# .agents/skills discovery

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/agents-skills-discovery/151764>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** skills\
**Created:** [February 13, 2026, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/agents-skills-discovery/151764 "2026-02-13T10:00:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![theio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/theio/32/60036_2.png) [@theio](https://forum.cursor.com/u/theio)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/agents-skills-discovery/151764/1 "2026-02-13T10:00:34Z")

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### Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

### Describe the request

Can we add automatic discovery for skills in .agents/skills? Codex, opencode and many other coding agents support that already.

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**Author:** ![wsmoak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/wsmoak/32/79599_2.png) [@wsmoak](https://forum.cursor.com/u/wsmoak)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/agents-skills-discovery/151764/3 "2026-02-15T19:21:57Z")

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Yes please. Cursor’s docs currently say it is looking in .codex/skills but that is not where Codex puts them.

> **[Where to save skills - Agent Skills](https://developers.openai.com/codex/skills/#where-to-save-skills)**
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> Use agent skills to extend Codex with task-specific capabilities. A skill packages instructions, resources, and optional scripts so Codex can follow a workflow reliably. You can share skills across teams or with the community. Skills build on the...

> **[Agent Skills | Cursor Docs](https://cursor.com/docs/context/skills)**
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> Extend AI agents with specialized capabilities using Agent Skills, an open standard for packaging reusable knowledge and scripts.

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**Author:** ![pseckar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/pseckar/32/99770_2.png) [@pseckar](https://forum.cursor.com/u/pseckar)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/agents-skills-discovery/151764/5 "2026-02-27T11:20:51Z")

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I believe this is not just a feature request, but more of a bug (or at least a documentation bug). Because when you visit official [Cursor docs for Skills](https://cursor.com/docs/context/skills#skill-directories), there is clearly stated that:

Skills are automatically loaded from these locations:

| Location | Scope |
| --- | --- |
| `.agents/skills/` | Project-level |
| `.cursor/skills/` | Project-level |
| `~/.cursor/skills/` | User-level (global) |

I tested it today with latest version (2.5.26) and it does not work, the skill is not discovered in the `.agents/skills` directory. When I change it to `.cursor/skills`, it works.

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**Author:** ![Zeng\_Chao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@Zeng\_Chao](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Zeng_Chao)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2026, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/agents-skills-discovery/151764/7 "2026-02-28T08:32:35Z")

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i have the same problem