Skills ain't skills
Google announced Skills for Gemini yesterday. Same word as the Skills in Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Cowork. Different thing.
In a post on Google’s blog, Gemini product manager Deven Tokuno describes Skills as reusable custom instructions. You save them once and call them by typing a forward slash and the skill’s name. You can build one from an existing chat, stack several together and attach reference files such as PDFs and images. Sharing is promised, with details to come.