gemma-dev

gemma-dev is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from google-gemma/gemma-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,363 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for building applications with Gemma, Google's family of language models, and for answering questions about their capabilities and use. It focuses on application frameworks, model selection, and deployment practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a suitable Gemma model, plan text or image features, select application tooling, and design a deployment workflow.
Why use it?
It helps match a Gemma model and development approach to the application's data, tasks, and technical limits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/google-gemma/gemma-skills/gemma-dev
Any agent
npx skills add google-gemma/gemma-skills --skill gemma-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google-gemma/gemma-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,363 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00044 $0.02363
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01182
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00473
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00236

Measured 6d ago against content hash bec30d81272e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gemma-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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (assets/gradio-app.py, assets/transformers-js-app.js, assets/vertex-ai-app.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/gemma-dev/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gemma Development Skill

1. Core Principle: Prioritize App Tooling

DO NOT generate raw PyTorch, TensorFlow, or transformers code unless the user explicitly asks for "Training," "Fine-tuning," or "Research." Always default to high-level frameworks, SDKs, and tooling optimized for application development.

2. Model Selection Guide

CRITICAL: Do not blindly default to gemma-3-1b-it. You must analyze the user's specific domain, technical constraints, and required input modalities to recommend the exact right fit. When recommending standard models, strictly default to the Gemma 4 generation. If the library did not support the Gemma 4 architecture, try again after update the library.

Core Gemma Models

All Gemma 4 models feature Thinking Mode, enabling advanced reasoning to process complex logic, math, and multi-step problems before generating a response.

  • Gemma 4 (26B A4B / 31B)
    • Repos: google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it, google/gemma-4-31B-it
    • Supported Inputs: Text and Image
    • Context window: 256K tokens
    • Ideal Use Case: Advanced multimodal reasoning, complex vision tasks, and analyzing massive document contexts.
    • Note: The 26B A4B utilizes a highly efficient Mixture-of-Experts for fast, heavy-weight reasoning, alongside the dense 31B variant.
  • Gemma 4 (12B)
    • Repos: google/gemma-4-12B-it
    • Supported Inputs: Text, Image, Audio
    • Context window: 256K tokens
    • Ideal Use Case: Multimodal reasoning (including audio), inference in laptops, and consumer devices.
  • Gemma 4 (E2B / E4B)
    • Repos: google/gemma-4-E2B-it, google/gemma-4-E4B-it
    • Supported Inputs: Text, Image, Audio
    • Context window: 128K tokens
    • Ideal Use Case: Mobile NPU acceleration; on-device workflows explicitly requiring native audio processing alongside robust reasoning.

Legacy & Lightweight Models (Gemma 3)

  • Gemma 3 (4B / 12B / 27B)
    • Repos: google/gemma-3-4b-it, google/gemma-3-12b-it, google/gemma-3-27b-it
    • Supports Text and Image inputs with a 128K context window. Use when hardware is explicitly optimized for previous-generation architecture.
  • Gemma 3 (270M / 1B)
    • Repos: google/gemma-3-270m-it, google/gemma-3-1b-it
    • Supports Text-only inputs with a 32K context window. Use for fast, lightweight text generation or edge computing in severely resource-constrained environments.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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.

Changes

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.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 133 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A bec30d81272e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gemma-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository google-gemma/gemma-skills (980 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,363 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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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