Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

(blog.google)

78 points | by xnx 6 hours ago

19 comments

  • tholman 6 minutes ago
    Tried to visit the first domain, baydailymedia, but doesn't seem to exist... I know its unsurprising and not against the rules or even spirit of showing off your new toy, but some humor in the aria tag "Video of user creating a protein maxing Skill" and then within the video, a fat "Video for illustrative purposes" "Results may vary" "check response for accuracy"

    Second video seem's more real. And yeah, again not against the rules, but dropping onto website, no ads, prompting data out of it is very in the ethos of our current "lets just do an ai" era to be relevent era.

  • skeeter2020 4 hours ago
    my most commonly repeated prompt; would be nice if the baked it into the tool itself:

    "No emojis. be concise. no suggestions unless I explicitly ask for them. answer questions like the machine you are. Don't try and add personality or humour; remember you're a robot."

    • ody4242 3 hours ago
    • vasco 2 hours ago
      > Don't try and add personality or humour; remember you're a robot."

      > remember you're a robot."

      The anthropomorphization juxtaposed to the actual command is a bit ironic.

      • sublinear 1 hour ago
        It really does make you wonder why all the models seem to require that. In principle, it shouldn't be a property of LLMs, and lol no it's not an "emergent property".
        • embedding-shape 1 hour ago
          Post-training and "human preference" according to "data". Don't know a single developer who use these tools for work who prefer that though, but also don't know anyone who use LLMs a lot just "for fun" either, might just be vastly different preferences between the two userbases.
    • sva_ 1 hour ago
      I'd add "no ass-kissing"
    • the13 2 hours ago
      I like it. Have you tried putting this in your LLM system prompt?
    • b00ty4breakfast 1 hour ago
      need prompt macros
  • _doctor_love 4 hours ago
    I really hope this doesn't have the same security model as Chrome Extensions!

    I can see the appeal of this feature and I am generally speaking an AI booster.

    On the other hand...like...wat? This feature feels way too premature and risky to let loose on the public.

    • decimalenough 2 hours ago
      There are no third-party Skills, you can only create your own or use Google's readymade ones.
      • sheept 45 minutes ago
        If you can create your own, what's stopping you from copy pasting someone else's?
  • ButlerianJihad 37 minutes ago
    Over the past few months, more than a few Google Doodles have simply been Gemini search prompts. This was extremely underwhelming as I usually expect a fun game or some kind of clever hack to ensue. I was also rather irate that Google could simply insert some false prompt into my Gemini conversation history. "I did not say that!"

    Furthermore, it led me to muse whether "Prompt Gemini for <xxx>" was a thing that any URL could do? If I went to a random malicious website, could they prompt Gemini to do something for me? If Gemini was hooked up to my Gmail, could a malicious prompt delete all my email, and all it would take is a misclick? Chilling.

  • parasti 3 hours ago
    These days announcements like this just make me want to put on my tinfoil hat - what's in it for Google, though? Why make it more convenient for people to submit webpages to you?
    • blcknight 28 minutes ago
      Lots of people are flocking to Claude and ChatGPT -- and making Gemini more useful in the browser everyone already has makes a lot of sense.

      More Google use, more data they gather, more ads they can show you

    • kllrnohj 2 hours ago
      Presumably the upside for Google is they'll just lock it behind the "Google AI Plus" subscription plan if it isn't already
    • amelius 2 hours ago
      Yes. We desperately need more local models.
  • hotsalad 2 hours ago
    So, bookmarklets for Chrome's AI integration?
  • woodydesign 2 hours ago
    My prompt collection lives in three different places right now — Raycast snippets, Apple Notes, and a Notion page that keeps growing. I know I wrote a good one for my git commit/push flow somewhere, but finding it when I need it usually takes longer than just rewriting it.

    The browser approach makes sense for Claude code and ChatGPT. I wonder how well it holds up once you have 50+ prompts though — finding the right one fast is the real problem for me.

    • qingcharles 1 hour ago
      My prompt collection simply lives in my chat history. I just hit search and type in something unique I remember.

