Google Cloud Skills skills
Google's official Agent Skills repo — AlloyDB, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Firebase, Gemini API, GKE, plus Well-Architected (Security, Reliability, Cost) skills skills-hub.ai mirrors 13 skills from Google Cloud Skills daily — every skill links back to its upstream GitHub source. Install with one command across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible tool.
Upstream: github.com/google/skills
Installing a Google Cloud Skills skill
Pick a skill below, then run the install command for your AI coding tool. The skills-hub CLI writes the SKILL.md to the right directory and tracks the install in .skills.json so your team gets reproducible installs.
# Install a Google Cloud Skills skill
npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install <skill-slug>
# Browse all Google Cloud Skills skills via API
curl https://skills-hub.ai/api/v1/skills?source=google-cloud-skills
# Browse all sources
open https://skills-hub.ai/sourcesTop Google Cloud Skills skills
See all →The most-installed skills from Google Cloud Skills, ranked by adoption.
01bigquery-basics
Manages datasets, tables, and jobs in BigQuery, and integrates with BigQuery ML and Gemini for advanced data analytics and AI-driven insights. Use when you need to interact with BigQuery, run SQL queries, manage BigQuery resources, or leverage BigQuery's built-in ML capabilities. Also use when performing data analysis, ingesting data into BigQuery, or developing AI applications on BigQuery.
Buildfrom Google Cloud Skills02google-cloud-waf-cost-optimization
Generates cost optimization guidance for Google Cloud workloads based on the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework (WAF). Use this skill to evaluate a workload, identify cost requirements and constraints, and provide actionable recommendations for build, deploy, and manage the workload cost-efficiently in Google Cloud.
Buildfrom Google Cloud Skills03google-cloud-waf-security
Generates security-focused guidance for Google Cloud workloads based on the design principles and recommendations in the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework (WAF). Use this skill to evaluate a workload, identify security requirements, and provide actionable recommendations for IAM, network security, data protection, and operational security.
Buildfrom Google Cloud Skills04alloydb-basics
Manages clusters, instances, and backups for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, and integrates with AlloyDB model context protocol (MCP) tools for automated database operations.
Buildfrom Google Cloud Skills05cloud-run-basics
Manages Cloud Run services, jobs, and worker pools. Use when you need to deploy applications responding to HTTP requests (services), run event-triggered or scheduled tasks (jobs), or handle always-on pull-based background processing (worker pools).
Buildfrom Google Cloud Skills06cloud-sql-basics
This file generates or explains Cloud SQL resources. Use this file when the user asks to create a Cloud SQL instance or database for MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server. Cloud SQL manages third-party MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server instances as resources in Cloud SQL. For example, when Cloud SQL creates an open-source MySQL instance, the resulting resource is a Cloud SQL for MySQL instance that Google Cloud manages. Cloud SQL handles backups, high availability, and secure connectivity for relational database workloads.
Buildfrom Google Cloud Skills07firebase-basics
Use this skill whenever you are working on a project that uses Firebase products or services, especially for mobile or web apps.
Buildfrom Google Cloud Skills08gemini-api
Guides the usage of the Gemini API on Agent Platform with the Google Gen AI SDK. Use when the user asks about using Gemini in an enterprise environment or explicitly mentions Vertex AI, Google Cloud, or Agent Platform. Covers SDK usage (Python, JS/TS, Go, Java, C#), capabilities like Live API, tools, multimedia generation, caching, and batch prediction.
Buildfrom Google Cloud Skills09gke-basics
Plan, create, and configure production-ready Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters using the golden path Autopilot configuration. Covers Day-0 checklist, Autopilot vs Standard, networking (private clusters, VPC-native, Gateway API), security (Workload Identity, Secret Manager, RBAC hardening), observability, scaling, cost optimization, and AI/ML inference. WHEN: create GKE cluster, provision GKE environment, design GKE networking, secure GKE, optimize GKE cost, GKE autoscaling, GKE inference, GKE upgrade, GKE observability, GKE multi-tenancy, GKE batch, GKE HPC, GKE compute class.
Buildfrom Google Cloud Skills10google-cloud-recipe-auth
Provides expert guidance on authenticating and authorizing to Google Cloud services and APIs, covering human users, service identities, Application Default Credentials (ADC), and best practices for secure access.
Buildfrom Google Cloud Skills11google-cloud-recipe-onboarding
Guidance for a developer's first steps on Google Cloud, covering account creation, billing setup, project management, and deploying a first resource.
Buildfrom Google Cloud Skills12google-cloud-waf-reliability
Generates reliability-focused guidance for Google Cloud workloads based on the design principles and recommendations in the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework. Use this skill to evaluate a workload, identify reliability requirements, and provide actionable recommendations for build, deploy, and manage the workload reliably in Google Cloud.
Buildfrom Google Cloud Skills13google-cloud-recipe-networking-observability
Investigates Google Cloud networking issues by analyzing logs, metrics, and diagnostics. Use when investigating VPC Flow Logs, NAT, firewall, or threat logs, querying latency and throughput metrics, or running Connectivity Tests for path diagnostics.
Buildfrom Google Cloud Skills
About this source
skills-hub.ai mirrors skills from 90+ official GitHub repositories every day. Each imported skill is parsed from a SKILL.md file in the source repo, gets a security scan and quality score on import, and links back to its upstream source of truth.
Last sync: Apr 30, 2026, 10:10 PM (success).
Google Cloud Skills skills — frequently asked
What are Google Cloud Skills skills?
Google Cloud Skills skills are AI coding skills published by Google Cloud Skills (Google's official Agent Skills repo — AlloyDB, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Firebase, Gemini API, GKE, plus Well-Architected (Security, Reliability, Cost) skills) and mirrored daily on skills-hub.ai. They are SKILL.md files that follow the open Agent Skills standard, so they work in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Windsurf, Copilot, and any MCP-compatible tool.
How many Google Cloud Skills skills are available?
skills-hub.ai indexes 13 skills from Google Cloud Skills, synced daily from the upstream GitHub repository (https://github.com/google/skills).
How do I install a Google Cloud Skills skill?
Run `npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install <skill-slug>` in your project. The CLI writes the SKILL.md to the right directory for your AI tool and adds it to your `.skills.json` lockfile so your team gets the same skills at the same versions.
Are these official Google Cloud Skills skills?
Yes. Every skill from this source is mirrored from Google Cloud Skills's own GitHub repository (https://github.com/google/skills). Each skill page links back to the upstream source of truth, so you can verify the original.