--- title: Top Skills for Cursor slug: cursor type: agent vendor: Cursor native: false canonical: https://top-agent-skills.com/skills-for-cursor skills: 78 rubric: 1.0 updated: 2026-08-14 --- # Top Skills for Cursor On Cursor the picks are frontend-design for turning a brief into a real interface, vercel-react-best-practices and next-js-app-router for framework conventions a linter will not catch, and docling for documents. Cursor runs SKILL.md through its plugin layer rather than natively, so compatibility here is verified per Skill rather than assumed — the characteristic failure is a Skill that loads and quietly does less, which is exactly what an assumed-compatible list hides. 78 Skills verified on Cursor. Vendor: Cursor. Runs SKILL.md through a compatibility layer. Compatibility here lists only Skills actually tested on this agent or shipping a publisher-documented path for it — never assumed. Vendor install docs: https://docs.cursor.com ## The ranking ### 1. frontend-design — score 92/100 (official-anthropic) Escape generic AI-generated UIs. Forces a bold, distinctive design direction before any code is written. - Best for: Greenfield landing pages, marketing sites, and any UI that should feel intentional rather than templated. - Not ideal for: Ports of an existing design system — frontend-design pushes a bold direction that may overwrite established tokens. - Publisher: Anthropic · MIT - Verified on: claude-code, claude-ai, claude-api, cursor, codex, gemini-cli, antigravity ```bash npx skills add github.com/anthropics/skills --skill frontend-design ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/frontend-design (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/frontend-design.md) ### 2. docling — score 66/100 (verified-org) One skill covering every document format the category exists for — including scanned PDFs and RAG chunking — from the maintainers of the parser itself. - Best for: Reading or converting documents the agent cannot open directly, at 65K stars and MIT: scanned PDFs, Office formats, tables, and chunking a corpus for retrieval. - Not ideal for: Producing polished Office files. Docling is a reader and converter — for generating a styled DOCX, XLSX or PPTX, the Anthropic document skills are the better fit. - Publisher: Docling project (LF AI & Data) · MIT - Verified on: claude-code, cursor, codex ```bash pip install docling && uvx library-skills --claude ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/docling (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/docling.md) ### 3. antigravity-awesome-skills — score 65/100 (community) 1,234+ skills in one bundle. Single install across AI coding assistants. - Best for: Teams that want a comprehensive starting set rather than picking 30 individually. - Not ideal for: Lean setups — you will install many skills you never use. - Publisher: Antigravity · MIT - Verified on: claude-code, cursor, codex, gemini-cli, antigravity ```bash npx antigravity-awesome-skills --claude ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/antigravity-awesome-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/antigravity-awesome-skills.md) ### 4. remotion-best-practices — score 64/100 (verified-org) Programmatic video done right. Idiomatic Remotion patterns auto-activate when detected. - Best for: Video demos, release announcements, explainer videos written in React. - Publisher: Remotion · Proprietary - Verified on: claude-code, cursor, codex ```bash npx skills add github.com/remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-best-practices ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/remotion-best-practices (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/remotion-best-practices.md) ### 5. superpowers — score 61/100 (community) Structured multi-step development. Brainstorm → spec → plan → build → review → merge — TDD baked in. - Best for: Long-running engineering tasks where you want each phase to handoff cleanly. - Not ideal for: Quick one-shot tasks — the orchestration overhead is not worth it. - Publisher: obra · MIT - Verified on: claude-code, cursor, codex ```bash npx skills add obra/superpowers ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/superpowers (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/superpowers.md) ### 6. firebase-hosting-basics — score 61/100 (verified-org) Firebase-authored. Init, configure, and one-step deploy to Firebase Hosting / App Hosting. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/firebase-hosting (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/firebase-hosting.md) ### 7. stripe-best-practices — score 59/100 (verified-org) Stripe's own integration playbook: pick the right API, set up Connect and billing, and handle keys and webhooks securely. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-best-practices (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-best-practices.md) ### 8. stripe-projects — score 59/100 (verified-org) Provision a Postgres, Redis, auth, or LLM provider through the Stripe Projects catalog rather than signing up by hand. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-projects (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-projects.md) ### 9. resend — score 59/100 (verified-org) Resend's own API skill: send transactional and batch email, handle inbound webhooks, and manage domains, templates, and keys. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/resend-email (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/resend-email.md) ### 10. email-best-practices — score 59/100 (verified-org) Resend's deliverability playbook: SPF/DKIM/DMARC, spam avoidance, bounce handling, and CAN-SPAM/GDPR/CASL compliance. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/email-best-practices (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/email-best-practices.md) ### 11. react-email — score 59/100 (verified-org) Build cross-client HTML emails as React components, with a visual editor and Resend-ready rendering. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/react-email (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/react-email.md) ### 12. agent-email-inbox — score 59/100 (verified-org) Give an agent a webhook-driven inbox with the sender-allowlist and content-filtering patterns that block prompt injection from inbound email. