Overview
Google's skills teach coding agents tasks across Google products and Google Cloud, starting with getting-started recipes such as IAM authentication.
What it does
- Google Cloud getting-started skills
- IAM authentication recipe
- Choose skills, agents and scope at install
Capability source: Project documentation
Who Google Agent Skills fits
Developers building on Google Cloud with a coding agent.
How you run it
Google Agent Skills runs on infrastructure you manage.
Documented deployment options: npx skills.
Before you choose it
Skills act on Google Cloud with your credentials. Try them in a test project first.
Self-hosting and deployment
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Cloud / hosted offering
- Not recorded
- Docker noted in deployment tags
- Not recorded
- Deployment tags
- npx skills
- Difficulty
- Easy
Google Agent Skills questions
- What is Google Agent Skills?
- Agent skills for Google products and Google Cloud. It is listed under Agent skills on PickOpenSource.
- Is Google Agent Skills open source?
- Yes. Its source code is public on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license.
- Can you self-host Google Agent Skills?
- Yes. Listed deployment options: npx skills.
- Is Google Agent Skills free?
- Pricing is not recorded in this catalog. Check the official website for hosted plans and edition limits, and the Apache-2.0 license for usage conditions. Self-hosting also requires infrastructure and maintenance.
- What are alternatives to Google Agent Skills?
- Similar agent skills projects include Superpowers, Skills by Matt Pocock, and Ponytail.
- Is Google Agent Skills actively maintained?
- The latest commit on GitHub was October 9, 2026, and the repository has 21k stars.
Related projects
Other approved projects in Agent skills: Superpowers, Skills by Matt Pocock, Ponytail.
Superpowers
A software development method for coding agents, built from composable skills.- Stars
- 297,987
- Updated
- License
- MIT
- Hosting
- Self-hosted
- Category
- Agent Skills
Superpowers
Superpowers gives coding agents a working method: it turns a request into a spec you review, writes an implementation plan, then runs subagent-driven development with review of each task. Its skills trigger automatically once installed.Website GitHubSkills by Matt Pocock
Small, composable engineering skills from Matt Pocock's own agent setup.- Stars
- 286,949
- Updated
- License
- MIT
- Hosting
- Self-hosted
- Category
- Agent Skills
Skills by Matt Pocock
A set of engineering skills Matt Pocock uses daily, written to be small, easy to adapt and composable, and to work with any model instead of owning your whole process.Website GitHubPonytail
A skill that makes coding agents write the smallest change that solves the task.- Stars
- 161,519
- Updated
- License
- MIT
- Hosting
- Self-hosted
- Category
- Agent Skills
Ponytail
Ponytail is one skill prompt that pushes an agent to reuse existing code and native features before adding dependencies, while keeping validation, error handling, security and accessibility. It adds review and repository audit commands.Website GitHubMaintain Google Agent Skills? Add the README badge
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