Behind the scenes, two months later: How we ship Google Agent Skills like products

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Remigiusz Samborski

Lead Developer Relations Engineer

In my previous post, I took you behind the scenes of Google Agent Skills, covering how the project started, how we maintain quality at scale, and how we handle governance. In this post, I'll share what we've built since then: the automated quality gates that every change must pass, the AI review agent that inspects skill quality, and the lessons that we learned along the way. You can adopt similar gates and review rules in your own skill repository.

Since my last post, the Google Agent Skills repository has passed 21,000 GitHub stars, up from 15,000. It now hosts over 170 skills from teams across Google, and we distribute them across multiple AI platforms.

Building agent skills for a single developer or a small project is straightforward. You write a SKILL.md file, define a few instructions, test it manually, and it works. At...

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