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/agent-email-inbox (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/agent-email-inbox.md) ### 13. upgrade-stripe — score 57/100 (verified-org) Stripe's version-upgrade guide: move API versions and SDKs without breaking your integration. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/upgrade-stripe (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/upgrade-stripe.md) ### 14. stripe-directory — score 57/100 (verified-org) Find vendors and partners for a job-to-be-done — and, where supported, let the agent purchase and consume the service. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-directory (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-directory.md) ### 15. webhook-skills — score 56/100 (verified-org) Hookdeck's webhook playbook: 40 provider-specific skills covering signature verification, idempotency, and event handling — each with runnable examples. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/hookdeck-webhook-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/hookdeck-webhook-skills.md) ### 16. composio — score 55/100 (verified-org) 1,000+ SaaS integrations as one skill. OAuth lifecycle, scoped credentials, structured actions. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/composio (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/composio.md) ### 17. openclaudia-skills — score 54/100 (community) Open-source marketing stack for AI coding agents. SEO, content, email, ads, analytics in one bundle. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/openclaudia-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/openclaudia-skills.md) ### 18. composio — score 54/100 (verified-org) Composio's official skill for connecting agents to 1000+ external apps: auth configs, per-user connections, tool execution, and triggers. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/composio-tool-router (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/composio-tool-router.md) ### 19. workos — score 54/100 (official-anthropic) Full-stack WorkOS implementation with auth provider migration paths. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/workos (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/workos.md) ### 20. workos-widgets — score 54/100 (official-anthropic) Drop-in WorkOS widgets with backend token wiring across every major framework. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/workos-widgets (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/workos-widgets.md) ### 21. paddle-agent-skills — score 53/100 (verified-org) Paddle's own integration playbook: ten skills for Checkout, webhooks, pricing pages, and subscription lifecycle on the merchant-of-record platform. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/paddle-agent-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/paddle-agent-skills.md) ### 22. twilio — score 53/100 (verified-org) Twilio's official Developer Kit: 55 skills across SMS, WhatsApp, Voice, Verify, SendGrid, and compliance — plus the Twilio MCP. Public beta. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/twilio-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/twilio-skills.md) ### 23. web-artifacts-builder — score 52/100 (official-anthropic) Self-contained HTML artifacts with React + shadcn/ui — no build step, just paste and run. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/web-artifacts-builder (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/web-artifacts-builder.md) ### 24. pdf — score 52/100 (official-anthropic) Extract, fill, merge. PDF manipulation with bundled scripts so Claude does not waste tokens generating them. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/pdf (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/pdf.md) ### 25. accessibility-review — score 52/100 (official-anthropic) Pre-handoff a11y audit that catches what design QA misses. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/accessibility-review (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/accessibility-review.md) ### 26. supabase-skill — score 51/100 (verified-org) Supabase done right. RLS policies, edge functions, realtime, auth — in idiomatic patterns. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/supabase-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/supabase-skill.md) ### 27. neon-postgres — score 51/100 (verified-org) Neon serverless Postgres done right — branching, pooling, and scale-to-zero, from Neon. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/neon-postgres (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/neon-postgres.md) ### 28. stripe-payments — score 51/100 (verified-org) Stripe done right. Checkout, subscriptions, webhooks, idempotency, metered billing. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-payments (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-payments.md) ### 29. shopify-storefront — score 51/100 (verified-org) Shopify Storefront API: cart, checkout, metafields, customer accounts, Hydrogen patterns. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/shopify-storefront (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/shopify-storefront.md) ### 30. architecture — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) ADR authoring + design review. Trade-offs, consequences, alternatives. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/architecture-adr (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/architecture-adr.md) ### 31. debug — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) Disciplined debugging loop. Reproduce, isolate, diagnose, fix. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/debug (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/debug.md) ### 32. deploy-checklist — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) The pre-ship checklist that catches the embarrassing stuff. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/deploy-checklist (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/deploy-checklist.md) ### 33. documentation — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) Technical writing that engineers will actually read and update. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/documentation (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/documentation.md) ### 34. incident-response — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) Incident triage + comms + blameless postmortem in one harness. