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title: "google-cloud-developer"
description: "Google Cloud guidance for coding agents: first-project onboarding, authentication and credential selection, and safety-critical validation for gcloud CLI commands. Includes the Google Developer Knowledge MCP server for g"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/google-cloud-developer
last-updated: 2026-10-11
---

# google-cloud-developer
Google Cloud guidance for coding agents: first-project onboarding, authentication and credential selection, and safety-critical validation for gcloud CLI commands. Includes the Google Developer Knowledge MCP server for grounded, up-to-date Google Cloud documentation.
- Slug: google-cloud-developer
- Publisher: Google LLC
- Repository: https://github.com/google/skills
- Manifest: plugins/cloud/google-cloud-developer/plugin.json
- Version: 1.1.10
- License: Apache-2.0
- Category (editorial): devops-cloud
- Skills: 5 (finding-google-skills, gcloud, google-cloud-recipe-auth, google-cloud-recipe-onboarding, retrieving-developer-knowledge)
- MCP servers: 1 (developer-knowledge)
- Stars: 21140
- Repository created: 2026-03-31
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-09
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/google-cloud-developer
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What google-cloud-developer does, in the publisher's words

This repository contains Agent Skills for Google products and technologies, including Google Cloud.

> [!NOTE] > This repository is under active development.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/skills/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- finding-google-skills: Locates and loads the right Google product skill on demand from a remote catalog index, instead of preloading every skill. Use at the START of any request touching a Google product, API, or developer platform, including Google Cloud (GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, BigQuery, Vertex AI, Spanner), Google Ads,…
- gcloud: Provides safety-critical validation, guardrails, and data reduction for gcloud CLI operations across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and infrastructure. Use when planning, generating, constructing, proposing, describing, or executing any gcloud CLI commands, including when answering questions…
- google-cloud-recipe-auth: Provides expert guidance on authenticating and authorizing to Google Cloud services and APIs, covering human users, service identities, Application Default Credentials (ADC), and best practices for secure access.
- google-cloud-recipe-onboarding: Guides a developer's first steps on Google Cloud, covering account creation, billing setup, project management, and deploying a first resource. Use when a new developer wants to initialize their first Google Cloud project, configure billing, and verify deployment. Don't use for enterprise organizat…
- retrieving-developer-knowledge: Searches, retrieves, and synthesizes official Google developer documentation across Google Cloud, AI/Gemini, Android, Chrome, Web, Flutter, Go, Firebase, and other Google developer platforms. Integrates with the Developer Knowledge MCP server (search_documents, get_documents, answer_query) or the D…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.

## MCP servers

- developer-knowledge: transport: streamable-http; url: https://developerknowledge.googleapis.com/mcp

Read from the plugin's own mcp.json. Environment variable names only, never values.