SkillPiece

Public Chrome beta

Start with one useful idea.

Install SkillPiece, choose a model, and turn one passage into something you can rehearse and explain. Your first capture should take only a few minutes.

Before you begin

SkillPiece currently works in Google Chrome on a desktop or laptop. The public beta is open to everyone through the Chrome Web Store, with no invitation required.

Install SkillPiece

  1. Open the public SkillPiece listing in the Chrome Web Store.
  2. Select Add to Chrome and confirm the installation.
  3. Open Chrome's Extensions menu and pin SkillPiece to the toolbar.
  4. Reload any article tabs that were already open.

If installation is unavailable, a managed work or school device may prevent Chrome extension installation.

Connect a model

Use your own provider

Bring your own model and API key for the most consistent experience across supported computers.

  1. Open SkillPiece from the toolbar.
  2. Add an OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, or OpenAI-compatible provider.
  3. Enter the exact model identifier and an API key when the provider requires one.
  4. Select Test connection, then Save and use provider when every required check passes.

The custom provider guide explains hosted providers, local Ollama, compatible endpoints, and how SkillPiece stores API keys.

Optional and hardware-dependent

Or use Chrome's built-in model

Chrome's built-in model needs no API key and processes requests on your device, but availability and performance depend heavily on your computer's storage, memory, CPU, and GPU. It is not available on every machine.

Important: The model is supplied and managed by Chrome. Enabling the flags exposes the model API, but it does not guarantee that the model will download, perform reliably, or pass SkillPiece's required capability checks. Use your own provider if any required check fails.

To enable it during the beta:

  1. Update Google Chrome to the latest version.
  2. Open chrome://flags/#prompt-api-for-gemini-nano and choose Enabled.
  3. Open chrome://flags/#optimization-guide-on-device-model and choose Enabled. If Chrome still rejects the device during testing, Enabled BypassPerfRequirement can bypass detection, but it cannot make unsupported hardware run the model reliably.
  4. Fully quit Chrome, relaunch it, return to SkillPiece, and select Test local model.

Read Chrome's current built-in AI requirements or use the SkillPiece troubleshooting guide if the model is unavailable or still downloading.

Capture your first idea

  1. Open an ordinary article and select a short passage worth remembering.
  2. Choose Capture selection.
  3. Follow Open Topic to see complete Concepts appear as they become ready.
  4. Choose Start rehearsing to review with the answer visible, or Start explaining to answer from memory.

For your first try, capture one focused passage rather than a whole page. It makes the learning loop easier to see.

You can also open a Topic, choose Add sources, and import PDF, DOCX, TXT, or Markdown documents. SkillPiece extracts the text locally for review before you choose Capture into Topic.

You are ready.

SkillPiece keeps your library in this Chrome profile and brings remembered ideas back when they are ready for practice. There are no streaks and no obligation to practice every day.

Before removing the extension, clearing its data, or resetting SkillPiece, export a full backup from Settings.

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