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Gemini API Skills
by google-gemini · google-gemini/gemini-skills
Google’s Gemini skills guide API, SDK, model, function-calling, and realtime interaction workflows.
Install from the author’s instructions
Before connecting
- Use a supported coding agent and the skills CLI.
- Configure the Gemini API credentials required by the application you are building.
Author single-skill installer
npx skills add google-gemini/gemini-skills --skill gemini-api-devSources: Author README · Checked 2026-10-14.
The README’s vertex-ai-api-dev skill has moved to google/skills. Select the API skill rather than treating this repository as a generic Cloud credential setup.
Sources: Author README · Checked 2026-10-14.
Tools and capabilities
| Capability | What it does |
|---|---|
| gemini-api-dev | Build applications using Gemini API and SDK patterns. |
| gemini-live-api-dev | Build bidirectional realtime applications. |
| API-specific guidance | Use the skill suited to the requested Gemini workflow. |
Sources: Author README · Checked 2026-10-14.
Workflow examples
Suggested prompts for your own client. These are examples, not recorded tool executions.
Prompt 1
Use gemini-api-dev to review my function-calling code and its SDK usage.Prompt 2
Plan a realtime audio application with gemini-live-api-dev and explain session-management requirements.Sources and verification
Official documentation and repository metadata reviewed; no third-party software installed and no MCP or hosted service executed.
Recent activity refers to the repository push timestamp. It does not establish the product’s original release date. Stars are a dated snapshot of the entire repository.
- GitHub repository metadataVerified 2026-10-14
- Author READMEVerified 2026-10-14