Support for Claude Skills

Feature request for product/service

AI Models

Describe the request

It looks like Claude has a feature called “Skills” that allow different skills to be explicitly defined and injected into Claude. This is a very useful feature, and I am wondering if support for this could be added to Cursor, allowing us, when using Claude models, to define and use skills.

It seems that persona-based prompting (i.e. “You are a doing …” was never a big thing with Claude models, and I’ve been reading various reports from various source (i.e. Reddit, blogs, etc.) that persona prompting is becoming less and less effective (notably from some Reddit posts, the differences with and without a persona prompt were marginal at best). In some cases, imposing a persona produce worse results than not.

I mostly use the Claude models, then probably the Grok models, then maybe the GPT-5 models. So I don’t use GPT models all that much, which is where I think persona prompting works best. Claude’s Skills seem like a useful feature in general, and maybe there is a way to introduce something like this, to Cursor, in a more general sense to support models across the board?

Hey, thanks for the request. Cursor already has support for Agent Skills, and it’s compatible with the Claude Skills format.

But there’s an important detail: right now this feature isn’t quite ready for primetime. There’s no ETA yet.

Current status:

  • The feature is partly available in version 2.3.5+
  • It doesn’t work for everyone. It seems to only turn on if the ~/.claude/skills directory already exists
  • Some users are using Skills successfully

If you want to try it now:

  1. Update to version 2.3.x
  2. Create the ~/.claude/skills directory
  3. Restart Cursor
  4. Check Settings > Rules. You should see an Agent Skills section

Similar request: Support Claude Skills

Keep an eye on updates. The team is working on full support.

Relevant discussions:

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Thanks! Glad to hear you guys are working on this. It looks like I am on 2.3.x, so I’ll see if I can play with this a bit.

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When will you support the Claude Plugin?

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Wondering the same thing - Claude plugins are incredibly useful

It’s almost the end of February 2026. Are there any updates on the full support for Claude’s code skills yet?