Cursor doesn't follow symlinks to discover skills

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 skills you use (these are the ones in my case)

npx --yes skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills --all --global --yes
npx --yes skills add BusiRocket/agents-skills --all --global --yes

And it’s working for now:

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