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/incident-response (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/incident-response.md) ### 35. system-design — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) System design from requirements. APIs, data, boundaries, scale. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/system-design (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/system-design.md) ### 36. tech-debt — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) Honest tech-debt audit with a prioritized cleanup backlog. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/tech-debt (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/tech-debt.md) ### 37. testing-strategy — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) Layered test plan sized to the change's risk profile. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/testing-strategy (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/testing-strategy.md) ### 38. theme-factory — score 50/100 (official-anthropic) Single seed prompt → cohesive token system. Tokens that look intentional, not generated. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/theme-factory (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/theme-factory.md) ### 39. webapp-testing — score 50/100 (official-anthropic) Test local webapps with Playwright. Generation, run, report — end-to-end. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/webapp-testing (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/webapp-testing.md) ### 40. simplify — score 50/100 (official-anthropic) Review for reuse, quality, efficiency. Catches over-abstraction and dead code before merge. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/simplify (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/simplify.md) ### 41. verify — score 50/100 (official-anthropic) Real feature verification — run the app, drive it, prove it works. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/verify (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/verify.md) ### 42. vercel-web-design-guidelines — score 49/100 (verified-org) 100+ accessibility and UX rules from Vercel, applied as a structural audit on your UI code. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/vercel-web-design-guidelines (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/vercel-web-design-guidelines.md) ### 43. vercel-react-best-practices — score 49/100 (verified-org) 57 React/Next.js performance rules, applied as a structural review on your code. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/vercel-react-best-practices (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/vercel-react-best-practices.md) ### 44. trail-of-bits — score 49/100 (verified-org) Security audits run by a real security firm. CodeQL + Semgrep + audit workflows. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/trail-of-bits (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/trail-of-bits.md) ### 45. firecrawl — score 49/100 (verified-org) Web scraping, search, and browser automation built to be agent-friendly. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/firecrawl (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/firecrawl.md) ### 46. planetscale-skills — score 49/100 (verified-org) PlanetScale's schema branching and index-aware queries, packaged for agents. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/planetscale-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/planetscale-skills.md) ### 47. shadcn-context — score 49/100 (verified-org) shadcn/ui context: components, patterns, and the right composition by default. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/shadcn-context (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/shadcn-context.md) ### 48. prisma-orm — score 49/100 (verified-org) Prisma migrations and queries by the book. Index-aware, migration-safe, type-correct. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/prisma-orm (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/prisma-orm.md) ### 49. redis-cache-patterns — score 49/100 (verified-org) Caching without the bugs. Invalidation, write-through, cache-aside, distributed locks. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/redis-cache-patterns (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/redis-cache-patterns.md) ### 50. next-js-app-router — score 49/100 (verified-org) Next.js App Router by the book. Server components, streaming, parallel routes. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/next-js-app-router (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/next-js-app-router.md) ### 51. notion-api-skill — score 49/100 (verified-org) Notion API: page/database CRUD, block hierarchies, rich text, schema sync. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/notion-api-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/notion-api-skill.md) ### 52. vercel-deploy-claimable — score 49/100 (verified-org) Ship to a live Vercel URL from chat — auto-detects the framework, returns a claim link. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/vercel-deploy-claimable (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/vercel-deploy-claimable.md) ### 53. design-critique — score 49/100 (official-anthropic) Senior-designer feedback on demand. Hierarchy, usability, consistency, motion. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/design-critique (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/design-critique.md) ### 54. design-handoff — score 49/100 (official-anthropic) Turn a final design into a spec engineers can implement directly. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/design-handoff (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/design-handoff.md) ### 55. design-system — score 49/100 (official-anthropic) Design-system hygiene at speed. Audit, document, extend. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/design-system (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/design-system.md) ### 56. ux-copy — score 49/100 (official-anthropic) Microcopy that respects the user. Errors, empty states, CTAs, onboarding. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/ux-copy (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/ux-copy.md) ### 57. sentry-error-handling — score 48/100 (verified-org) Sentry the right way. Source maps, releases, breadcrumbs, performance, structured tags. