alt.hn

4/14/2026 at 5:09:43 PM

Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

 https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/chrome/skills-in-chrome/

by xnx

4/14/2026 at 6:49:42 PM

my most commonly repeated prompt; would be nice if the baked it into the tool itself:

"No emojis. be concise. no suggestions unless I explicitly ask for them. answer questions like the machine you are. Don't try and add personality or humour; remember you're a robot."

by skeeter2020

4/14/2026 at 9:55:25 PM

I'd add "no ass-kissing"

by sva_

4/14/2026 at 8:41:53 PM

I like it. Have you tried putting this in your LLM system prompt?

by the13

4/14/2026 at 9:05:00 PM

> Don't try and add personality or humour; remember you're a robot."

> remember you're a robot."

The anthropomorphization juxtaposed to the actual command is a bit ironic.

by vasco

4/14/2026 at 9:57:47 PM

It really does make you wonder why all the models seem to require that. In principle, it shouldn't be a property of LLMs, and lol no it's not an "emergent property".

by sublinear

4/14/2026 at 10:13:03 PM

Post-training and "human preference" according to "data". Don't know a single developer who use these tools for work who prefer that though, but also don't know anyone who use LLMs a lot just "for fun" either, might just be vastly different preferences between the two userbases.

by embedding-shape

4/14/2026 at 9:41:27 PM

need prompt macros

by b00ty4breakfast

4/14/2026 at 7:24:11 PM

I really hope this doesn't have the same security model as Chrome Extensions!

I can see the appeal of this feature and I am generally speaking an AI booster.

On the other hand...like...wat? This feature feels way too premature and risky to let loose on the public.

by _doctor_love

4/14/2026 at 9:34:34 PM

There are no third-party Skills, you can only create your own or use Google's readymade ones.

by decimalenough

4/14/2026 at 10:12:20 PM

Looks like it's read-only access. I'll still be using Claude Code with a Chrome MCP

by OsrsNeedsf2P

4/14/2026 at 8:48:32 PM

So, bookmarklets for Chrome's AI integration?

by hotsalad

4/14/2026 at 7:47:46 PM

These days announcements like this just make me want to put on my tinfoil hat - what's in it for Google, though? Why make it more convenient for people to submit webpages to you?

by parasti

4/14/2026 at 8:48:47 PM

Presumably the upside for Google is they'll just lock it behind the "Google AI Plus" subscription plan if it isn't already

by kllrnohj

4/14/2026 at 9:23:49 PM

Yes. We desperately need more local models.

by amelius

4/14/2026 at 9:13:59 PM

My prompt collection lives in three different places right now — Raycast snippets, Apple Notes, and a Notion page that keeps growing. I know I wrote a good one for my git commit/push flow somewhere, but finding it when I need it usually takes longer than just rewriting it.

The browser approach makes sense for Claude code and ChatGPT. I wonder how well it holds up once you have 50+ prompts though — finding the right one fast is the real problem for me.

by woodydesign

4/14/2026 at 9:59:22 PM

My prompt collection simply lives in my chat history. I just hit search and type in something unique I remember.

This is cleaner, though :)

by qingcharles

4/14/2026 at 7:31:34 PM

Never before have people been able to effortlessly visualize whole landing pages to tell them to put glue on pizza.

by mwkaufma

4/14/2026 at 7:41:31 PM

So much of the web has no API anymore and is hostile to robots.

The script to turn the coffee maker on when dad posts on Facebook for the first time each morning that worked in 2014 won't work anymore in 2026.

Having this sort of thing built into a mainstream browser will open up a new avenue for automation, which I think will be a good thing for breaking down data silos and being good for the world overall.

by londons_explore

4/14/2026 at 8:02:26 PM

Just ignore the unreliability and the waste of resources

by croes

4/14/2026 at 6:21:07 PM

I hate that. I understand that it might be useful, and tbh, on personnal PC, i'm not even concerned. But it is going towards people pushing to replace XQL or other query languages with prompting in natural languages, for no good reasons. Generate your query and copy paste if you don't want to read the documentation man, but please, please keep an intermediary between the LLM and the real world data. The last time your fucking prompt gave me a "log overview" i lost 2 hours understanding what the fuck i was reading, when a query would have taken me at most 20 minutes.

Convert my AI prompt into the code for a one-click tool, let me read and share it, that would be _great_.

by orwin

4/14/2026 at 6:48:51 PM

The examples in TFA don't really seem suitable for code, unless that code is a wrapper for calling LLMs.

"Health & Wellness: quickly calculating protein macros for any recipe

Shopping: generating side-by-side spec comparisons across multiple tabs

Productivity: scanning lengthy documents for important information"

by jampekka

4/14/2026 at 7:05:00 PM

Who wants this?

by marsavar

4/14/2026 at 10:00:27 PM

Me. I have a prompt I use to get alt text and caption ideas for photos. I basically copy/paste it each time. This will save a step.

by qingcharles

4/14/2026 at 7:19:39 PM

I can imagine a moderator, or a marketing person, wanting such a tool. "Respond to this post in a polite and friendly manner, thank the user for choosing our company, discovering a problem, and taking the time to report it. Promise to sort this out quickly. If the user is really angry and threatens legal action, promise an immediate refund, and shoot me an email with the summary of the issue, and all the details."

If instead of a copy-pasting spree, or setting up a whateverClaw, the user might just click a button in Chrome, it could be actually useful. (Consider a dozen such buttons.)

by nine_k

4/14/2026 at 8:44:05 PM

OP. & I bet some people will want to play with it at least. Maybe it'll inspire builders to build something they themselves want.

by the13

4/14/2026 at 7:22:55 PM

I can immediately think of personal use cases for this.

by gardenhedge

4/14/2026 at 8:44:30 PM

Any you can share?

by the13

4/14/2026 at 7:42:57 PM

This sounds to me like yet another way to automate filling out forms. I had been thinking about vibe-coding a Chrome extension for one form I fill in regularly, but perhaps this is easier.

by skybrian

4/14/2026 at 7:46:50 PM

Ah yes. Ticks all the boxes

- Becoming a Platform

- AI

- User-generated content

[list continues]

There is something comforting about seeing that the SV stopped having ideas and now just recycles and recombines the same tropes over and over again.

It's still all terrible, but it's a devil you know. You can live with that. You can skip the broken stair and duck, knowing exactly when they're trying to punch you in the face again.

Now here's hoping that eventually, they get bored and just stop entirely.

by hypfer

4/14/2026 at 6:18:55 PM

I would be more excited by this if there was a better permissions model for these things. For example I can think of a skill that would need access to a certain corpus of documents that I host on Google Drive, but, as far as I have been able to determine using Google's other AI products, there is no way for me to grant read-only access to that corpus without granting read-write access to all of my data on Google, which is simply too much access for my taste. There has to be something less binary than Personalization:on/off?

by jeffbee

4/14/2026 at 5:46:49 PM

This could be interesting

by christoff12

4/14/2026 at 7:20:05 PM

Jesus, I don't want to be mean, but some things that Google creates are completeyl useless...

by PunchTornado

4/14/2026 at 6:54:50 PM

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by fragrom