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gemini-3.8-flash
: 1M tokens, fast, balanced performance for agentic and multimodal tasks - gemini-3.5-flash-lite
: 1M tokens, fastest, lowest-cost 3.5 model for high-throughput execution - gemini-3.1-pro-preview
: 1M tokens, complex reasoning, coding, research - gemini-3.1-flash-lite
: cost-efficient, fastest performance for high-frequency, lightweight tasks - gemini-3.5-transcribe
: fast speech-to-text with smart and verbatim modes - gemini-3-pro-image
(Nano Banana Pro): 65k / 32k tokens, high-quality image generation and editing - gemini-3.1-flash-image
(Nano Banana 2): 65k / 32k tokens, fast, efficient image generation and editing - gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image
(Nano Banana 2 Lite): 65k / 32k tokens, ultra-fast image generation and editing - gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview
: expressive text-to-speech with Director's Chair prompting - gemini-omni-1.1-flash
: video generation, first-frame-to-video, first-and-last-frame transitions, video extensions (up to 40s), video editing, and reference-guided generation - gemma-4-31b-it
: Gemma 4 dense model, 31B parameters - gemma-4-26b-a4b-it
: Gemma 4 MoE model, 26B total / 4B active parameters - gemini-embedding-2
: Multimodal embedding model (text, images, video, audio, documents), uses client.models.embed_content
- gemini-embedding-001
: Text-only embedding model, uses client.models.embed_content
Highlights
gemini-3.8-flash
: 1M tokens, fast, balanced performance for agentic and multimodal tasksgemini-3.5-flash-lite
: 1M tokens, fastest, lowest-cost 3.5 model for high-throughput executiongemini-3.1-pro-preview
: 1M tokens, complex reasoning, coding, researchgemini-3.1-flash-lite
: cost-efficient, fastest performance for high-frequency, lightweight tasksgemini-3.5-transcribe
: fast speech-to-text with smart and verbatim modes
When to use it. Use when writing code that calls the Gemini API for text generation, multi-turn chat, multimodal understanding, image generation, video generation, streaming responses, background research tasks…
Install
npx skills add google-gemini/gemini-skills --skill gemini-api-dev
Or copy the skill folder manually:
git clone https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-skills.git
cp -r gemini-skills/skills/gemini-api-dev/ ~/.claude/skills/gemini-api-dev
Source: google-gemini/gemini-skills — 3,975 stars, Apache-2.0, last pushed 2026-09-02.
