Global symlinked skills are not discovered by cursor

[da1z]

Describe the Bug

i have skills symlinked to ~/.cursor/skills and cursor can not discover the,

Steps to Reproduce

i added global skill using npx -y skills and chose symlink option

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 2.4.21 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: dc8361355d709f306d5159635a677a571b277bc0
Date: 2026-01-22T16:57:59.675Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.2.7
Chromium: 142.0.7444.235
Node.js: 22.21.1
V8: 14.2.231.21-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.2.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

[Colin]

Hey there!

Thanks for sharing this. This is a known issue.

Cursor doesn't follow symlinks to discover skills

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’ve attached your report to the internal bug ticket!

[Daniel_Neykov]

@Colin when that would be resolved?