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google/skills

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18,010PythonAudience · ops devopsComplexity · 2/5Setup · easy

TLDR

Google's official collection of installable AI agent skills that teach coding assistants how to work with Google Cloud services like GKE, BigQuery, and Gemini.

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    What it does
      Bundles Google Cloud know how
      Installable agent skills
      Actively maintained by Google
    Tech stack
      Python
      Agent Skills format
      Google Cloud
    Use cases
      Onboard to Google Cloud
      Configure GKE clusters
      Use Gemini and agent platform APIs
      Query BigQuery or Spanner
    Audience
      Developers
      DevOps engineers
    Setup
      One install command
      Pick specific skills

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Teach your AI coding assistant how to authenticate and onboard to Google Cloud

USE CASE 2

Get help configuring, scaling, or troubleshooting Google Kubernetes Engine clusters

USE CASE 3

Use Gemini API and agent platform skills to build and manage AI agents on Google Cloud

USE CASE 4

Get guided help with BigQuery, AlloyDB, Bigtable, or Spanner database tasks

What is it built with?

PythonGoogle CloudGKEBigQueryGemini API

How does it compare?

google/skillssczhou/codeformertrekhleb/learn-python
Stars18,01017,96017,955
LanguagePythonPythonPython
Setup difficultyeasyhardeasy
Complexity2/54/51/5
Audienceops devopsresearcherdeveloper

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

In plain English

This repository is Google's own official collection of Agent Skills for Google Cloud and related Google products. An Agent Skill is a packaged bundle of instructions and reference material that an AI coding assistant can load to become knowledgeable about a specific tool or task, and this repo gathers dozens of them covering Google Cloud in particular. You install it with a single command, and that command lets you pick which specific skills from the collection you actually want, rather than pulling in everything at once. Once installed, your AI assistant can use these skills whenever a relevant task comes up, without you having to re-explain how a given Google Cloud service works each time. The skills are organized into groups that mirror how people actually work with Google Cloud. There are getting started skills for authenticating and onboarding to Google Cloud, multi-product solution skills that walk through architecture patterns like building a data lakehouse or deploying AI agents, and a large AI and machine learning section covering things like the Gemini API, model tuning, and the agent platform's various management tools. A big infrastructure section focuses heavily on Google Kubernetes Engine, with skills for cluster creation, networking, autoscaling, cost optimization, and troubleshooting specific failure modes. Further sections cover databases and analytics tools such as BigQuery, AlloyDB, Bigtable, and Spanner, developer tools including the gcloud command line interface, and management tools for logging, monitoring, and alerting. Because it is maintained directly by Google and explicitly noted as under active development, the list of available skills is expected to keep growing over time. The project is written primarily in Python and is aimed at anyone using an AI coding assistant to work with Google Cloud, whether they are setting up infrastructure for the first time or troubleshooting an existing production system.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Install the google/skills package and let me choose which Google Cloud skills to add
Prompt 2
Use the GKE skills to help me troubleshoot a workload that keeps getting evicted
Prompt 3
Walk me through onboarding to Google Cloud using the getting started skills in this repo
Prompt 4
Show me how to use the Gemini API skill to add an agent to my Google Cloud project

Frequently asked questions

What is skills?

Google's official collection of installable AI agent skills that teach coding assistants how to work with Google Cloud services like GKE, BigQuery, and Gemini.

What language is skills written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, Google Cloud, GKE.

How hard is skills to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is skills for?

Mainly ops devops.

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