Gemini Skills Library

Eight skills.
Type / and they're yours.

Ready-made Gemini skills for planning, student support, communication and research. Each one is a single file you upload once and call by name whenever you need it.

Browse the skills
8skills
4shelves
3steps to install
CC BYfree to adapt
How it works

From file to /command in three steps.

You only install a skill once. After that it waits in Gemini until you call it.

Grab the file

Pick a skill below and hit Download SKILL.md. It's already a plain-text file with the right name, so it's ready to go.

Upload it to Gemini

In the Gemini app (web, Mac or phone), open Skills, choose Upload and pick the SKILL.md file.

Call it by name

In any chat, type / (or @ on newer versions of Gemini), pick the skill, then add your lesson, task or draft.

Good to know. Gemini takes one skill per upload, so if you download all 8, unzip the folder first and upload each SKILL.md on its own. Skills need you to be 18+, signed in, with Keep Activity turned on, and may not be offered in every region. Prefer copy and paste? Use a card's Copy button and save the text as a plain-text file named SKILL.md (in Mac TextEdit, choose Format → Make Plain Text first).
The card catalog

Pull a card, any card.

Four shelves, color-coded by who the skill serves. Open a card to see how the skill thinks before you install it.

Inside a skill

Every card shares one skeleton.

All eight skills share the same nine parts (Thinking moves spotter adds a tenth: its list of 15 moves). Tap a part to see what it does, then borrow the pattern for your own.

rewriting-as-quest/SKILL.md
    Make it yours

    Free to adapt, built to be remixed.

    Every skill is shared under CC BY 4.0. Change the tone, swap the examples, add your school's language. Keep the guardrails, and credit Shifting Schools.

    • 01Edit the description so it names the moments your team asks for help.
    • 02Rewrite the examples using a real lesson from your school.
    • 03Bump the version and updated date so everyone knows which copy is current.
    Shifting Schools · Gemini Skills Library v1.0 · Updated Oct 21, 2026 · Skills licensed CC BY 4.0. Check AI output before you share it.