Agent Skills MUST see symlinks

Ideas Feature Requests
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Feature request for product/service

Chat

Describe the request

The Cursor agent tells me that the built in LS tool it uses to discover the available Agent Skills does not “see” symlinks. This is bad behavior. It needs to see and follow symlinks, at least optionally (for reason described below).

For the moment the primary way that skills are being distributed is in Git repositories that wind up getting cloned to the local machine so you can periodically do a “pull” to get the freshest version of the skill. This means that the ideal way to expose a skill is to symlink to its position in some repository on your local machine (e.g. you put symlinks at ~/.cursor/skills/ that point to various repositories on your local machine). But because the chat agent is unable to see it via symbolic link, it must be hard copied into that location which means it becomes disconnected from the repository. Which means that it gets out of sync.

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Would love to see either symlink support, or a setting to add additional skill locations (like VS Code supports). Anything to make managing multiple skills from multiple locations easier to manage.