--- title: Best agent Skills for Gemini CLI slug: best-skills-for-gemini-cli type: agent-guide agent: gemini-cli targetQuery: best gemini cli skills canonical: https://top-agent-skills.com/guides/best-skills-for-gemini-cli published: 2026-08-19 updated: 2026-08-26 --- # Best agent Skills for Gemini CLI The Skills verified in Gemini CLI are a short, specific list: frontend-design for UI, firebase-hosting for deploys (Google's own product, and the best-fitting Skill on this agent), the Stripe set for payments, and Composio for tool routing. Only 11 of the 206 Skills we catalogue are verified here, and we would rather publish a short honest list than a long assumed one — Gemini CLI runs SKILL.md through a compatibility layer, so per-Skill testing is the only trustworthy signal. ## How Skills install on this agent ```bash gemini skills add github.com/anthropics/skills --skill frontend-design ``` 1. Copy the Gemini CLI command from the Skill page on this site. 2. Run it in the project directory. 3. Restart the session so the Skill metadata is read. 4. Trigger the Skill and verify the behaviour changed — on a compatibility layer, silent no-ops are the failure mode to watch for. Gemini CLI reads SKILL.md through a compatibility layer rather than as a native primitive. In practice that means the format parses and simple instruction-only Skills work well, while Skills that assume specific agent tooling are the ones that degrade. This is why the verified list here is short and why we do not extend it by inference. ## The picks ### 1. frontend-design (Official) Verified on Gemini CLI and the highest-scoring Skill we catalogue. It is also the kind of Skill that travels best across compatibility layers: pure instruction, read-only, no dependency on agent-specific tooling. - Reach for it when: Any UI generation where the output should look considered. - Entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/frontend-design (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/frontend-design.md) ### 2. firebase-hosting-basics (Verified) Published by Google, deploying to a Google product, verified on Google's agent — the tightest fit available on this surface. It initialises the project, writes firebase.json, and runs the single-step deploy. - Reach for it when: Shipping a site or app that already uses Firestore, Auth, or other Firebase services. - Entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/firebase-hosting (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/firebase-hosting.md) ### 3. stripe-best-practices (Verified) Stripe's own integration playbook: which API to use, how to structure Connect and billing, and how to handle keys and webhooks safely. Verified on Gemini CLI, and it front-loads the decisions people get wrong before writing code. - Reach for it when: Starting or reviewing a Stripe integration, before the implementation is locked in. - Entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-best-practices (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-best-practices.md) ### 4. composio (Verified) Apache-2.0 and verified on all seven agent targets — the single most portable integration Skill we list, which makes it a safe install on a compatibility-layer agent. - Reach for it when: Connecting to several SaaS tools without building each integration. - Entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/composio (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/composio.md) ### 5. seo-geo-claude-skills (Community) Technical SEO and GEO/AEO auditing, MIT licensed, verified across four agents including Gemini CLI. Instruction-only and read-write, so it travels well and produces an artefact you can act on. - Reach for it when: Auditing a site for search and AI-answer visibility rather than writing code. - Entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/seo-geo-claude-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/seo-geo-claude-skills.md) ### 6. antigravity-awesome-skills (Community) A large MIT-licensed bundle verified on five agents including Gemini CLI — the pragmatic way to get breadth on a surface where individually verified Skills are scarce. - Reach for it when: You want coverage across many tasks and are willing to evaluate bundle members yourself. - Entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/antigravity-awesome-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/antigravity-awesome-skills.md) ## Limits Eleven verified Skills is the smallest list of any agent here except the Claude API, and the honest reading is that Gemini CLI is under-tested rather than incapable. Because it runs SKILL.md through a compatibility layer, the characteristic failure is a Skill that loads and then quietly does not change behaviour — which is precisely the failure that assumed compatibility hides and per-Skill testing catches. If a Skill you want is not listed, it has most likely not been tested here; check its page for the agents where it has. ## Common questions **Does Gemini CLI support SKILL.md natively?** Through a compatibility layer rather than as a first-party primitive. The format is read and simple instruction Skills work, but behaviour is less predictable than on a native host — which is why every entry on this site lists Gemini CLI only after it was tested there. **Why are so few Skills listed for Gemini CLI?** Because the list reflects testing, not inference. Most Skills have simply not been verified on this agent yet, and a few genuinely do not survive the compatibility layer. Publishing an assumed list would make the number look better and the site less useful. **Can I use Claude Code Skills in Gemini CLI?** You can install them — the file format is the same. Whether they work depends on what the instructions assume. Read-only, instruction-only Skills usually port cleanly; Skills that name agent-specific tools or expect a particular execution environment are the ones that degrade. --- _Top Agent Skills. Machine-readable twin of https://top-agent-skills.com/guides/best-skills-for-gemini-cli._ _Catalog as one JSON file (CC BY 4.0): https://top-agent-skills.com/skills.json_