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Awesome Cursor Skills Awesome

A curated list of awesome skills for Cursor, the AI code editor.

Skills are reusable SKILL.md instruction files that teach the AI agent how to perform specific tasks — from setting up analytics to scaffolding entire projects. In cursor, they live in .cursor/skills/ (personal) or project directories and are automatically discovered by the agent.

Contents

Skills

Ready-to-use SKILL.md files you can copy into your .cursor/skills/ directory. Each one teaches the agent a specific engineering workflow.

Cursor-Native

Skills that harness Cursor's unique agent capabilities — things only an AI inside Cursor can do.

  • suggesting-cursor-rules - If you keep correcting the agent on the same convention, it suggests a .cursor/rules/ file to encode it permanently.
  • suggesting-cursor-hooks - If you keep asking the agent to run the same check (lint, types, tests), it suggests a .cursor/hooks.json hook to automate it.
  • switching-projects - Switch the active workspace to a different project using the cursor-app-control MCP, without opening a new window.
  • saving-workspace-context - Automatically persist research, decisions, and learnings to workspace files so knowledge survives across conversations.
  • visual-qa-testing - Open the app in Cursor's built-in browser, take screenshots, check console errors, and audit network requests after making changes.
  • verifying-in-browser - Start the dev server, open the app side-by-side with your code, and verify rendering, console, and network health.
  • profiling-performance - Profile CPU performance of a running app using Cursor's browser profiler to capture call stacks and identify slow functions.
  • screenshotting-changelog - Generate visual before/after PR descriptions by screenshotting UI changes across branches.
  • best-of-n-solving - Try multiple approaches to a hard problem in parallel using isolated git worktrees, then pick the best solution.
  • parallel-exploring - Explore a large codebase fast by launching multiple read-only subagents that investigate different areas simultaneously.
  • grinding-until-pass - Keep iterating autonomously — fix, run, check, repeat — until tests pass, the build succeeds, or linting is clean.
  • finding-dev-server-url - Scan running terminals for dev server URLs and ports, report what's running where, and open the app in Cursor's browser.
  • monitoring-terminal-errors - Watch a running process for crashes and stack traces, navigate to the failing file, and fix it automatically.
  • detecting-port-conflicts - Detect EADDRINUSE errors, find what's using the port, and resolve by killing the process or suggesting an alternative.
  • tailing-build-output - Monitor a build process for warnings and errors as they stream, fix issues before the build finishes.
  • responsive-testing - Open the app at multiple viewport sizes (mobile, tablet, desktop), screenshot each, and report layout breakage.
  • dark-mode-testing - Toggle between light and dark mode in the browser, screenshot both, and flag missing token mappings or contrast issues.
  • accessibility-auditing - Use the browser's aria tree to audit for missing labels, broken tab order, ARIA misuse, and contrast issues.
  • form-testing - Fill and submit every form with valid/invalid data using the browser, verifying validation, error states, and success flows.
  • parallel-test-fixing - When multiple tests fail, assign each to a separate subagent that fixes it independently in parallel.
  • codebase-onboarding - Launch parallel explore subagents to investigate architecture, data models, auth, APIs, and deployment — then synthesize an onboarding doc.
  • comparing-branches-visually - Run two branches on different ports, screenshot the same pages from each, and produce a visual diff for PRs.
  • auto-type-checking - Run tsc --noEmit after file edits to catch type errors immediately. Supports Cursor hooks for automation.
  • suggesting-skills - When you're struggling with a task a known skill handles, the agent suggests installing it.
  • parallel-ci-triage - Fetch failing GitHub Actions logs, assign each failing job to a parallel subagent, fix independently, then merge and re-run CI.
  • parallel-code-review - Run four read-only subagents in parallel — security, performance, correctness, readability — and merge into one review report.
  • network-request-auditing - Use the browser's network log to flag failed requests, slowness, duplicates, and risky payloads after real user interactions.
  • recording-browser-flow-as-test - Walk a flow in Cursor's browser, log each step, then emit a Playwright spec using role/name locators from the accessibility tree.
  • building-skills-from-patterns - Turn repeated multi-step workflows into a new SKILL.md under .cursor/skills/ so the agent can reuse them.

Analytics & Tracking

  • adding-analytics - Add PostHog event tracking, page views, feature flags, and session replay to any web app.
  • adding-feature-flags - Add feature flags for gradual rollouts and A/B testing using PostHog or a simple local implementation.
  • posthog-llm-analytics - Instrument LLM calls with token usage, latency, cost tracking, and model comparison.
  • posthog-migrations - Migrate from other analytics providers (Amplitude, Mixpanel, GA) to PostHog.

