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Agent Skill

Agent Platform skill registry

Discover, register, version, generate, update, and inspect skills in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

skill-registrydiscoverylifecycle

Skill specification

Declared by Google in the package front matter. Trigger conditions are what the coding agent matches on before it loads the skill.

Agent Platform skill registry SKILL.md front matter fields
Skill nameagent-platform-skill-registry
Trigger conditionsInteract with the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Skill Registry to create and search for available skills. Use this skill to enable agents to register functionality or discover new capabilities.
Upstream categoryAiAndMachineLearning

Install agent-platform-skill-registry

Agent Skills are a shared file format, but each client discovers them from a different directory. Copy the command for your agent, then start a new session so the skill is picked up.

Claude Code

.claude/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md

Project skills are committed with the repo. Use the user directory for a personal install across every project.

Project install

mkdir -p .claude/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry && curl -fsSL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/skills/main/skills/cloud/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md' -o .claude/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md

Personal install

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry && curl -fsSL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/skills/main/skills/cloud/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md' -o ~/.claude/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md

Codex

.agents/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md

Codex reads `.agents/skills/` as its primary location, which is also the cross-platform default other clients honour.

Project install

mkdir -p .agents/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry && curl -fsSL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/skills/main/skills/cloud/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md' -o .agents/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md

Personal install

mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry && curl -fsSL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/skills/main/skills/cloud/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md' -o ~/.agents/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md

Cursor

.cursor/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md

Cursor also loads `.agents/skills/`, `.claude/skills/`, and `.codex/skills/`, so one committed copy can serve several clients.

Project install

mkdir -p .cursor/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry && curl -fsSL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/skills/main/skills/cloud/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md' -o .cursor/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md

Personal install

mkdir -p ~/.cursor/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry && curl -fsSL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/skills/main/skills/cloud/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md' -o ~/.cursor/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md

Gemini CLI

.gemini/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md

Gemini CLI reads `.agents/skills/` first when both directories exist.

Project install

mkdir -p .gemini/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry && curl -fsSL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/skills/main/skills/cloud/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md' -o .gemini/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md

Personal install

mkdir -p ~/.gemini/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry && curl -fsSL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/skills/main/skills/cloud/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md' -o ~/.gemini/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md

GitHub Copilot

.github/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md

Copilot in VS Code discovers repository skills from `.github/skills/`.

Project install

mkdir -p .github/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry && curl -fsSL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/skills/main/skills/cloud/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md' -o .github/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md

Personal install

mkdir -p ~/.copilot/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry && curl -fsSL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/skills/main/skills/cloud/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md' -o ~/.copilot/skills/agent-platform-skill-registry/SKILL.md

Published by Google under Apache-2.0. Rendered from the package in github.com/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/agent-platform-skill-registry.

Skill Registry

This skill provides instructions for interacting with the Skill Registry on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Core Capabilities

  • Skill Discovery - Query the registry to easily search, list, get specific skills, and inspect revision histories.
  • Skill Lifecycle Management - Upload, update, or permanently delete skills.
  • Operation Monitoring - Utility to check the completion status of long-running state changes (LROs).
  • Generate Skill - Automate the initial scaffolding of new agent skills locally.

Core Directives

  • Mandatory Validation: ALWAYS execute the environment validation check before performing any operations.

Before any operation, you must validate the core environment.

    # Execute the validation script
    python3 scripts/validate_env.py

Prerequisites & Authentication

Library & Authentication

Ensure you have the latest Google Cloud credentials and libraries installed.

# Install required libraries
pip install google-auth requests

# Authenticate with Google Cloud
gcloud auth application-default login

Environment Variables

The following variables are required for operations:

  • GCP_PROJECT_ID: Your Google Cloud Project ID.
  • GCP_LOCATION: The region (e.g., us-central1).

Quickstart

Quickly search for available skills in the registry:

python3 scripts/skill_registry_ops.py search \
  --query "test skill" \
  --top-k 5

Operations

  • Skill Discovery: query-skills.md
  • Skill Lifecycle: manage-skills.md
  • Monitor Operations: monitor-operations.md
  • Generate Skill: generate-skill.md

Add the registry badge

Maintainers can link this listing from the skill's own README. Free, no account needed, and it points back at the rendered package for anyone browsing the repo.

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