Bind specific skills to subagents

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Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

Currently it is possible to declare Cursor skills and subagents, but these are handled separately.
Request: Add “skills” field to frontmatter so we can expliciutely give certain agents specific skills. Claude Code already ha sit:

Rationale:

  • Modular management of multiple subagents with different skills.
  • My use cases:
  1. Unit test run. This can be performed by specific tets runner agent or separate unit test review agent
  2. Extracting logs from remote machine. I’ve got a setup with dedicated scripts that let agent deploy project to VPS and inspect logs on that VPS. I’d like to separate deployment process (Ansible) from log inspection (custom tool) and specific use cases (what to look for logs in one stack vs logs from a different stack).

Binding skills to subagents would make it trivially composable.

How Claude Code handles that: Create custom subagents - Claude Code Docs

Operating System (if it applies)

Windows 10/11

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The previous method involved specifying the skills’ paths and their usage in the agents’ configuration file, which the sub-agents would then use. While not as convenient as Claude Code, the fact that the agents’ contexts were always new made it relatively easy to adhere to the rules.

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