Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug I symlinked a skill folder to ~/.cursor/skills but the SKILL.md inside this directory is not discovered by Cursor. It’s possibly a similar bug that Codex CLI had recently: Allow symlinked Skill folders/files · Issue #8369 · op…

I can confirm that this is now indeed fixed in 2.5 :tada:

Hey @borekb ! Thanks for reporting this. This is a known issue on our side (and also affects Rules), and we have a ticket open for this already. I’ve linked your report to it.

I just tested a symlink from <repo-root>/.cursor/skills to <repo-root>/.codex/skills, and it seemed to work fine in v2.4.21. Does this issue only affect symlinks in the home directory skills folder?

The other reported issue was for home directory rules, so it sounds like that’s the case!

Describe the Bug Basically, I’m installing new skills using Vercel skills.sh and showing them once to be used. After closing and reopening Cursor, the skills aren’t available to be used Steps to Reproduce Install a skill, then close and reopen your cursor. The skill is not there. Expected Behavior …

It’s happening to me as well. [Captura de pantalla 2026-01-29 a las 8.32.48] [Captura de pantalla 2026-01-29 a las 8.32.28] Version: 2.4.22 (Universal) VSCode Version: 1.105.1 Commit: 618c607a249dd7fd2ffc662c6531143833bebd40 Date: 2026-01-26T22:51:47.692Z (2 days ago) Build Type: Stable Re…

Leaving this here in case someone is in the same situation — I got it working by doing the following (on macOS): 1) Set recursive write permissions chmod -R +r ~/.agents/skills 2) Remove all skills (be careful — back up first if you need to) npx skills remove --all -y -g 3) Reinstall the skil…

Thanks, this did the trick. Didn’t even need to restart Cursor. Version: 2.4.21 VSCode Version: 1.105.1 Commit: dc8361355d709f306d5159635a677a571b277bc0 OS: Linux x64 6.18.6-arch1-1

This is actually annoying because symlinks are crucial for my workflows

we experience same issue. this is a must be fixed bug for developers to be able use cursor properly as many rules/skills should be agnostic to the developed product version. please raise priority and solve ASAP. thanks

Cursor doesn't follow symlinks to discover skills

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Colin (Colin) February 6, 2026, 10:51pm 14

A fix is in the pipe! Waiting on a few things in order to be able to release, but it’s on the way.

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