Cursor CLI
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
Place skills in ./claude/skills and use the /skills command in the CLI: skills are not loaded
Windows 10/11
Cursor CLI 2026.03.11-6dfa30c
Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor
@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.
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?
@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.
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:
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.
Hey @Expecho!
Should be fixed in the next CLI release. 
Thanks for the feedback!
