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Google Maps Platform Agent Skills
Portable skill modules that teach AI agents how to build with the platform across Web, Android, iOS, and Web Services. Installed with one command.
The goal
Grounded retrieval (Code Assist) tells an agent what's true. It doesn't teach an agent how to work. The goal: package the workflows too, so any agent can build with the platform the way an experienced platform engineer would.
What shipped
Our team launched Google Maps Platform agent skills: portable modules for building across Web, Android, iOS, and Web Services. One command, npx skills add googlemaps/agent-skills, installs them in AI Studio and other compatible agent environments. We use evals as a release gate for each skill.
Skills and Code Assist run as one system. Skills teach the workflow. The MCP server grounds the details in retrieved documentation.
What I learned
A skill is executable documentation: versioned, installable, and testable against a real task.