Google Gemini Skills Are Finally Here

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Original language: English

Original video: Google Gemini Skills Are Finally Here · Channel: Skill Leap AI · 13:04 · Watch on YouTube

Topics: AI agents, Task and workflow automation, AI models

Summary

Google Gemini now supports reusable skills in both Gemini Chat and Gemini Spark, letting users teach the AI a preferred way to handle recurring tasks. The video demonstrates how to create skills through prompts, upload skill files, or use Gemini’s guided creation and editing tools. Ten examples cover tasks such as meeting recaps, writing in your style, proposals, summaries, data snapshots, status updates, meeting preparation, brainstorming, SOPs, and repurposing content. The presenter recommends focusing on tasks done regularly and notes that Spark is useful for creating outputs such as PDFs.

Key points

Skills save instructions for a task so Gemini can apply the same approach in future chats.
Skills work in Gemini Chat and Gemini Spark, which the presenter describes as Gemini’s AI agent.
Skills can be created with Gemini, entered manually, or added by uploading a skill file or folder.
The main instruction file is typically a Markdown file, and a skill can also include supporting resources.
The examples include meeting recaps, writing like the user, proposal writing, executive summaries, and spreadsheet summaries.
Multiple skills can be used together, such as combining a proposal-writing skill with a writing-style skill.
Skills can be edited with Gemini or manually, so updates apply to future uses.
Spark is presented as a useful option when the desired output is a formatted file such as a PDF.
The presenter recommends creating skills for recurring weekly tasks rather than making a large number for occasional tasks.

Chapters

Start	Chapter	Summary
00:00	Gemini skills and how to access them	The presenter introduces Gemini skills, explains how they compare with skills in other AI apps, and shows where to create or upload them.
02:36	Creating meeting recap and writing-style skills	The first demonstrations show how a skill can standardize meeting recaps and teach Gemini to write emails in the user’s style.
05:10	Uploading and combining skills	The video explains how to upload a skill file with supporting resources, edit it, and combine it with another skill to create a proposal and email.
07:15	Summaries, data snapshots, and weekly updates	The presenter demonstrates skills for executive summaries, spreadsheet insights, and consistent weekly status reports, including outputs in Spark.
09:22	Meeting preparation, brainstorming, and editing	Examples cover preparing a meeting brief and creating a brainstorming format, followed by an explanation of how to update a skill.
11:28	SOPs, content repurposing, and recommendations	The final examples turn rough process notes into an SOP and repurpose content, before the presenter recommends focusing on recurring tasks.

Quotes

This is where you teach the AI how you want to do something one time and then it does it every single time after that. — 00:00

That’s the whole point of the skill. — 03:38

So I could do this back to back like this. — 06:44

So, the next time you use it, it will just give you 10. — 10:56

I would only build skills for things you got to do every single week. — 12:33

Concepts and entities

skills, Google Gemini, Gemini Spark, skill.md, Google, Gmail, Google Docs

Full transcript (original language)

00:00 Gemini has finally added skills. And if you’ve seen my Claude and Chat GPT videos, you know skills are one of the best ways to get the most out of those apps. And this is the one feature I actually use myself every single day. This is where you teach the AI how you want to do something one time and then it does it every single time after that. And Google was one of the big three that didn’t have this option. Well, they changed that today. And skills are available right now inside of Gemini and inside of Gemini Spark, too. And if you don’t know what that is, I’ll point that

00:30 out too in this video. And I’m going to share a lot of practical skills in this video. So, I’m going to actually build 10 of them in this video. 10 of my all-time favorites. I also have built this inside of chat GPT and Claw 2. And before we create our very first skill here, I also want to share a free guide with you that I put together just for this video with my team. And it has the 10 skills from this exact video. So, you could copy and paste the prompt that I used to create this skill or the actual skills file, too. You could actually download those. But I also included 15

01:02 more skills for a total of 25 different all-time favorite skills that I couldn’t fit all in this one video, and it includes other resources all about building skills. So, I’ll put a link in the description to that guide so you could grab it for free. So, inside of the Gemini website here, you have chat and then you have Spark. Spark is basically an AI agent that goes and does things for you. So if you use chat GPT, that’s chat GPT work. For example, Claude also has co-work. Well, Spark is the Gemini version of that that could do different things for you. But you’ll find skills right over here. And again,

01:34 skills works with Spark and he also works inside of Gemini chat. You could also press settings right over here and skills could be accessed from there, too. Now, here it’s going to help you create skills a couple of different ways. One is you could create with Gemini. You could also create manually here. So some of the examples that I’m going to share in that document I mentioned actually has all these. So you could copy and paste the title, the description, and the instructions and then you could create it that way. But manually, it’s way too hard to create it that way if you don’t have a resource.

