https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/chrome/skills-in-chrome/
Article
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Chrome ‘Skills’ let users save prompts as one-click toolbar buttons powered by Gemini
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Rolling out on Mac/Windows/ChromeOS for English-US users only
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Aims to turn repeated AI workflows into browser-native tools
Discussion
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Security concerns: introducing an ‘APT’ into a browser decades of sandboxing hardened
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Cynicism about Google’s motive: more page submissions = more data for Google
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WebMCP API floated as a better structured alternative to raw DOM/HTML agent access
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Commenters call it ‘bookmarklets for AI’ — familiar concept, new wrapper
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