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Agent Skills for Cursor

Cursor's coding agent supports agent skills in .cursor/skills/ at the project level and ~/.cursor/skills/ globally, extending its agent with reusable instruction packages.

🗂️ 18

Skills available

📁 5

Categories

Open standard

📦 How to Install Agent Skills in Cursor

📂 Project Level

Skills for this project only

.cursor/skills/
mkdir -p .cursor/skills/
git clone <skill-url> \
  .cursor/skills/skill-name

🌍 Global Level

Skills available in every project

~/.cursor/skills/
mkdir -p ~/.cursor/skills/
git clone <skill-url> \
  ~/.cursor/skills/skill-name

📖 Official Cursor documentation

docs.cursor.com →

⭐ Featured Agent Skills for Cursor

Frontend Design

💻 coding

Guides creation of distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces that avoid generic 'AI slop' aesthetics. Official skill from Anthropic.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

Skill Creator

⚡ productivity

A meta-skill for creating new skills and iteratively improving them. Helps draft, test, and benchmark SKILL.md files. Official from Anthropic.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

Web App Testing

🧪 testing

Test local web applications using Playwright. Official Anthropic skill for end-to-end browser automation and test generation.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

MCP Server Builder

🧠 ai

Create MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to integrate external APIs and services. Official Anthropic skill.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

HashiCorp Terraform

⚙️ devops

A collection of Agent skills for HashiCorp products. Write HCL code, build modules, and develop Terraform providers.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

React Native Optimization

💻 coding

Performance optimization for React Native apps. Agent-optimized skills from the Callstack engineering team.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

Linear Integration

⚡ productivity

Manage Linear issues, projects, and teams directly from your coding agent using the Linear API.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

FastAPI Expert

💻 coding

Comprehensive FastAPI development guidelines including dependency injection, Pydantic v2 schemas, and async database integration.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

Next.js App Router

💻 coding

Strict enforcement of React Server Components, Server Actions, and Next.js 14+ best practices.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

💻 Coding 3 skills

Algorithmic Art

💻 coding

Create generative art using p5.js with seeded randomness. Official Anthropic agent skill for creative coding.

Claude Code Cursor Windsurf

Tailwind CSS Mastery

💻 coding

Design system implementation rules using Tailwind CSS, ensuring responsive design and consistent utility class usage.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

Go Microservices

💻 coding

Idiomatic Go guidelines for building resilient microservices with proper concurrency, error handling, and gRPC.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

⚡ Productivity 1 skills

Claude Bootstrap

⚡ productivity

Opinionated project initialization with security-first guardrails, spec-driven atomic todos, and LLM testing patterns.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

🧪 Testing 1 skills

Jest Testing Patterns

🧪 testing

Enforces comprehensive unit testing patterns with Jest, focusing on mocking strategies and high test coverage.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

⚙️ Devops 4 skills

Postgres Optimization

⚙️ devops

Database design guidelines focusing on index strategies, query optimization, connection pooling, and JSONB usage.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

Docker Best Practices

⚙️ devops

Rules for creating multi-stage, secure, and minimal Docker images for production deployments.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

GitHub Actions CI/CD

⚙️ devops

Standardized GitHub Actions workflows for testing, linting, and automated deployments with security best practices.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

AWS Architecture

⚙️ devops

Architectural guidelines for deploying scalable applications on AWS using serverless and containerized solutions.

Claude Code Copilot Cursor Gemini CLI +3

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