02:05 So the other way to create it is you could also press the upload option. And this lets you upload a file or a folder. Typically what skills are are a MD file. That’s going to be the main instruction that you’re going to give Gemini to follow. But sometimes skill have other files too. So that’s why sometimes you may want to include an entire folder if you find skills elsewhere. It’s also going to give you some recommendation of different skills you could build. And then if you click create with Gemini, this is basically going to set up an interview format where you answer

02:36 questions and it will help you create a skill based on what you want to do. I actually like to create a skill just from the new chat window right here. And I could do that with a simple prompt that starts with create a skill and then I could tell it exactly what I want. So let’s get into the very first demo right now. This skill is going to create a meeting recap. So if you hold any kind of meeting and you take notes or transcript from that meeting, this is a good skill to build. So whenever I give you a meeting note or a transcript turning to a recap that has three different sections. And with these

03:07 skills, you could really dial in how you want that recap to look like. So every single meeting has something that is very consistent across your work. Now once it finishes up, it says the meeting recap skill is saved and active here. And then this shows you the instruction that skill has and all the different things I asked for over here. And this is a pretty simple one, but a really handy one. So now every single time I start a new chat, I could type in the slash sign here and that’s the new one I

03:38 just created. So, I could pull in that skill into chat this way. And then I also have to upload a file. In this case, it’s a transcript from a meeting. Lots of different apps like Granola that could do that. And this is the transcript here. It’s a text file. And as you could see, I did not type in a prompt. I didn’t give it any context. I didn’t have to explain what I was looking for. That’s the whole point of the skill. So, you could just bring the skill, give it the file, and it will give you the output that you want every single time in the same way. And one of my favorite parts with Gemini is when you press these three dots, you could

04:09 draft it directly in Gmail here or you could save it directly to your Google Docs from there. This next one is probably the most handy skill you can create and that’s a skill to write like you to teach it your writing style so it can mimic it. So the prompt says create a skill called write like me. And then I told it I’m going to give it three emails that I attached so it could copy my tone and how I structure my sentences and so forth. Now, the key with this is those three emails. The prompt is actually pretty simple, but you want to really take your time because the source

04:39 you’re given it to train it on has to be what you want. Okay, write like me skill is completed here. Let’s go ahead and start a new chat again. I’m going to type in slash bring in that. And this time, I’m going to say reply to this email. And I’m going to paste an email here. And it’s going to know how to reply to this email. The one key about write like me is this is for emails. You could actually make multiple skills like this for different things. So if you want one just for emails to clients, you could specifically make one just for

05:10 that. And based on my training data, the email is always going to be short. It’s going to be pretty straightforward and direct and it doesn’t sound AI at all. Now, for this next example, I want to show you how to actually add a skill instead of creating one with chat because a lot of times you may find a skill that someone shared with you. The guide I mentioned in the beginning of the video has ton of skills you might want to bring in. And you may find some online, too. So, you could actually go over here. I’m just going to go and extend this out. And we’re going to go to the skills section. And we’re going to go ahead and upload a skill right

05:42 here. So, basically each skill at its core is a skill.md file. This is just a text file. It’s a set of instructions here. It also has a name and a description of what that skill is. So, this is one for the proposal writer that I’m going to add right now. And then you typically can have other resources with the skill. So, this one shows the pricing and the services, for example, as a CSV file. And then I just have to select how many files I want to use. In this case, just these two here. Drop it in this box. And it fills the title, the

06:14 description here, and the instructions for that skill. And I could create a skill from here. So if you do find things online, this is a much faster way to create skills here. And any of these skills could be edited, too. So you could edit with Gemini. You could edit manually to make it your own here. And then you could always download and share and replace this skill from this page, too. Now, to demo this one, I actually want to show you something new. I want to show you how to use two skills at once. So if I type in slash here, I’m going to bring in the proposal writer skill. But I also wanted to write like

06:44 me, too. So I could do this back to back like this. Now this prompt is going to ask for multiple different things here, but I could include it in the same prompt with these two different skills. So he gave me the proposal here in text format and he also gave me the email here to send to Rob. And then I followed that up with give this to me as a PDF here that I could download and then created a PDF right inside of chat. Skill number four is to create an executive summary. So if you have a boss or if you’re the boss, this is the one that you’ll probably use all the time. I get sent long reports all the time and I

07:15 typically use AI to summarize it. I typically don’t read all the way through every type of report that I get. So this time we’re gonna actually create something better than that which is going to be executive summary than just a long report that typically people are not going to read anyway. So I’m going to create a skill here called executive summary. And I said whenever I upload a long document, give me a one-page summary with three different parts. And these are the parts I care about here. So, I’m going to go ahead and create that skill. Okay. Now, what I’m going to do is I have this 14page PDF here. I’m

07:46 going to upload that to chat. And I’m going to bring in this skill, this executive summary skill. And I didn’t include any additional prompt here. And it gave me the recap. And I typically like to save these on my Google Drive here. So, I exported to Doc. This is what it ends up looking like. And I could easily edit it. But I typically just like to have a folder for these type of things in my drive. And by the way, you could do the exact same thing here inside of Spark. So if you switch over with this toggle to spark instead of chat, you could basically do the exact same thing and these could create different types of things for you. So in

08:18 this case, I wanted a PDF format and this gives you nicely formatted PDFs like this too. So use Spark if you want your output to be something that it creates. Now this next one, data snapshot, does the same type of thing, but it’s when you upload a spreadsheet or any kind of data file. So, this will tell you in plain English what that document is all about. So, I’m going to go ahead and create that skill with this. And with the Excel file uploaded, with that skill pulled in, it created a really nice and easy to read summary here. And he also created a chart that

08:51 shows us the data in a different way, in a visual way. This next Gemini skill will create a weekly status update. So, I’m just going to upload some notes that I took throughout the week on things that I got done. And it will create something for my manager here. Okay. Now, I’m going to pull in that skill here. And I just have some rough notes from the week. I’ll send this out. And the nice thing about this skill is it will create it in this format every single time. So, every time I come here, I could copy and paste it, send it via email or on Slack, and it will look like

09:22 this every single week and keep things consistent. Now, this next one, prep my meeting, is going to prepare you for your upcoming meeting. So, it says, “Before a meeting, when I give you a background file, write a one-page brief with context.” This is also great to share with other people that are going to be in the meeting. And for this one, I usually have just couple of files handy. So, one is going to be kind of the client brief here, who they are, their contact information, what they want, what the proposal is. And this one is just a email thread. So, you could copy and paste your email threads into a nice organized text doc like this. And

09:54 then you just upload those two onto chat. Now the one pager is going to give the context what we want out of the meeting, what to watch out for, and who’s attending the meeting. Now with these type of inputs, the reason why I get it in text format like this is because I usually click draft to Gmail directly from here or save it from doc. But again, using Spark will give you PDFs and things like that. That’s not going to be a consistent thing out of regular chat in Gemini. So I usually use Spark for that type of output. For number eight, we’re going to create a brainstorming skill. And I also want to

10:24 show you how to edit and skill after you create it. So I said, whenever I ask for ideas, give me exactly five bullet point list. Each one needs a quick pros and cons and put a oneline recommendation on top. So now if I ask for fall promotion ideas here, it’s going to always give it to me in that format. Recommendation on top, the five here with the pros and cons listed. But let’s say I don’t have enough examples here. I actually want 10. So, I could ask for more here, but with skills, you want to actually update the skill. So, the next time you use it,

10:56 it will just give you 10. You don’t have to do a follow-up. So, I’m going to go back to settings over here, and I’m going to go to skills. And the easiest way to edit a skill from this page is edit with Gemini instead of edit manually. So, I’m just going to add I want 10 ideas instead of five. And if your skill is simple, you could just edit it manually. So, I could change it to 10 ideas here. And I could just copy and paste the other idea formats in the way I want here. So sometimes it’s easier for simpler skills, but the Gemini chat is also another way to do it. The next one is an SOP writer. So if

11:28 you have to make SOPs, you know, they’re really handy, but they’re kind of annoying to create. Well, this one will create a repeatable SOP for you. So I just said when I describe how I do a task, even if it’s messy, turn it into a step-by-step process. That’s what SOPs are. And then it’s going to number the steps. It’s going to say who each one is assigned to and if they have to use a specific tool to get that job done. By the way, if you create a lot of skills, you could just type in the skills name, how it starts, and it will find that skill for you. So, it has a search

12:00 option. And for this one, I’m just going to explain how I do a process. So, what happens when a client signs up? Do they get a welcome email? And then what happens after that? And it titled it here nicely. It formatted it into sections here with bullet points. So much better formatting than my messy notes. And this one is to repurpose content. Whenever I upload a piece of content, turn it into the following. And I just told it what I’m looking for. And for this one, I have a Word doc. And I’m going to use repurpose and write like me skills. I’m going to combine those two. And here we got our LinkedIn post, our expost, and our newsletter blurb. So if

12:33 you’re just starting with skills, especially in Gemini, I would use a combination of those 10. I wouldn’t build a ton of skills, by the way. I would only build skills for things you got to do every single week. For everything else, you could just do normal prompting. And I also have 15 extra skills plus this 10 for a total of 25 in that guide that I mentioned. So, if you want to build them, that’s a really easy way to build them. You could just copy and paste the prompts I have there or download the skill file. Again, that’s linked in the description. Now, I did mention Gemini Spark a bunch of times in this video, but I didn’t really dive too much into it, but I did cover

13:04 it in a dedicated video right after it came out. So, I’ll include that video over here.