Cursor Skills Directory

Cursor AI Skills & Rules

The largest directory of Cursor AI skills and .cursorrules. Optimize your Cursor IDE with custom rules for every framework, language, and workflow.

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What Are Cursor Skills?

Cursor skills (also known as .cursorrules) are project-level instruction files that tell Cursor AI how to behave in your codebase. They enforce coding standards, prevent hallucinations, and give Cursor domain-specific knowledge about your tech stack.

  • Enforce consistent coding style across your team
  • Prevent AI hallucinations with explicit constraints
  • Framework-specific rules (React, Vue, Next.js, Python)
  • Compatible with SKILL.md and .cursorrules formats
  • Cross-compatible with Claude Code and Codex
  • Project-level and global rules supported
  • Community-driven with 1,000+ rules and skills
  • Copy-paste or install with npx skills add

Featured Cursor Skills

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tavily-ai/tavily-best-practices

Build production-ready Tavily integrations with best practices baked in. Reference documentation for developers using coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) to implement web search, content extraction, crawling, and research in agentic workflows, RAG systems, or autonomous agents.

$ npx skills add tavily-ai/skills
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niftymonkey/skills

Custom agent skills for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more. Install via npx skills@latest add niftymonkey/skills

$ npx skills add niftymonkey/skills
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mattnowdev/thinking-partner

Thinking partner skill for AI agents — 150+ mental models, orientation detection, cognitive operations. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, GitHub Copilot.

$ npx skills add mattnowdev/thinking-partner
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emretheus/codewit

One minimal desktop app for every AI coding agent — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Grok, Kilo Code, OpenCode & Pi.

$ npx skills add emretheus/codewit
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edgar-durand/codeagent-mobile-clients

Public source for CodeAgent Mobile clients: codeam-cli (npm), VS Code / Cursor / Windsurf extension, and JetBrains plugin. Control AI coding agents (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor) from your phone.

$ npx skills add edgar-durand/codeagent-mobile-clients
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minhtran3124/cursor-skills

name: visual description: Skill graph visualizer — scans all SKILL.md files in skills/, builds a directed relationship graph from explicit relationships frontmatter (falling back to content inference), and generates both

$ npx skills add minhtran3124/cursor-skills
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zhangqi444/open-forge

Let your AI coding agent self-host any open-source app for you. 2,200+ verified recipes — provisioning, DNS, TLS, hardening. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Aider, OpenClaw, Hermes.

$ npx skills add zhangqi444/open-forge
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sagarrroy/sandspy

Real-time security monitor for AI coding agents. See what Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and others actually do on your machine.

$ npx skills add sagarrroy/sandspy
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Lum1104/Understand-Anything

Graphs that teach > graphs that impress. Turn any code into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and more.

$ npx skills add Lum1104/Understand-Anything
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rooftop-Owl/notion-ao-research

Agent-oriented research workflow skills for Notion MCP. NL database operations, workspace setup, design handbook (EN/KO). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or any MCP client.

$ npx skills add rooftop-Owl/notion-ao-research
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sathish316/pi-omniagent-extensions

Pi coding agent extensions that helps you connect to all coding agents from one place using ACP and maximize your AI credits across Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, Rovo

$ npx skills add sathish316/pi-omniagent-extensions
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hatch3r/hatch3r

Production-ready spec driven development setup for AI coding agents in any repo with one command. Pre-configured with 11 agents, 22 skills, 18 rules, 25 commands & MCP integrations for Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Windsurf, Amp, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cline & OpenCode.

$ npx skills add hatch3r/hatch3r
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How to Use Cursor Skills

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Install with add-skill

Automatically downloads and sets up the skill in your project.

npx skills add author/skill-repo
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Or add .cursorrules directly

Copy the skill content into your .cursorrules file. Cursor reads this automatically.

# Create .cursorrules in your project root
cp skill-repo/SKILL.md .cursorrules
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Cursor loads rules on every prompt

Cursor injects your .cursorrules into every AI interaction, ensuring consistent behavior across your entire project.

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