Firebase agent skills

Firebase agent skills (GitHub) are portable, self-contained modules of Firebase-specific knowledge, instructions, and workflows. They're designed to help AI assistants understand Firebase best practices and execute complex tasks with higher accuracy and lower token cost. For a full list of the Firebase agent skills, see Available skills.

Get started

Firebase agent skills work with any AI assistant that supports skills, including Antigravity, Gemini CLI, Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.

Install Firebase agent skills

In most cases, Firebase agent skills can be installed in your preferred editor with a single command:

npx skills add firebase/agent-skills

gemini extensions install https://github.com/firebase/agent-skills

claude plugin marketplace add firebase/agent-skills
claude plugin install firebase@firebase

npx skills add firebase/agent-skills

npx skills add firebase/agent-skills

npx skills add firebase/agent-skills

Use Firebase agent skills

AI assistants are designed to use skills automatically whenever they detect that a skill's description matches your current request. However, skills can also be manually invoked. This is often done by typing / in the agent chat and searching for the skill name.

Core components of a skill

Each agent skill is a specialized package that can provide the AI assistant with the following components:

• Specialized instructions: Detailed guidance on achieving specific tasks, such as implementing authentication or provisioning a Cloud Firestore database.
• Best practices: Built-in security and performance patterns to ensure your app follows Firebase recommendations from the start.
• Automation scripts: Executable code that allows your AI agent to perform local environment setup or configuration automatically.

Benefits to using skills

Using agent skills reduces the manual effort of searching documentation while improving the efficiency of your AI interactions.

Reduced token costs

Conventional AI integrations often load massive amounts of documentation upfront, which consumes significant tokens and increases session costs. Agent skills use progressive disclosure to minimize this overhead:

• The agent initially only "scans" brief metadata to see if a skill is relevant.
• Detailed instructions and resources are only loaded when the agent determines they're necessary for your specific task.

AI-guided implementation

Instead of manually searching through documentation, you can describe your intent in natural language. Skills guide your AI assistant to perform tasks such as the following:

• Add a sign-in screen to my web app.
• Save my to-do list items to a database.
• Help me deploy my new web app.

For a full list of the Firebase agent skills, see Available skills.

Use skills alongside the Firebase MCP server

Agent skills are designed to complement the Firebase MCP server:

• Firebase MCP server: Designed for AI-assisted development workflows, enabling AI assistants to interact with your Firebase projects, resources, and data programmatically.
• Firebase agent skills: Provide the quick instructions and recommended practices that tell an agent how to perform Firebase tasks through token-efficient progressive disclosure. They educate the agent on how to use tools like the Firebase CLI and MCP server effectively.

Available skills

Firebase provides a suite of skills for core products. Skills for additional Firebase products and features are coming soon!

Next steps

• Learn how to use agent skills with Gemini CLI.
• Learn how to use agent skills with Antigravity.