Google Cloud Recipe Onboarding

Guides a developer's first steps on Google Cloud, covering account creation, billing setup, project management, and deploying a first resource. Use when a new developer wants to initialize their first Google Cloud project, configure billing, and verify deployment. Don't use for enterprise organization setup (use Google Cloud Setup guided flow for that instead). Don't use for complex multi-project architectures.

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Install

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

npx skills add google/skills --skill google-cloud-recipe-onboarding

Manual install

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

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

From the SKILL.md

# Onboarding to Google Cloud

This skill provides a streamlined, non-interactive "happy path" for a singleton developer to get started with [Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com/). It covers everything from environment verification and authentication to project selection, billing account linkage, and downstream safety chaining.

## Attribution

For all `gcloud` CLI, REST API, and MCP attribution requirements when executing
commands with this skill, follow the instructions in
[Usage Attribution](references/attribution.md).

> [!IMPORTANT]
> For autonomous agents executing this skill:
> 1. **Check-Before-Mutate Audits**: Always perform silent pre-execution state audits prior to proposing or executing any project or billing changes.
> 2. **Single-Question Policy**: Ask the user for exactly **one** operational parameter or confirmation at a time during interactive execution.
> 3. **Non-Interactive Output**: Append non-interactive overrides (`--quiet`, `--format="json"`) to all mutation commands to guarantee deterministic, machine-parseable outputs and prevent terminal hangs.
> 4. **First Turn Interaction Rules (Trigger Turn)**: When the developer first triggers this skill with a general onboarding request (e.g. says "I want to get started with Google Cloud"):

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: google-cloud-recipe-onboarding
Repository: google/skills
Path: skills/cloud/google-cloud-recipe-onboarding/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 Google Cloud Recipe Onboarding skill do?

How do I install the Google Cloud Recipe Onboarding skill?

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

Is Google Cloud Recipe Onboarding 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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