Skill profile
/create-skill
Cursor's built-in skill for writing a new skill, the recommended starting point over hand-authoring frontmatter.
What it actually does
- Writes a new Cursor skill for you — the documented starting point over hand-authoring frontmatter.
When to use it — and when not to
Use it when
- Authoring a single new skill for Cursor.
Not for
- You're building a full plugin — multiple skills plus agents, rules, and commands together — `create-plugin` scaffolds at that larger scope.
Agent compatibility
- Cursor
Confirmed means the skill’s own source or vendor states it works with that agent. Portable means it only reaches that agent through the shared SKILL.md format and a directory convention — real, but a weaker claim. An agent with no entry here isn’t known to be unsupported; it simply isn’t documented either way, so nothing is claimed. Full model on Agent Skills Compatibility.
Related skills
- create-pluginSame job at a different scope — this writes one skill; create-plugin scaffolds a whole marketplace-ready plugin (skills, agents, rules, commands together).
Evidence and provenance
Maintained by Cursor (official). Primary source: Cursor — Agent Skills (official docs), last checked against this page’s claims on . This page summarizes and analyzes that source — it isn’t a copy of its SKILL.md or README, and installation happens at the source, not here.
Also covered in The Best Cursor Skills, part of the Cursor guide.