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Best Google Cloud agent skills

Google Cloud Platform — compute, data, observability and the gcloud tooling around it. The 10 highest-ranked of the 10 agent skills tagged Google Cloud in the Onei AI catalogue.

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  1. gcloud CLI Guardrails

    DevOps & Infrastructure

    by Google Cloud

    Google's official skill for driving the gcloud CLI safely from an agent: validate every command against its own help text, cap the output, and refuse the operations that should never run unattended.

    Also: Security · Editor's pick · Copied 1 time

    Install gcloud CLI Guardrails gcloud CLI Guardrails alternatives

  2. Google Cloud Spanner Basics

    DevelopmentData & AnalyticsDevOps & Infrastructure

    by Google Cloud

    Google's official Spanner skill: provision instances, design primary keys that do not hotspot, write SQL and client-library code, and diagnose slow queries — with DDL and DML gated behind your approval.

    Also: Database

    Install Google Cloud Spanner Basics Google Cloud Spanner Basics alternatives

  3. Authenticating to Google Cloud

    DevelopmentSecurity

    by Google Cloud

    Google's official skill for getting Google Cloud authentication right — human identities, service accounts, Application Default Credentials, and the failure modes agents usually hit.

    Also: Security

    Install Authenticating to Google Cloud Authenticating to Google Cloud alternatives

  4. GKE Basics & Critical Gotchas

    DevOps & Infrastructure

    by Google

    Google's official GKE skill — when Autopilot beats Standard, Workload Identity instead of JSON keys, Autopilot's 250m CPU rounding, and private-cluster flags.

    Install GKE Basics & Critical Gotchas GKE Basics & Critical Gotchas alternatives

  5. Cloud SQL Basics

    DevelopmentData & AnalyticsDevOps & Infrastructure

    by Google

    Google's official Cloud SQL skill — create and connect MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server instances with the right gcloud commands, Auth Proxy setup, HA and backup model.

    Also: Database

    Install Cloud SQL Basics Cloud SQL Basics alternatives

  6. Gemini API in Agent Platform

    Development

    by Google Cloud

    Google's official skill for calling Gemini on Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) with the Gen AI SDK — Python, JS/TS, Go, Java and C#, plus tools, multimodal input and the Live API.

    Install Gemini API in Agent Platform Gemini API in Agent Platform alternatives

  7. BigQuery Basics

    Data & Analytics

    by Google

    Google's official BigQuery skill — datasets, tables, jobs and SQL from the bq CLI, plus the reference set for IAM, Terraform, change history and continuous queries.

    Install BigQuery Basics BigQuery Basics alternatives

  8. Cloud Run Basics

    DevOps & Infrastructure

    by Google

    Google's official Cloud Run skill — deploy services, jobs and worker pools correctly, with the IAM roles, port contract and gotchas that break first deployments.

    Install Cloud Run Basics Cloud Run Basics alternatives

  9. AlloyDB Basics

    DevelopmentData & AnalyticsDevOps & Infrastructure

    by Google

    Google's official AlloyDB for PostgreSQL skill — cluster and instance lifecycle from gcloud, plus hard rules on private connectivity, IAM database auth and backup behaviour.

    Also: Database, Security

    Install AlloyDB Basics AlloyDB Basics alternatives

  10. Well-Architected Framework: Security Pillar

    DevOps & InfrastructureSecurity

    by Google

    Google's official Well-Architected Framework skill for the security pillar — turns an architecture review into a structured interview, gap analysis and prioritised recommendations.

    Also: Security

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How this list is ranked

Ranked by 20 points for an editor's pick, plus 4 points per copy of the install command or SKILL.md up to 10, plus a point per 5 page views up to 100; ties go to the most recently updated. Discontinued skills are never ranked.

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