Skills visible in Settings but not appearing as slash commands in Agent chat

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Project skills in .agents/skills/ are recognized and listed in Cursor Settings (Rules → Skills), but they never appear in the slash command menu when typing / in Agent chat. Only built-in commands (e.g. /plan, /ask, /fix) are shown.Project skills in .agents/skills/ are recognized and listed in Cursor Settings (Rules → Skills), but they never appear in the slash command menu when typing / in Agent chat. Only built-in commands (e.g. /plan, /ask, /fix) are shown.

Steps to Reproduce

Add skills in .agents/skills//SKILL.md with valid YAML frontmatter (name, description).
Open Cursor Settings → Rules and confirm the skills are listed.
Open Agent chat (Cmd+I).
Type / and look for the project skills in the autocomplete list.

Expected Behavior

Project skills should appear in the slash command menu (e.g. /expo-deployment, /building-native-ui) alongside built-in commands, as described in the docs: “Type / followed by the skill name in chat to run it.”

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

OS: macOS (fresh install)
Cursor: Clean install
Skill locations tested: .agents/skills/ (project-level)

Cursor version:
Version: 2.6.18
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 68fbec5aed9da587d1c6a64172792f505bafa250
Date: 2026-03-10T02:01:17.430Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.6.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.3.0

Additional Information

This issue occurs for both project level skills and globally installed skills.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the report. Quick clarification first: /plan, /ask, and /fix aren’t actually slash commands in Cursor. Those are mode selectors in the dropdown at the top of the chat panel. The slash menu that shows up when you type / should show different items, like skills, /reset, /summarize, etc.

Could you share a screenshot of what you see when you type / in Agent chat? That’ll help confirm if the slash menu is loading correctly but just missing your skills, or if you might be looking at a different UI element.

Also worth double-checking:

  • You’re typing / in Agent chat Cmd+L, not inline edit Cmd+K
  • Your SKILL.md files have the name field matching the parent folder name exactly (lowercase, hyphens only)

Let me know and we’ll go from there.

5

So I would be installing skills, and this in the image wouldnt appear. I just updated to Version: 2.6.19 and they magically work again as you can see in the screen shot. Must’ve been a bug with that specific version I was using before maybe?

Screenshot 2026-03-12 at 10.15.02 PM
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Glad to hear updating to 2.6.19 fixed it! Looks like it was a bug in 2.6.18 that got resolved in the newer version. From your screenshot, I can see skills are now showing up correctly in the slash menu.

I’m going to mark this as resolved. If anything breaks again, feel free to open a new thread.