In a Cursor workspace containing multiple repositories, if two or more repositories define a skill with the same name, the skill does not appear in chat. When attempting to invoke it via /skill_name, it is missing from the list of available suggestions.
Steps to Reproduce
Create two repositories, each containing a skill with the same name (for example, my_skill).
Create a Cursor workspace that includes both repositories.
Open the Cursor chat.
Type /my_skill in the chat input.
Observe the autocomplete suggestions.
The skill does not appear in the autocomplete suggestions and cannot be invoked via /my_skill.
Expected Behavior
The skill should appear in the list of available slash commands, or Cursor should provide a way to disambiguate between skills with the same name.
This is a confirmed bug in how skills are resolved across folders in a multi-root workspace.
Workaround: Rename your skill folders to be unique across repos. For example, if both repos have .cursor/skills/pr-fix-comments/SKILL.md, rename one to .cursor/skills/repo2-pr-fix-comments/SKILL.md. The / autocomplete key is derived from the folder name, so unique folder names will resolve the conflict.
This is something we’ve seen before - I’ll flag it for another look from the team. The expected behavior (as you noted) would be for Cursor to either show both with disambiguation or provide a way to select between them.
When multiple plugins are installed, Cursor currently strips the plugin prefix and shows only the skill name (e.g. /review). This causes collision when two different plugins share the same skill name — both appear as /review with no way to tell them apart.
Claude Code and Codex handle this correctly by displaying the full namespace: /story:review, /entire:review, etc.
Request: adopt the plugin:skill prefix convention in the slash command menu to match the behavior of other agents and eliminate ambiguity.
Just want to add my request for this - i have users migrating to Claude because of this one issue. (We have a large set of AI-DLC related skills and multiple plugins … so having to figure out which “review” skill to use is impossible
