Third party skills disappearing

[wakeupmh (Marcos Henrique)]

Describe the Bug

Basically, I’m installing new skills using Vercel skills.sh and showing them once to be used. After closing and reopening Cursor, the skills aren’t available to be used

Steps to Reproduce

Install a skill, then close and reopen your cursor. The skill is not there.

Expected Behavior

skills working fine

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 2.4.21 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: dc8361355d709f306d5159635a677a571b277bc0
Date: 2026-01-22T16:57:59.675Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Nightly
Electron: 39.2.7
Chromium: 142.0.7444.235
Node.js: 22.21.1
V8: 14.2.231.21-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.2.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[deanrie]

Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue: Cursor doesn’t follow symlinks when indexing skills yet. The bug is logged and the team is aware.

skills.sh creates symlinks, but Cursor doesn’t see them.

Based on reports from other users, symlinks in the project .cursor/skills should work in v2.4.21, but symlinks in the home directory don’t.

Related report: Cursor doesn't follow symlinks to discover skills