      This is cleaner, though :)

  • orwin 5 hours ago
    I hate that. I understand that it might be useful, and tbh, on personnal PC, i'm not even concerned. But it is going towards people pushing to replace XQL or other query languages with prompting in natural languages, for no good reasons. Generate your query and copy paste if you don't want to read the documentation man, but please, please keep an intermediary between the LLM and the real world data. The last time your fucking prompt gave me a "log overview" i lost 2 hours understanding what the fuck i was reading, when a query would have taken me at most 20 minutes.

    Convert my AI prompt into the code for a one-click tool, let me read and share it, that would be _great_.

    • jampekka 4 hours ago
      The examples in TFA don't really seem suitable for code, unless that code is a wrapper for calling LLMs.

      "Health & Wellness: quickly calculating protein macros for any recipe

      Shopping: generating side-by-side spec comparisons across multiple tabs

      Productivity: scanning lengthy documents for important information"

  • OsrsNeedsf2P 1 hour ago
    Looks like it's read-only access. I'll still be using Claude Code with a Chrome MCP
  • pacman1337 3 hours ago
    I need skill to block ads
  • marsavar 4 hours ago
    Who wants this?
    • nine_k 4 hours ago
      I can imagine a moderator, or a marketing person, wanting such a tool. "Respond to this post in a polite and friendly manner, thank the user for choosing our company, discovering a problem, and taking the time to report it. Promise to sort this out quickly. If the user is really angry and threatens legal action, promise an immediate refund, and shoot me an email with the summary of the issue, and all the details."

      If instead of a copy-pasting spree, or setting up a whateverClaw, the user might just click a button in Chrome, it could be actually useful. (Consider a dozen such buttons.)

    • the13 2 hours ago
      OP. & I bet some people will want to play with it at least. Maybe it'll inspire builders to build something they themselves want.
    • qingcharles 1 hour ago
      Me. I have a prompt I use to get alt text and caption ideas for photos. I basically copy/paste it each time. This will save a step.
    • gardenhedge 4 hours ago
      I can immediately think of personal use cases for this.
      • the13 2 hours ago
        Any you can share?
  • skybrian 3 hours ago
    This sounds to me like yet another way to automate filling out forms. I had been thinking about vibe-coding a Chrome extension for one form I fill in regularly, but perhaps this is easier.
  • hypfer 3 hours ago
    Ah yes. Ticks all the boxes

    - Becoming a Platform

    - AI

    - User-generated content

    [list continues]

    There is something comforting about seeing that the SV stopped having ideas and now just recycles and recombines the same tropes over and over again.

    It's still all terrible, but it's a devil you know. You can live with that. You can skip the broken stair and duck, knowing exactly when they're trying to punch you in the face again.

    Now here's hoping that eventually, they get bored and just stop entirely.

  • jeffbee 5 hours ago
    I would be more excited by this if there was a better permissions model for these things. For example I can think of a skill that would need access to a certain corpus of documents that I host on Google Drive, but, as far as I have been able to determine using Google's other AI products, there is no way for me to grant read-only access to that corpus without granting read-write access to all of my data on Google, which is simply too much access for my taste. There has to be something less binary than Personalization:on/off?
  • christoff12 5 hours ago
    This could be interesting
  • PunchTornado 4 hours ago
    Jesus, I don't want to be mean, but some things that Google creates are completeyl useless...
  • fragrom 4 hours ago
    [dead]
  • mwkaufma 4 hours ago
    Never before have people been able to effortlessly visualize whole landing pages to tell them to put glue on pizza.
  • londons_explore 3 hours ago
    So much of the web has no API anymore and is hostile to robots.

    The script to turn the coffee maker on when dad posts on Facebook for the first time each morning that worked in 2014 won't work anymore in 2026.

    Having this sort of thing built into a mainstream browser will open up a new avenue for automation, which I think will be a good thing for breaking down data silos and being good for the world overall.

    • croes 3 hours ago
      Just ignore the unreliability and the waste of resources