Google adds AI Skills to Chrome to help you save favorite workflows | TechCrunch

Google is adding more AI capabilities to its Chrome web browser, the company announced on Tuesday. It’s introducing a new feature called Skills, which will allow users to save and reuse their favorite AI prompts that can run across different web pages without having to type them in again. The feature ties into Google’s integration of its Gemini AI into Chrome, which arrived alongside a slate of new competitors in the browser ecosystem from companies like OpenAI (Atlas), Perplexity (Comet), and The Browser Company (Dia), among others. Gemini already allows users to ask questions about a webpage, summarize its information, or perform various tasks. Skills will take it a step further by allowing users to create AI prompts that can be accessed time and again with just a click. For instance, Google suggests that if a user often asks Gemini to suggest vegan substitutions when looking at recipe websites, they can now save that prompt so it can be used across different webpages. Image Credits:Google To access the feature, save the AI prompt as a Skill directly from chat history. The Skill can then be reused in Gemini in Chrome by typing a forward slash ( / ) or clicking the plus sign ( + ) button. The Skill will then run on the webpage that’s being viewed, along with any additional tabs that have been selected. These Skills can also be edited at any time, Google notes. ScreenshotImage Credits:Google In tests, the company found that early adopters used Skills in areas like health a...