Error Tracking & Monitoring

Authentication & Payments

  • adding-auth - Add OAuth login, session management, and protected routes with Auth.js (NextAuth).
  • adding-stripe - Integrate Stripe checkout, subscriptions, webhooks, and customer portal.
  • authsome - Local credential broker for AI agents. Log in once via OAuth2 or API key, encrypted vault stores credentials, local proxy injects them at request time so Cursor's agent never sees raw secrets. 45 providers bundled including GitHub, Google, OpenAI, Linear, Slack, Notion, Resend, Stripe.

Testing

  • adding-e2e-tests - Set up Playwright with config, example tests, page objects, and CI integration.
  • writing-tests - Analyze existing code and write comprehensive unit and integration tests with proper mocking, edge cases, and assertions.
  • python-tdd-with-uv - Test-driven development in Python using uv — red-green-refactor cycle with vertical slicing and fast dependency management.
  • mattpocock-tdd - Vertical-slice TDD for AI agents — one test, one implementation, repeat. Prevents over-engineering and speculative tests.
  • anthropic-webapp-testing - Automated browser testing for web apps with screenshot verification and interaction flows.
  • api-smoke-testing - Discover API routes from the codebase, hit every endpoint, and report which ones return errors.

Workflow

  • babysitting-pr - Monitor an open PR for CI failures, review comments, and merge conflicts — then fix them automatically to keep the PR merge-ready.
  • creating-pr - Create clean, review-ready pull requests with conventional titles, structured descriptions, and linked issues.
  • writing-commit-messages - Write conventional commit messages with type prefixes, scopes, and meaningful descriptions.
  • incident-response - Handle production incidents — triage severity, mitigate, communicate status, and write blameless postmortems.
  • systematic-debugging - Structured debugging methodology — reproduce, isolate, hypothesize, and verify using git bisect, binary search, and logging.
  • chatcrystal - Local-first memory recall and writeback skills for AI coding sessions via ChatCrystal Core and MCP.

Infrastructure & DevOps

  • adding-docker - Dockerize any app with a multi-stage Dockerfile, docker-compose, and .dockerignore.
  • setting-up-ci - Set up a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline with linting, testing, type-checking, and deployment.
  • setting-up-terraform - Infrastructure-as-code with provider config, modules, remote state, and CI integration.
  • antonbabenko-terraform - Terraform and OpenTofu skill — testing, modules, CI/CD, and production patterns.
  • kubernetes-deploying - Deploy to Kubernetes — Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, health checks, and autoscaling.

Code Quality & Security

  • reviewing-code - Thorough code review focused on correctness, maintainability, performance, and best practices.
  • auditing-security - Systematic security audit checking for OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, secrets exposure, and insecure patterns.
  • auditing-performance - Audit bundle size, rendering, database queries, and Core Web Vitals.
  • sentry-code-simplifier - Refactor for clarity, consistency, and maintainability — eliminates dead code, fixes naming, and reduces complexity.
  • sentry-find-bugs - Scan local branch changes for bugs, security vulnerabilities, and code quality issues.
  • sentry-code-review - Code review following Sentry's engineering practices.
  • sentry-security-review - Security code review for injection, XSS, auth bypass, and IDOR vulnerabilities.
  • sentry-django-perf-review - Django-specific performance review — N+1 queries, select_related, caching, and serialization.
  • sentry-skill-scanner - Scan agent skills for security issues — prompt injection, exfiltration, and unsafe tool use.
  • verifying-markdown-formatting - Verify headings, lists, links, code blocks, spacing, and style consistency in Markdown files.
  • fixing-broken-links - Crawl all URLs in a file, test each for HTTP 200, and fix or replace any broken links.
  • HOL Guard - Security harness that intercepts tool calls in AI coding agents before files change or network is contacted.
  • penthera - Security scanner for web apps covering TLS, headers, auth hardening, secret scanning, IDOR/OAuth, and injection probes, with OWASP-mapped findings and SARIF output. Runs as a Cursor skill or CLI for authorized testing only.

