Skills on Cursor
Cursor supports Agent Skills natively. It reads skill folders from multiple locations, so skills installed for Claude Code or OpenAI Codex are picked up automatically — no duplication required.
Where skills live
Section titled “Where skills live”Cursor reads SKILL.md files from any of these directories at your project root:
.cursor/skills/— Cursor-specific.claude/skills/— shared with Claude Code.codex/skills/— shared with OpenAI Codex.agents/skills/— shared convention across Cursor, OpenAI Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and VS Code Copilot
The .agents/skills/ directory is the most portable — place skills there to share them across multiple editors from one location.
Installing skills
Section titled “Installing skills”- Place the skill folder in
.cursor/skills/(or one of the shared directories above) at your project root. - Open the project in Cursor — skills are discovered automatically.
→ Cursor Skills documentation (official Cursor docs)
Related
Section titled “Related”- Skills building block — what skills are and how they work across platforms
- Business-First AI Framework skills setup — step-by-step setup for the seven framework skills on Cursor