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Cursor Skills: add and use Agent Skills in Cursor

Cursor reads Skills from more folders than Claude Code or Codex, but it quietly skips any Skill whose name doesn’t match its folder. Here’s where to put Skills, how to run them, and how they differ from Cursor rules.

For
Cursor users
Time
8 min to complete

SKILL LIBRARY GUIDE

Install and use a Skill

Browse the Skill Library library, sign in, and open a published Skill. Select Download to get its ZIP package. Your account must have access to the selected Skill.

Install from a ZIP

  1. Extract the downloaded ZIP into a separate folder.
  2. Read SKILL.md and check the required tools and dependencies.
  3. Ask your AI agent to install the extracted folder into the workspace you choose.
  4. Run a small example and review the result before using it for your project.

Updates

Download the newly published version from the Skill page. Back up your local changes before replacing an existing installation.

Skill Library currently supports website downloads. CLI installation and automatic updates are not available.

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