Dependencies

  • updating-npm-package - Safely update an npm package: check npmjs.com for the latest version, read release notes, auto-apply minor updates, and for major updates find the migration guide and produce a detailed validation report.
  • dependabot-triage - Defensive Dependabot triage for JS/TS repos (npm, pnpm, yarn, bun) — picks the minimal patched version that supersets every CVE in the cluster, maps every import site into Public/API · Client-Bundle · Internal/Dev exposure buckets, enforces npm↔pnpm lockfile parity before opening the PR, and scrapes the changelog for BREAKING / DEPRECATED / MIGRATION keywords with a safety interlock. Standard and Fast-Track modes. Cross-agent (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI).

Frontend & UI

  • using-ui-stack - Enforce a design system (8px grid, color tokens, typography, dark mode, 5-state interactions) on every AI-generated component.
  • converting-css-to-tailwind - Convert plain CSS stylesheets to Tailwind utility classes — selectors, media queries, pseudo-classes, animations, and arbitrary values.
  • converting-css-modules-to-tailwind - Migrate CSS Modules to Tailwind — handles styles.xxx removal, composes, conditional classNames, SCSS features, and cleanup.
  • anthropic-frontend-design - Generate polished, production-ready frontend UI with consistent styling and responsive layouts.
  • shadcn-ui - Managing shadcn components — adding, searching, debugging, styling, and composing UI.
  • vercel-react-best-practices - 40+ rules for React/Next.js performance including eliminating request waterfalls and bundle optimization.
  • vercel-web-design-guidelines - UI code auditing for accessibility, UX, and performance compliance.
  • vercel-react-view-transitions - Implement the View Transitions API in React/Next.js for smooth page and component animations.
  • vercel-composition-patterns - Component composition, code splitting, and server/client boundary patterns for Next.js.
  • react-native-patterns - Build mobile apps with React Native and Expo — navigation, platform-specific code, performance, and native modules.

Planning & Architecture

  • mattpocock-prd-to-issues - Convert a product requirements doc into a set of well-scoped GitHub issues.
  • mattpocock-improve-architecture - Analyze a codebase and propose concrete architecture improvements.
  • mattpocock-grill-me - Challenge assumptions and push back on ideas before committing to an approach.
  • anthropic-mcp-builder - Build Model Context Protocol servers from scratch with tool definitions and transport setup.
  • architecture-decision-records - Document technical decisions as ADRs with context, options considered, and rationale.
  • database-design - Design database schemas — tables, relationships, indexes, constraints, and ORM setup.
  • @hanv89/azure-arch-skill - Draw Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric architecture diagrams in PlantUML with <img:URL> references to 840 first-party-MIT icons; per-vendor INDEX.md lets the agent grep by name/tag instead of guessing filenames. Install: npx @hanv89/azure-arch-skill@latest install --agent=cursor (per-project install into <cwd>/.cursor/rules/).

Documentation

  • adding-api-docs - Generate OpenAPI/Swagger documentation with interactive docs UI.
  • anthropic-doc-coauthoring - Structured workflow for co-authoring technical documentation with an AI agent.
  • anthropic-docx - Generate Word documents (DOCX) programmatically with formatting, tables, and images.
  • anthropic-pdf - Generate PDF documents with layouts, charts, and structured content.
  • anthropic-pptx - Create PowerPoint presentations with slides, layouts, and visual content.
  • anthropic-xlsx - Build Excel spreadsheets with formulas, charts, and data formatting.

Utilities

  • exporting-to-png - Export code snippets, diagrams, terminal output, or UI components to PNG images via headless browser or CLI tools.
  • generating-images - Generate or edit images (icons, logos, blog heroes, OG images, illustrations, mockups) using OpenAI gpt-image-2. Supports text-to-image, image-to-image, masked inpainting, and parallel batch jobs.
  • prompt-engineering - Write effective LLM prompts — system prompts, few-shot examples, chain-of-thought, and structured output.
  • seo-auditing - Audit technical SEO — meta tags, structured data, Open Graph, sitemaps, and Core Web Vitals.
  • seo-analysis - Full SEO audit using Search Console, URL inspection, PageSpeed, technical crawling, metadata checks, schema review, and a prioritized 30-day action plan.
  • writing-copy - Write marketing copy for landing pages, CTAs, emails, microcopy, and product descriptions.
  • concise - Chinese-first concise mode skill. Compresses Cursor agent replies on two layers (expression + content) with auto-relax for safety, multi-step, and parameter-heavy cases. Works across Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex CLI.

Plugins

Official Cursor marketplace plugins with bundled skills. Install via Cursor Settings > Plugins.

