Gemini launched a new feature that lets users save prompts as skills to avoid retyping instructions. Professionals can now stack standards, share expert know-how with teams, and use these skills directly in Gmail, Docs, and Slides. This tool helps save time by keeping brand rules and formats in one place.

What problem does it solve?

Every professional has a handful of prompts they end up retyping every week: the CEO's preferred proposal format, the client email tone, the vendor checklist.

You paste the instructions, re-upload templates and explain the same requirements again. The output still drifts. The know-how lives in someone's notes, old prompts or memory, rather than in the AI tool itself.

What can it do?

Stop retyping prompts: save your best instructions once and run them with a slash

Stack your standards: combine tone, format and brand rules in one prompt

Scale expert know-how: turn the team expert's checklist into a skill everyone uses

Example

A sales director sends three client proposals a week and needs each one in the same structure and voice. Here's how it plays out:

Build the skill: Ask "create a skill called proposal-builder: executive summary, client problem, approach, pricing table, next steps"

Attach the template: Add last quarter's winning proposal as a PDF reference file

Run it in one line: Type "/proposal-builder for a 200-seat logistics client, decision in 30 days"

Stack a voice skill: Add "/brand-voice" to keep the tone formal and crisp

Switch formats: Ask "turn this into a five-slide outline" and the same rules carry over

Share with the team: Draft the skill in Docs with the skill builder so colleagues can comment and enable it

What makes Skills in Gemini special?

Stackable by design: several skills run together in one prompt, which Gems never allowed

Open and portable: built on SKILL.md, so skills move across AI platforms

Lives where you work: call skills with @ in the Gemini side panel in Gmail, Docs, Slides and Drive

Mint's ‘AI tool of the week’ is excerpted from Leslie D'Monte's weekly TechTalk newsletter. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox.