Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug I experiment in Nightly with a skill below and Agent behaves as usual, rather than following the instructions from the Skill: --- name: Techlead description: How to be a Senior AI --- # My Skill You are the tech lead. Execu…

Hey @Artemonim , The Agent Skills feature is in beta ( source ). Workaround: Use Rules instead - create a .cursor/rules/techlead.mdc file with your instructions and set the apply mode to “Always” or “Agent Requested” (manual). This should give you the behavior you’re looking for until Skills is fully…

What’s the point of Skills anyway if we already have Rules that the agent follows better?

always applied rules eat into your context window, agent requested ones ofthen just dont work (or you dont know if they do) skills are loaded too but only the frontmatter (saving context window space) and the agent can decide to read the rest if the frontmatter seems interesting enough best usecas…

Agent ignores skill

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Pacman1984 (Pacman1984) January 26, 2026, 10:08pm 6

Yes, this should be a major point of discussions: Rules, Commands, Subagents, Skills and other Taxonomy Headaches

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Agent ignores skill

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