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Top Skills for Cursor
AI-first IDE. SKILL.md works via the Cursor plugin layer; per-skill compatibility verified here.
About Cursor
Cursor is the AI-first IDE — a fork of VS Code with deep Claude, GPT and Gemini integration — and it adopted SKILL.md support through its plugin layer. Skills on Cursor sit alongside Cursor's own rules system (`.cursorrules` and `.cursor/rules/`), and the best-published Cursor Skills work well in both contexts.
The install model is repository-scoped or user-scoped. Drop the Skill folder under `.cursor/skills/` for a per-project install, or place it in the global Cursor config directory for user-wide availability. Cursor's plugin marketplace is the easiest route — search for the Skill and install with one click.
Cursor is the right target for engineers who prefer an IDE over a CLI workflow but want the same Skill-driven discipline. Compatibility with Claude Code Skills is high for any Skill that does not depend on Claude Code's specific Bash and subagent primitives. We rank Cursor Skills with provenance, install count, and the verified-compatibility filter — Skills tested in both Cursor and Claude Code rank above those tested in only one.
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Best Skills for Cursor
Every skill below is verified to work with Cursor. Ranked by composite score.
One skill covering every document format the category exists for — including scanned PDFs and RAG chunking — from the maintainers of the parser itself.
1,234+ skills in one bundle. Single install across AI coding assistants.
Programmatic video done right. Idiomatic Remotion patterns auto-activate when detected.
Structured multi-step development. Brainstorm → spec → plan → build → review → merge — TDD baked in.
Firebase-authored. Init, configure, and one-step deploy to Firebase Hosting / App Hosting.
Stripe's own integration playbook: pick the right API, set up Connect and billing, and handle keys and webhooks securely.
Provision a Postgres, Redis, auth, or LLM provider through the Stripe Projects catalog rather than signing up by hand.
Resend's own API skill: send transactional and batch email, handle inbound webhooks, and manage domains, templates, and keys.
Resend's deliverability playbook: SPF/DKIM/DMARC, spam avoidance, bounce handling, and CAN-SPAM/GDPR/CASL compliance.
Build cross-client HTML emails as React components, with a visual editor and Resend-ready rendering.
Give an agent a webhook-driven inbox with the sender-allowlist and content-filtering patterns that block prompt injection from inbound email.
Stripe's version-upgrade guide: move API versions and SDKs without breaking your integration.
Find vendors and partners for a job-to-be-done — and, where supported, let the agent purchase and consume the service.
Hookdeck's webhook playbook: 40 provider-specific skills covering signature verification, idempotency, and event handling — each with runnable examples.
Composio's official skill for connecting agents to 1000+ external apps: auth configs, per-user connections, tool execution, and triggers.
1,000+ SaaS integrations as one skill. OAuth lifecycle, scoped credentials, structured actions.
Supabase done right. RLS policies, edge functions, realtime, auth — in idiomatic patterns.
Neon serverless Postgres done right — branching, pooling, and scale-to-zero, from Neon.
Open-source marketing stack for AI coding agents. SEO, content, email, ads, analytics in one bundle.
Full-stack WorkOS implementation with auth provider migration paths.
Drop-in WorkOS widgets with backend token wiring across every major framework.
Web scraping, search, and browser automation built to be agent-friendly.
PlanetScale's schema branching and index-aware queries, packaged for agents.
shadcn/ui context: components, patterns, and the right composition by default.
Prisma migrations and queries by the book. Index-aware, migration-safe, type-correct.
Caching without the bugs. Invalidation, write-through, cache-aside, distributed locks.
Paddle's own integration playbook: ten skills for Checkout, webhooks, pricing pages, and subscription lifecycle on the merchant-of-record platform.
Twilio's official Developer Kit: 55 skills across SMS, WhatsApp, Voice, Verify, SendGrid, and compliance — plus the Twilio MCP. Public beta.
Self-contained HTML artifacts with React + shadcn/ui — no build step, just paste and run.
Extract, fill, merge. PDF manipulation with bundled scripts so Claude does not waste tokens generating them.
Sentry the right way. Source maps, releases, breadcrumbs, performance, structured tags.
Pre-handoff a11y audit that catches what design QA misses.
Deterministic web control. ref-based clicks/fills, no flaky selectors, parallel sessions.
