Cursor CLI not loading skills from claude folder

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor CLI

Describe the Bug

According to the docs Cursor also reads skills from the .claude/skills folder. It does using Cursor IDE but not when using the Cursor CLI

Steps to Reproduce

Place skills in ./claude/skills and use the /skills command in the CLI: skills are not loaded

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Cursor CLI 2026.03.11-6dfa30c

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

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@deanrie , @Colin I think my issue is not the same as this one, so are you sure it should be merged? Because the original issue is fixed but mine is not.

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Not super sure how they got merged @Expecho! Sorry about that.

I’ve checked on Mac/Windows with Cursor CLI 2026.03.11-6dfa30c, and the agent picks up skills in .claude/skills as expected!

How are you verifying whether or not the skills have loaded?

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@Colin I run the /skills in the cursor cli. I have checked the working again and I noticed something strange: in one project it loads the skills correctly and in another project it does not.

Then I copied the whole .claude\skills folder from the working project to an empty folder and fired up the cli and it did not load the skills.

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When I explicitly tell cursor to use the skill it eventually finds it when traversing all the files in the folder but it does not look at .claude\skills by default:

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Thanks @Expecho! I can reproduce, and it looks like this was reported again a few days ago. @mohitjain covers it pretty well.

Added your report to that bug ticket.

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Hey @Expecho!

Should be fixed in the next CLI release. :ok_hand: Thanks for the feedback!