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/sentry-error-handling (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/sentry-error-handling.md) ### 58. composition-patterns — score 47/100 (verified-org) Boolean prop hell → compound components. Cleaner React component APIs by construction. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/composition-patterns (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/composition-patterns.md) ### 59. agent-browser — score 47/100 (verified-org) Deterministic web control. ref-based clicks/fills, no flaky selectors, parallel sessions. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/agent-browser (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/agent-browser.md) ### 60. seo-geo-claude-skills — score 47/100 (community) 20 SEO + GEO skills in one bundle. Keyword research, audits, rank tracking, AI search optimization. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/seo-geo-claude-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/seo-geo-claude-skills.md) ### 61. alirezarezvani-skills — score 47/100 (community) 232+ skills across engineering, marketing, product, compliance, advisory. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/alirezarezvani-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/alirezarezvani-skills.md) ### 62. expo-skills — score 47/100 (verified-org) Expo workflows: navigation, EAS, OTA, native modules. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/expo-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/expo-skills.md) ### 63. mongodb-patterns — score 47/100 (verified-org) MongoDB aggregations and indexing without the foot-guns. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/mongodb-patterns (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/mongodb-patterns.md) ### 64. tdd-skill — score 46/100 (community) TDD with red/green/refactor as a concrete TypeScript walkthrough. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/tdd-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/tdd-skill.md) ### 65. valyu — score 46/100 (verified-org) Web search + 36 authoritative data sources. SEC, PubMed, ChEMBL, FRED — agent-grade research. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/valyu (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/valyu.md) ### 66. corey-haines-marketing — score 45/100 (community) 32+ marketing skills in one bundle. CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics, email, growth. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/corey-haines-marketing (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/corey-haines-marketing.md) ### 67. humanizer — score 45/100 (community) Strip the AI tells. Multi-pass editing for content that reads opinionated, not generated. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/humanizer (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/humanizer.md) ### 68. terraform-claude-skill — score 43/100 (community) Terraform expertise on tap. State inspection, module validators, safety-first IaC. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/terraform-claude-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/terraform-claude-skill.md) ### 69. devops-engineer — score 43/100 (community) Senior DevOps engineer persona — CI/CD, containers, blue-green/canary, IaC across clouds. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/devops-engineer (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/devops-engineer.md) ### 70. browser-use — score 43/100 (community) Headless browser as an agent tool. Navigate JS-heavy pages, fill forms, extract content. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/browser-use (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/browser-use.md) ### 71. frontend-slides — score 43/100 (community) HTML slide decks from prose. Easy to embed, version, and edit later. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/frontend-slides (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/frontend-slides.md) ### 72. mermaid-diagrams — score 43/100 (community) Mermaid diagrams from prose with self-validating syntax. Sequence, flowchart, ER, state. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/mermaid-diagrams (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/mermaid-diagrams.md) ### 73. linkedin-content-skill — score 43/100 (community) LinkedIn posts that read human. Hook patterns, voice modeling, carousel scripts. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/linkedin-content-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/linkedin-content-skill.md) ### 74. system-architecture-diagrams — score 42/100 (community) C4, deployment, sequence-of-events architecture diagrams generated from natural-language descriptions. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/system-architecture-diagrams (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/system-architecture-diagrams.md) ### 75. k8s-security-policies — score 40/100 (community) Kubernetes hardening by the book. NetworkPolicies, RBAC, OPA, service mesh. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/k8s-security-policies (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/k8s-security-policies.md) ### 76. playwright-skill — score 40/100 (community) Playwright patterns: clicks, fills, waits, retries. The do-it-right defaults. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/playwright-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/playwright-skill.md) ### 77. d3js-skill — score 40/100 (community) D3.js patterns for interactive viz that does not look stock. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/d3js-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/d3js-skill.md) ### 78. excalidraw-generator — score 40/100 (community) Excalidraw JSON diagrams from prose, with rendering self-checks. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/excalidraw-generator (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/excalidraw-generator.md) ## Common questions **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. --- _Top Agent Skills. Machine-readable twin of https://top-agent-skills.com/skills-for-cursor._ _JSON: https://top-agent-skills.com/skills-for-cursor.json · whole catalog: https://top-agent-skills.com/skills.json (CC BY 4.0)_