Web & External
Web & External skills enable AI Agents and AI Flows to retrieve real-time information from the internet, interact with websites, and automate browser-based tasks. These skills are ideal for research, data collection, web automation, and external integrations.
Available Skills
Section titled “Available Skills”Web Search
Section titled “Web Search”Search the web and retrieve real-time information from public sources.
AI Agents can use web search to answer questions with up-to-date information, research topics, and gather context beyond their built-in knowledge.
Common use cases
- Research current events
- Gather information from the web
- Compare products and services
- Retrieve documentation and technical resources
- Find public information
Browser
Section titled “Browser”Control a headless browser to interact with websites programmatically.
The Browser skill can navigate web pages, extract content, fill forms, click buttons, and automate browser-based workflows.
Common use cases
- Scrape website content
- Extract structured information
- Fill and submit forms
- Capture screenshots
- Automate repetitive browser tasks
- Validate web applications
Typical Workflows
Section titled “Typical Workflows”Web & External skills can be combined with other built-in skills to create powerful automation workflows.
Examples include:
- Search the web for the latest information and summarize the results.
- Crawl a website and extract structured content into a knowledge base.
- Validate a deployed web application using browser automation.
- Collect information from multiple websites and generate an analytical report.
- Monitor a website for changes and notify a Google Chat space when updates are detected.