MongoDB aggregations and indexing without the foot-guns.
Stripe done right. Checkout, subscriptions, webhooks, idempotency, metered billing.
Notion API: page/database CRUD, block hierarchies, rich text, schema sync.
Shopify Storefront API: cart, checkout, metafields, customer accounts, Hydrogen patterns.
ADR authoring + design review. Trade-offs, consequences, alternatives.
Disciplined debugging loop. Reproduce, isolate, diagnose, fix.
The pre-ship checklist that catches the embarrassing stuff.
Technical writing that engineers will actually read and update.
Incident triage + comms + blameless postmortem in one harness.
System design from requirements. APIs, data, boundaries, scale.
Honest tech-debt audit with a prioritized cleanup backlog.
Layered test plan sized to the change's risk profile.
Single seed prompt → cohesive token system. Tokens that look intentional, not generated.
Test local webapps with Playwright. Generation, run, report — end-to-end.
Review for reuse, quality, efficiency. Catches over-abstraction and dead code before merge.
Real feature verification — run the app, drive it, prove it works.
100+ accessibility and UX rules from Vercel, applied as a structural audit on your UI code.
57 React/Next.js performance rules, applied as a structural review on your code.
Security audits run by a real security firm. CodeQL + Semgrep + audit workflows.
Strip the AI tells. Multi-pass editing for content that reads opinionated, not generated.
Next.js App Router by the book. Server components, streaming, parallel routes.
Ship to a live Vercel URL from chat — auto-detects the framework, returns a claim link.
Senior-designer feedback on demand. Hierarchy, usability, consistency, motion.
Turn a final design into a spec engineers can implement directly.
Design-system hygiene at speed. Audit, document, extend.
Microcopy that respects the user. Errors, empty states, CTAs, onboarding.
Web search + 36 authoritative data sources. SEC, PubMed, ChEMBL, FRED — agent-grade research.
Boolean prop hell → compound components. Cleaner React component APIs by construction.
Headless browser as an agent tool. Navigate JS-heavy pages, fill forms, extract content.
20 SEO + GEO skills in one bundle. Keyword research, audits, rank tracking, AI search optimization.
232+ skills across engineering, marketing, product, compliance, advisory.
Expo workflows: navigation, EAS, OTA, native modules.
Mermaid diagrams from prose with self-validating syntax. Sequence, flowchart, ER, state.
LinkedIn posts that read human. Hook patterns, voice modeling, carousel scripts.
TDD with red/green/refactor as a concrete TypeScript walkthrough.
32+ marketing skills in one bundle. CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics, email, growth.
Excalidraw JSON diagrams from prose, with rendering self-checks.
Terraform expertise on tap. State inspection, module validators, safety-first IaC.
Senior DevOps engineer persona — CI/CD, containers, blue-green/canary, IaC across clouds.
HTML slide decks from prose. Easy to embed, version, and edit later.
C4, deployment, sequence-of-events architecture diagrams generated from natural-language descriptions.
Kubernetes hardening by the book. NetworkPolicies, RBAC, OPA, service mesh.
Playwright patterns: clicks, fills, waits, retries. The do-it-right defaults.
D3.js patterns for interactive viz that does not look stock.
FAQ
Frequently asked
How do Cursor Skills compare to .cursorrules?
Cursor rules are global to the project; Skills are loaded conditionally based on triggering. Best teams use both — rules for invariant coding conventions, Skills for task-specific workflows.
How do I install a Skill in Cursor?
Drop the folder under `.cursor/skills/` for project-scoped, or the global Cursor config dir for user-wide. The marketplace gives one-click install for popular Skills.
Do Claude Code Skills work in Cursor?
Most do — the SKILL.md spec is shared. Skills that depend on Claude Code's specific Bash, Workflow or subagent primitives may need adaptation; per-Skill compatibility is listed on each Skill page.
Can Cursor Skills drive the editor?
Yes — through Cursor's built-in tools (apply code change, run terminal command, etc.). Skills can edit files, run commands and read diagnostics like a human engineer would.
Which model is best in Cursor?
Claude Opus 4.7+ for the high-effort Skills (review, refactor, architecture); Claude Sonnet 4.6 for fast iteration. GPT-5 and Gemini are also supported but Anthropic Skills are tuned for Claude.
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