Cursor Agent Skills

Cursor Agent Skills are portable, version-controlled packages that extend AI agents with specialized, on-demand capabilities using an open standard.

Introduced in Cursor 2.4, Agent Skills (standardized via agentskills.io) transform your IDE from a text generator into a task executor by packaging domain-specific knowledge into SKILL.md files. Unlike static project rules, these skills load dynamically: the agent discovers them at startup and invokes them only when relevant to your current task. You can bundle executable scripts in Python or Bash, reference external documentation, or trigger custom commands like /fix-issue to automate complex workflows. From refactoring Swift concurrency patterns to generating live data dashboards, these portable modules ensure your agent acts with the precision of a domain expert (and stays in sync across your entire team via Git).

https://docs.cursor.com/context/skills