Gemini API

Use when the user asks about using Gemini in an enterprise environment or explicitly mentions Vertex AI, Google Cloud, or Agent Platform. Guides the usage of the Gemini API on Agent Platform with the Google Gen AI SDK. Covers SDK usage (Python, JS/TS, Go, Java, C#), capabilities like multimodal inputs, tools, media generation, caching, batch prediction, and Live API.

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add google/skills --skill gemini-api

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git /tmp/skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/skills/skills/cloud/gemini-api ~/.claude/skills/gemini-api

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

> [!IMPORTANT]
> Agent Platform (full name Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform) was previously named "Vertex AI" and many web resources use the legacy branding.

# Gemini API in Agent Platform

Access Google's most advanced AI models built for enterprise use cases using the Gemini API in Agent Platform.

Provide these key capabilities:

- **Text generation** - Chat, completion, summarization
- **Multimodal understanding** - Process images, audio, video, and documents
- **Function calling** - Let the model invoke your functions
- **Structured output** - Generate valid JSON matching your schema
- **Context caching** - Cache large contexts for efficiency
- **Embeddings** - Generate text embeddings for semantic search
- **Live Realtime API** - Bidirectional streaming for low latency Voice and Video interactions
- **Batch Prediction** - Handle massive async dataset prediction workloads

## Attribution

**MUST READ**: Before executing any `gcloud`, REST API, or MCP command, you
MUST read [Usage Attribution](references/attribution.md). For commands executed
directly in the terminal (never in generated scripts, Terraform, or user code),
prefix `gcloud` with
`CLOUDSDK_METRICS_REQUEST_ATTRIBUTION="agent-skills/1.0 (skill:gemini-api)"`
and append `agent-skills/1.0 (skill:gemini-api)` to `User-Agent` headers.

## Core Directives

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: gemini-api
Repository: google/skills
Path: skills/cloud/gemini-api/SKILL.md
License: Apache-2.0
Repo updated: 30 October 2026
Listed in: skillmatic-ai/awesome-agent-skills, VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills

FAQ

What does the Gemini API skill do?

How do I install the Gemini API skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add google/skills --skill gemini-api. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Gemini API popular?

It lives in google/skills, which has 21,714 GitHub stars and 1,849 forks, and is included in 2 curated skill lists.

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