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Gemini API Set up your coding assistant with Gemini MCP and Skills
Instructions for configuring a coding assistant using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Gemini Skills to enable tool-based development workflows.
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Gemini API Set up your coding assistant with Gemini MCP and Skills
Instructions for configuring a coding assistant using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Gemini Skills to enable tool-based development workflows.
When To Use
Use when you need to integrate the Model Context Protocol and Gemini Skills into a coding assistant to enable automated development tasks.
Reference Files
| File | Contains | Use For |
|---|---|---|
SKILL.md | Entry point: scope, routing table, and workflow. | Start here. |
docs/gemini-api-set-up-your-coding-assistant-with-mcp-and-skills-workflow-guide.md | A guide explaining how to connect the Gemini Docs MCP and add API development skills to an AI coding assistant. | Questions about a guide explaining how to connect the Gemini Docs MCP and add API development skills to an AI coding assistant. |
examples/gemini-api-set-up-your-coding-assistant-with-mcp-and-skills-gemini-api-m.text | The npx command used to add the Gemini API documentation MCP server to a coding assistant. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in The npx command used to add the Gemini API documentation MCP server to a coding assistant. |
examples/gemini-api-set-up-your-coding-assistant-with-mcp-and-skills-gemini-api-m-2.text | A command line instruction using npx to add the gemini-api-dev skill to the global environment. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in A command line instruction using npx to add the gemini-api-dev skill to the global environment. |
examples/gemini-api-set-up-your-coding-assistant-with-mcp-and-skills-gemini-api-m-3.text | The npx command used to install the gemini-api-dev skills package via the ctx7 CLI. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in The npx command used to install the gemini-api-dev skills package via the ctx7 CLI. |
examples/gemini-api-set-up-your-coding-assistant-with-mcp-and-skills-gemini-api-m-4.text | An npx command used to add the gemini-live-api-dev skill globally via the Gemini MCP CLI. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in An npx command used to add the gemini-live-api-dev skill globally via the Gemini MCP CLI. |
examples/gemini-api-set-up-your-coding-assistant-with-mcp-and-skills-gemini-api-m-5.text | The npx command used to install the Gemini live API development skills via the ctx7 CLI. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in The npx command used to install the Gemini live API development skills via the ctx7 CLI. |
examples/gemini-api-set-up-your-coding-assistant-with-mcp-and-skills-gemini-skill.text | The npx command used to globally add the gemini-interactions-api skill to the Gemini MCP environment. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in The npx command used to globally add the gemini-interactions-api skill to the Gemini MCP environment. |
examples/gemini-api-set-up-your-coding-assistant-with-mcp-and-skills-gemini-skill-2.text | The npx command used to install the gemini-interactions-api skill package via the ctx7 CLI. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in The npx command used to install the gemini-interactions-api skill package via the ctx7 CLI. |
examples/gemini-api-set-up-your-coding-assistant-with-mcp-and-skills-gemini-api-m-6.text | An npx command used to add the gemini-api-dev skill to a Gemini MCP environment. | Exact payloads, commands, or snippets shown in An npx command used to add the gemini-api-dev skill to a Gemini MCP environment. |
What This Skill Covers
- AI coding assistants are powerful but have limitations—training data cuts off at a specific date, missing new API features and changes. Without access to Gem...
- Main sections:
Connect the Gemini Docs MCP,Add API Development Skills,gemini-api-dev,Install with skills.sh,Install with Context7.
Workflow
- Open the most relevant file under
docs/for the exact documented workflow and wording. - Open
schemas/files for exact structured contracts. - Open
examples/files for concrete requests, commands, snippets, and manifests. - Do not add behavior or configuration that is not present in the attached source files.
Canonical source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/coding-agents