Cursor skills

Skills are self-contained SKILL.md files that extend the Cursor agent with domain knowledge and step-by-step instructions for a specific task. Each skill has a short description at the top; the agent decides on its own when a skill is relevant to the current request, reads the file, and follows it. Unlike rules (which are always/conditionally injected), skills are loaded just in time — they don't pollute context until they're useful.

The typical shape is: description → when to use → when not to use → step-by-step guide → examples. Skills live in .claude/skills/, ~/.cursor/skills/, or <workspace>/.cursor/skills/<name>/SKILL.md. They're great for "recipes I reuse" — bootstrapping an SEO setup, running a product-discovery pass, creating a new Cursor hook — where rules would be overkill but the task always follows the same shape.