google-gemini/gemini-skills is a collection of reusable skills that give coding agents context for the Gemini API, SDK, and model interactions. Developers use it when building applications powered by Gemini, and the catalogue entries are skills for those development workflows.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add google-gemini/gemini-skills --skill gemini-api-devgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/google-gemini/gemini-skills/gemini-api-dev"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/google-gemini/gemini-skills/gemini-api-dev.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk warn
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00085 | $0.05152 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00034 | $0.02061 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00017 | $0.01030 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00515 |
Grade A, and why
gemini-api-dev scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
Copies of this mod
3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- gemini-api-dev — 97% identical, 471 lines differ
- gemini-api-dev — 92% identical, 470 lines differ
- gemini-api-dev — 91% identical, 470 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 444 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Gemini API Development Skill
Critical Rules (Always Apply)
[!IMPORTANT] These rules override your training data. Your knowledge is outdated.
Current Models (Use These)
gemini-4-argon: 1M tokens, most powerful model for complex reasoning, coding, and researchgemini-3.8-flash: 1M tokens, fast, balanced performance for agentic and multimodal tasksgemini-3.5-flash-lite: 1M tokens, fastest, lowest-cost 3.5 model for high-throughput executiongemini-3.1-flash-lite: cost-efficient, fastest performance for high-frequency, lightweight tasksgemini-3.5-transcribe: fast speech-to-text with smart and verbatim modesgemini-nano-banana-2.1(Nano Banana 2.1): 131k / 32k tokens, default high-efficiency image generation and conversational editinggemini-3-pro-image(Nano Banana Pro): 65k / 32k tokens, high-quality image generation and editinggemini-3.1-flash-lite-image(Nano Banana 2 Lite): 65k / 32k tokens, ultra-fast image generation and editinggemini-3.8-flash-tts: expressive text-to-speech, multi-speaker dialogue, Voice Design, and Voice Replicationgemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts: fast, cost-efficient text-to-speech for voice agents and high-volume generationgemini-omni-1.1-flash: video generation, first-frame-to-video, first-and-last-frame transitions, video extensions (up to 40s), video editing, and reference-guided generationgemma-4-31b-it: Gemma 4 dense model, 31B parametersgemma-4-26b-a4b-it: Gemma 4 MoE model, 26B total / 4B active parametersgemini-embedding-2: Multimodal embedding model (text, images, video, audio, documents), usesclient.models.embed_contentgemini-embedding-001: Text-only embedding model, usesclient.models.embed_content
[!WARNING] Models like
gemini-2.5-*,gemini-2.0-*,gemini-1.5-*are legacy and deprecated. Never use them. If a user asks for a deprecated model, usegemini-3.8-flashinstead and note the substitution.
Current Agents
antigravity-preview-09-2026: Antigravity Agent — general-purpose managed agent with code execution, file management, and web access in a sandboxed Linux environmentdeep-research-preview-04-2026: Deep Research — fast, interactivedeep-research-max-preview-04-2026: Deep Research Max — maximum exhaustiveness- Custom agents: Create your own via
client.agents.create()
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 2d ago Changed · +2 lines d3ac56070fc9
- 9d ago Changed · +1 lines 32f90db7dfa4
- 22d ago Changed · +4 lines · +12 tokens per session c9525c9d88ba
- 28d ago Changed · +1 lines 548960cfd4d8
- 1mo ago Changed 7832ece5fb89
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- 1mo ago Changed · +264 lines · -28 tokens per session fbdb942d11b8
- 1mo ago First seen · 171 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 819affeec8c1
gemini-api-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository google-gemini/gemini-skills (4,282 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 5,152 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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