Agent Platform Skill Registry

Skill Registry

This skill provides instructions for interacting with the Skill Registry on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Core Capabilities

• Skill Discovery - Query the registry to easily search, list, get

specific skills, and inspect revision histories.

• Skill Lifecycle Management - Upload, update, or permanently delete

skills.

• Operation Monitoring - Utility to check the completion status of

long-running state changes (LROs).

• Generate Skill - Automate the initial scaffolding of new agent skills

locally.

Core Directives

• Mandatory Validation: ALWAYS execute the environment validation check

before performing any operations.

Before any operation, you must validate the core environment.

``bash # Execute the validation script python3 scripts/validate_env.py ``

Prerequisites & Authentication

Library & Authentication

Ensure you have the latest Google Cloud credentials and libraries installed.

# Install required libraries
pip install google-auth requests

# Authenticate with Google Cloud
gcloud auth application-default login

Environment Variables

The following variables are required for operations:

• GCP_PROJECT_ID: Your Google Cloud Project ID.
• GCP_LOCATION: The region (e.g., us-central1).

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Quickstart

Quickly search for available skills in the registry:

python3 scripts/skill_registry_ops.py search \
  --query "test skill" \
  --top-k 5

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Operations

• Skill Discovery: [query-skills.md](references/query-skills.md)
• Skill Lifecycle: [manage-skills.md](references/manage-skills.md)
• Monitor Operations:

[monitor-operations.md](references/monitor-operations.md)

• Generate Skill: [generate-skill.md](references/generate-skill.md)

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: google
• Source: google/skills
• License: Apache-2.0

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.