Skills not showing: Does anyone else having to keep restarting the desktop app or open a new repo to get their skills and commands to show? I often just get the inbuild ones until i do this and its pretty annoying

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Skills not showing: Does anyone else having to keep restarting the desktop app or open a new repo to get their skills and commands to show? I often just get the inbuild ones but not my ones until i do this and its pretty annoying.

Steps to Reproduce

I am not sure what is triggering it.

Expected Behavior

My skills and commands are supposed to show after “/”

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 3.4.17
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 93e603f703cd553a6bb3644711a3379bbbb31180
Date: 2026-05-13T21:39:55.724Z
Layout: glass
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.4.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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This is a known bug with the slash menu in Glass. Custom skills and commands can intermittently drop out of the / menu and stay missing until you restart. Our team has identified the root cause and a fix is actively being tested.

In the meantime, two faster workarounds than a full restart:

  1. Developer: Reload Window (Cmd+Shift+P → type “Reload Window”) — reloads the window without fully quitting Cursor

  2. Start a new chat — the commands sometimes reappear in a fresh chat within the same window

You may also find this related thread helpful, where we’ve been tracking the same class of issue: Slash command suggestions disappear after conversation starts

Worth noting: even when the commands aren’t visible in the menu, typing the full command name (e.g. /your-command-name) often still works.

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Btw, It’s really helpful to know that I can still write he command and it works. I know these commands from memory so it’s not a big deal to not have the autocomplete. I recommend you say that first for anyone that has the issue.