin selected.
Core capabilities
Broad Google Cloud catalog
The catalog covers onboarding, architecture, Agent Platform, GKE, databases, observability, deployment, security, identity, and Well-Architected Framework topics.
On-demand discovery
finding-google-skills fetches and validates the generated index within the current session, narrows the result to at most three matches, and loads only the matching SKILL.md files.
gcloud safety guardrails
The gcloud Skill requires leaf-level help validation, constrained list output, explicit project and location scope, and human approval for IAM, deletion, billing, organization, and KMS operations.
Authentication and least privilege
The authentication Skill distinguishes human, application, and service identities, favors short-lived credentials and federation, and warns against long-lived service-account keys.
Grounded developer documentation retrieval
The Developer Knowledge Skill supports MCP or REST fallback and requires explicit checks for authentication errors, empty results, and error payloads before treating retrieval as successful.
Installation and usage
Run the documented npx command in an Agent Skills-compatible host, select only the Google Skills required for the current task, and begin with a read-only or least-privilege verification before allowing scripts, network access, or cloud changes.
Let an AI Agent install it
Send this prompt to Codex, Claude Code, or another AI agent that can work with your local environment.
Install Google Skills from https://github.com/google/skills. Read the README and the selected Skill's SKILL.md, references, and scripts first. Run only the documented npx skills add google/skills command and let me select the individual Skills. After installation, report the actual destination and installed names, then verify loading with a read-only minimal task. Before invoking gcloud, Google APIs, remote MCP services, reading credentials, writing project files, incurring cost, or changing cloud resources, explain the data boundary and least privileges and ask me. Never autonomously perform IAM, deletion, billing, organization, or KMS operations.- A Node.js environment with npx; the repository does not state a minimum Node.js version
- Network access to github.com and raw.githubusercontent.com
- An Agent Skills-compatible host with permission to write to its Skill installation directory
- A Google account, project ID, gcloud, or API credentials only when the selected Skill's task requires them
npx skills add google/skills- 1Choose the host and target Skill
Find the task-specific Skill in the README or index.json, read its description, safeguards, references, and scripts, and confirm that the target host supports Agent Skills.
- 2Run the documented selection command
Run npx skills add google/skills in the target environment and select only the reviewed Skills. Do not invent a minimum Node.js version that the repository does not state.
- 3Inspect the installed result
Have the host list installed Skills and verify the name, source repository, and actual SKILL.md. If the host does not recognize it, inspect the CLI output and target path before touching cloud resources.
- 4Perform a read-only verification
Ask a read-only question that clearly matches the selected Skill. For gcloud work, the first action should be leaf-level help validation, not a resource-changing command.
- 5Grant later permissions one by one
Provide project IDs, credentials, network access, or script execution only when required, and retain human approval for IAM, deletion, billing, organization, KMS, and cost-bearing operations.
List installed Skills in the host and confirm the selected Google Skill and its SKILL.md are visible. Then ask a read-only question that clearly matches that Skill's description and confirm the host loads it. Do not use creation, modification, deletion, or IAM commands as the first test.
- The npx command opens a selection flow; the README does not document a non-interactive preselection flag
- Avoid installing all 127 Skills at once; task-specific selection reduces context and permission exposure
- There is no stable Release or tag, so production users should record the reviewed commit SHA
- Plugin installation and Skill installation use different commands
- The catalog itself needs no Google credential; credential needs come from later tasks in specific Skills
Use cases
Teams that want coding agents to follow Google-authored product guidance
Users who prefer installing only the Google Skills relevant to a current task
Workflows that benefit from gcloud syntax validation, reduced output, and human approval for high-risk operations
Projects involving Google Cloud, Ads, Analytics, Firebase, GKE, or Gemini
Assessment
Why it may be useful
- Teams that want coding agents to follow Google-authored product guidance
- Users who prefer installing only the Google Skills relevant to a current task
- Workflows that benefit from gcloud syntax validation, reduced output, and human approval for high-risk operations
- Projects involving Google Cloud, Ads, Analytics, Firebase, GKE, or Gemini
What to know first
- Users who need a single application with uniform dependencies and permissions
- Teams unable to review scripts, network access, credentials, and cloud permissions for each selected Skill
- Production processes that require a stable release or tag for the complete catalog
- Unattended execution of IAM, deletion, billing, organization, or KMS changes
README
Google Skills
Overview
Google's official Agent Skills catalog provides selectively installable guidance, references, scripts, and plugin entry points for Google Cloud, Ads, Analytics, and developer platforms. Agent Skills for Google products and technologies
Getting started
- Run the documented npx command in an Agent Skills-compatible host, select only the Google Skills required for the current task, and begin with a read-only or least-privilege verification before allowing scripts, network access, or cloud changes.
- The README defines the project as a repository of Agent Skills for Google products and technologies and marks it as under active development.
- The documented installation path is npx skills add google/skills, followed by selecting individual Skills from the repository.
- List installed Skills in the host and confirm the selected Google Skill and its SKILL.md are visible. Then ask a read-only question that clearly matches that Skill's description and confirm the host loads it. Do not use creation, modification, deletion, or IAM commands as the first test.
Configuration
npx skills add google/skills