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 [Screenshot 2026-01-27 at 12.09.39 AM.png] [Screenshot 2026-01-27 at 12.09.19 AM] …

Hey there! Thanks for sharing this. This is a known issue. [image] Cursor doesn't follow symlinks to discover skills Bug Reports 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…

@Colin when that would be resolved?

Global symlinked skills are not discovered by cursor

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Colin (Colin) February 10, 2026, 8:00pm 6

This will be fixed in 2.5, which is just around the corner! Thanks for your patience on this one.

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Global symlinked skills are not discovered by cursor

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