Skills not shown in Cursor CLI while visible and working in desktop app

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Thanks for the screenshots, they really help. A few different things are happening at the same time, so let’s break it down:

  1. Skills from ~/.agents/skills/ (Minimax, Superpowers) look like plugin-installed skill packs. The CLI still has a parity gap vs the desktop app for registering plugin skills, and we’re aware of it. See Cursor-agent CLI does not register skills from plugins (IDE does — parity gap). There’s no ETA for a fix yet.

  2. ~/.cursor/skills/writing-skills/ is the standard location and the CLI should pick it up. To figure out why it’s not working, please check:

    • Is there a SKILL.md file inside writing-skills/?
    • Does it include YAML frontmatter with name and description fields?

    Please share the output of ls -la ~/.cursor/skills/writing-skills/ and the first lines of SKILL.md if it exists.

  3. The /skills slash command doesn’t show up in autocomplete, you only see /show-thinking. Please try:

    • Type /skills fully and press Enter, does it print anything?
    • Run agent --help and share the output so we can confirm which commands are registered.

Workaround for item 1 for now: you can copy or symlink the skill folders you need from ~/.agents/skills/... into ~/.cursor/skills/. That’s the standard location the CLI uses.