Find Skills

Find Skills

Overview

Two main workflows:

1. Local search — browse already-installed skills under ~/.cursor/skills/ and .cursor/skills/
2. Remote install — pull a skill from a GitHub repository using the npx skills CLI

1. Search locally installed skills

Personal skills (available in all projects):

~/.cursor/skills/

Project skills (current repo only):

.cursor/skills/

To list what's installed, read the SKILL.md frontmatter in each subdirectory. The description field explains what the skill does and when to trigger it.

2. Install a skill from GitHub

Syntax

npx skills add <github-repo-url> --skill <skill-name>

Example

npx skills add https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills --skill find-skills

Steps

1. Identify the GitHub repository that hosts the skill collection.
2. Identify the skill name (subdirectory name inside the repo's skills/ or root folder).
3. Run the npx skills add command above in the terminal.
4. The CLI installs the skill into ~/.cursor/skills/<skill-name>/ by default.
5. Verify installation by checking that ~/.cursor/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md exists.

Flags

3. Browse a GitHub skills repository

To see all available skills in a repo before installing:

npx skills list https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>

This lists all available skill names with their descriptions so you can pick the right one.

Tips

• After installing a new skill, restart Cursor or reload the window so the agent picks it up.
• Skill names are case-sensitive and use lowercase-with-hyphens convention.
• If a skill already exists locally, npx skills add will prompt before overwriting.