Prompts Are Tools Now. Chrome Just Made It Official.

Google's new Skills feature in Chrome doesn't look like much. Save a prompt. Run it later. Share it with a team. But underneath the simplicity is a quiet architectural shift: the line between asking an AI something and building a tool just dissolved. This matters for anyone building agent systems. We've spent years treating prompts as configuration — static strings buried in JSON files, version-controlled like code, deployed like infrastructure. The reality is messier. Production prompts rot. Th