Gemini in Chrome adds saved "スキル" prompts

The piece is written as a beginner's guide rather than a product announcement, and its premise is that AI tools on phones and PCs have become ordinary enough that even people who have never really used them need hints. Within that frame, the interesting detail is how Google exposes repeated instructions: rather than a separate skill library, the entry point is the prompt box itself, where a slash summons the saved list.

The three examples are chosen to show what "a skill" is worth doing at all. The column concedes that simple requests like "summarize this" barely save effort over typing the prompt by hand, so its samples bundle several constraints — a fixed structure, a child-level vocabulary, a rule against taking sides — into one stored instruction. The shopping and gourmet-video examples go further, specifying output formats and telling the assistant to label guesses as possibilities rather than state them as fact.

Read together, the examples suggest the practical value lies less in the assistant's raw ability than in packaging a repeatable procedure once and reusing it, which the column presents as a way to make browsing more enjoyable rather than as a productivity claim.