Repository
cursor/plugins agent skills
- skills
- 99
- official
- 99
- GitHub stars
- 10k
GitHub description: “Cursor plugin specification and official plugins”
- Stars
- 10,457 (988 forks)
- Licence
- No licence
- Last push
- Oct 2026
- Created
- Jan 2026
Install all skills
npx skills add cursor/pluginsAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in cursor/plugins, ranked
Ranked by score. Sort bymost stars,trending,newest,recently updated
| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keeps a TSV decision log for long or unattended agent runs, one row per decision with what, why, evidence and result, so a reviewer can check the work later. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 2 | Digs into why code is shaped the way it is by checking git history, pull requests and connected tools in parallel, then reporting a cited read on the tradeoffs. | cursor/ | 10k | 9 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 3 | Starts three parallel reviewer subagents over the current conversation transcript, then turns their findings into concrete edits to existing skills. | cursor/ | 10k | 5 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 4 | Applies four layers of technical-writing rules to docs, RFCs, readmes, PR descriptions and commit messages so a tired engineer follows them on the first read. | cursor/ | 10k | 10 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 5 | Adds a second, stronger model that the main agent consults before major decisions, when stuck and before finishing, controlled by /advisor commands. | cursor/ | 10k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | yesterday |
| 6 | Prepare PRs for review by cleaning noisy history, improving PR descriptions, and adding reviewer guidance without changing code behavior. | cursor/ | 10k | 3 repos | ~569 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 7 | Guides an agent through turning a Figma node into production UI with the repo's own components, then checks the result visually before finishing. | cursor/ | 10k | — | ~961 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 8 | Run an extremely strict maintainability review for abstraction quality, giant files, and spaghetti-condition growth. | cursor/ | 10k | 14 repos | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 9 | Build or adapt a local browser/CDP harness to drive and inspect a web, IDE, or Electron UI. | cursor/ | 10k | 2 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 10 | Splits a large goal into a tree of parallel Cursor cloud agents, with planners, workers and verifiers coordinated by a script and reporting through structured handoffs. | cursor/ | 10k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 11 | Cut AI tells from any writing. An agent skill from cursor/plugins. | cursor/ | 10k | 17 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 12 | Sketches types, signatures and module boundaries with stub bodies before real code, compares at least two designs, then implements against the chosen sketch. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 13 | Generates a project-local skill that launches your app, exercises a feature the way a user would and captures evidence, for web, CLI, API or desktop projects. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 14 | Runs one read-only reviewer subagent per configured model against a diff to challenge a change, then synthesizes a single verdict without applying any fixes. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 15 | Finds what a code change could break outside its diff and proves the single fact that makes it safe by running real code instead of writing an explanation. | cursor/ | 10k | 9 repos | ~964 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 16 | Runs several parallel attempts at the same task, picks the strongest as a base, grafts the best ideas from the others into it, then verifies the merged result. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 17 | Designs a step-by-step playbook for large or unfamiliar work, runs it as a loop of hypotheses and measurements, and logs decisions so a human can review them later. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 18 | Audits a project's verification skill and its feature map against the source and the live app, then ships at most one pull request of proven corrections. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 19 | Fixes a bug with a failing regression test first when a cheap, focused test path exists, and falls back to the closest practical check when it does not. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~786 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 20 | Answers how-does-this-work and where-should-this-live questions by exploring the codebase with read-only subagents and writing an onboarding-depth explanation. | cursor/ | 10k | 6 repos | ~771 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 21 | Launches many parallel cloud workers on slices of a task or on the same brief, waits for them all, and returns one aggregated report. | cursor/ | 10k | 7 repos | ~738 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 22 | Explain a body of work plainly so a person actually understands it. | cursor/ | 10k | 9 repos | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 23 | Builds or refreshes a personal -mode skill that captures how you work, using patterns mined from your recent agent transcripts in the current workspace. | cursor/ | 10k | 6 repos | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 24 | Build or adapt a local harness to drive, inspect, and profile an interactive CLI or TUI without external services. | cursor/ | 10k | 1 repo | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 25 | TypeScript best practices. An agent skill from cursor/plugins. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~671 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 26 | Reconstruct your recent working context from your own chat history, live state, and the shared record (user reports, prior fixes, incidents), then hand back a tight current-state brief. | cursor/ | 10k | 7 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 27 | Spawn Comment Sicko, fix accepted findings, and offer encodings for claimed constraints. | cursor/ | 10k | 7 repos | ~640 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 28 | Apply when writing stateful logic, or when code branches a lot or repeats a shape assumption across files. | cursor/ | 10k | 9 repos | ~521 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 29 | Apply when wiring validation, error handling, or framework adapters. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~471 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 30 | Apply to any non-trivial work, not just bulk work: edits, migrations, analyses, checks. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~615 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 31 | Apply when you catch yourself writing the same instruction a second time, or notice a recurring correction. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~553 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 32 | Apply when reviewing or shaping code that's hard to trace. An agent skill from cursor/plugins. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~524 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 33 | Apply when designing types, reviewing a function signature, or writing code in any statically-typed language. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 34 | Generate an interactive PR review walkthrough as an HTML page. | cursor/ | 10k | 1 repo | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 35 | Apply when designing commands, lifecycle steps, or processing loops that run amid crashes, restarts, and retries. | cursor/ | 10k | 9 repos | ~348 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 36 | Apply when debugging. An agent skill from cursor/plugins. | cursor/ | 10k | 9 repos | ~312 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 37 | Apply when refactoring, evaluating diff size, or tempted to add abstractions, layers, or signal threading. | cursor/ | 10k | 9 repos | ~343 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 38 | Apply after completing a task, before declaring done. An agent skill from cursor/plugins. | cursor/ | 10k | 9 repos | ~343 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 39 | Apply to multi-step work (sweeps, migrations, runs of similar edits) and to how you stack commits and PRs. | cursor/ | 10k | 9 repos | ~427 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 40 | Apply when facing a novel UI interaction or architectural decision with no precedent in the codebase. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~288 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 41 | Apply when product, UX, or feature-scope tradeoffs come up. An agent skill from cursor/plugins. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~296 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 42 | Apply before writing logic: choosing core types and data structures, sequencing scaffold-vs-feature work, asking what concurrent actors share. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~383 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 43 | Apply when context is filling up: large outputs, long files, repeated reads, fan-out planning. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~235 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 44 | Apply when introducing a new internal API while old callers still exist. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~287 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 45 | Apply when tempted to ask 'should I do X?' on reversible work. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~293 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 46 | Apply during planned rewrites and migrations with explicit phase boundaries. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~270 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 47 | Apply when concurrent actors might write to the same file, branch, key, or state object. | cursor/ | 10k | 8 repos | ~392 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 48 | Vet a perf measurement (limiter, tuning, limits, errors, repeatability, relevance, and whether the work happened) before you report or act on it. | cursor/ | 10k | 3 repos | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in cursor/plugins?
Show Me Your Work Decision Log (official) from cursor/plugins ranks first of the 99 skills in cursor/plugins listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 10k GitHub stars, 8 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 1.6k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Code Design Rationale Investigator and Reflect on Session Learnings.
Are the skills in cursor/plugins official?
99 of the 99 skills in cursor/plugins are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Show Me Your Work Decision Log, Code Design Rationale Investigator, Reflect on Session Learnings, Technical Writing Standard, Advisor Mode and 94 more.
How do I install all skills from cursor/plugins?
Run npx skills add cursor/plugins in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.