  • Figma - (generate-design, code-connect-components + 5 more) Design-to-code and design system management.
  • Linear - Issues, projects, documents, and sprints via MCP.
  • Slack - Channel search, messaging, and Slack actions via MCP.
  • Datadog - (datadog-mcp-setup) Query logs, metrics, traces, and dashboards.
  • Stripe - (stripe-best-practices, upgrade-stripe) Payment integration and SDK migration.
  • Firebase - (firebase-ai-logic, firebase-auth-basics + 9 more) Backend, auth, and AI infrastructure.
  • Shopify - (shopify-admin, shopify-custom-data + 14 more) GraphQL, Liquid, and extensions.
  • dbt Labs - (adding-dbt-unit-test, building-dbt-semantic-layer + 7 more) Data modeling and analytics engineering.
  • Sentry - (sentry-code-review, sentry-browser-sdk + 26 more) Error tracking and SDK integration.
  • Vercel - (ai-architect, deployment-expert, performance-optimizer + 25 more) Deploy and optimize web apps.
  • Svelte - (svelte-file-editor, svelte-code-writer + 2 more) Svelte 5 development and validation.
  • Elastic - (cloud-create-project, cloud-manage-project + 31 more) Elasticsearch and Observability.
  • Postman - (api-readiness-analyzer, postman-routing + 11 more) API lifecycle management.
  • Sanity - (content-modeling-best-practices, seo-aeo-best-practices + 6 more) CMS and content workflows.
  • Langfuse - (langfuse) LLM tracing, prompt management, and evaluation.
  • CockroachDB - (cockroachdb-sql-patterns, cockroachdb-app-patterns + 2 more) Distributed DB management.
  • Encore - (add-infrastructure, create-service + 20 more) TypeScript/Go backends with auto infrastructure.
  • AWS Amplify - (amplify-workflow) Full-stack apps with auth, data, and storage.
  • AWS Serverless - (aws-lambda, api-gateway + 2 more) Serverless application lifecycle.
  • Pendo - (account-health, feature-adoption + 2 more) Product analytics and session replays.
  • GitLab - (gitlab-ci-author, backlog-health + 7 more) Issues, MRs, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Sourcegraph - (searching-sourcegraph, sourcegraph-deepsearch) Code search across repos.
  • Miro - (miro-mcp, diagram + 4 more) Board context, diagrams, and code generation.
  • Cloudinary - (cloudinary-docs, cloudinary-transformations) Media management and optimization.
  • Appwrite - (appwrite-cli, appwrite-web + 8 more) BaaS with database, auth, and storage.
  • ClickUp - Task management, time tracking, and collaboration via MCP.
  • Box - (box) Content management, AI Q&A, and extraction.
  • Chargebee - (chargebee-integration) Billing operations and webhook handling.
  • Circle - (bridge-stablecoin, use-circle-wallets + 7 more) Stablecoin payments and smart contracts.
  • Runlayer - (mcp-builder, mcp-security-audit, plugin-builder) MCP security and governance.
  • Superpowers - (code-reviewer, brainstorming + 13 more) TDD, debugging, and collaboration.
  • Omni - (omni-content-builder, omni-ai-optimizer + 9 more) Analytics and dashboard creation.
  • Braintrust - AI evaluation, experiments, and evaluation logs via MCP.
  • Parallel - (parallel-web-search, parallel-deep-research + 2 more) Web search and data enrichment.
  • Tavily - (tavily-cli, tavily-extract + 4 more) Web search, crawling, and deep research.
  • Astronomer - (airflow, airflow-plugins + 19 more) Data engineering and Airflow integration.
  • Meta Reality Labs - (hz-immersive-designer, hz-new-project-creation + 11 more) Quest and Horizon OS development.
  • Plain - Support threads, customer management, and help center articles.
  • Turbopuffer - Vector and full-text search database integration.
  • Superpower Builder - Interview-driven meta-builder that turns recurring tasks into reusable SKILL.md files, routed by kind (workflow, discipline, content, subagent) with baseline-vs-with-skill pressure-testing on each generated skill. Ships 25 bundled superpowers covering dev (TDD, plan/execute) and non-dev (research, writing, decisions) work. Installs via Cursor plugin descriptor (.cursor-plugin/plugin.json).

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Cursor Rules

Cursor Rules (.cursorrules / .cursor/rules/) are complementary to skills — rules are always-on conventions, skills are on-demand workflows.

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