/skills

Browses available skills; individual skills can also be invoked directly via /skill-name.

/skills provides a browsing menu for available skills, including curated built-in skills. Individual skills can also be invoked inline directly via /skill-name. Skills are discovered in, among others, .cursor/skills as well as .claude/skills, .agents/skills, and .codex/skills, including nested in subdirectories. Documented in the official changelog, not (yet) listed in the command reference table.

✅ WHEN TO USE IT?

Discover available skills in an unfamiliar project

/skills — browse which skills are defined in the repo

Invoke a known skill directly

/skill-name — directly instead of via the browsing menu

⛔ WHEN NOT TO?

A skill should be available to the model but not show up in autocomplete

/skills and /skill-name show all user-invocable skills.

Better: Set user-invocable: false in the skill's SKILL.md frontmatter

It's about your own custom commands, not skills

/skills shows skills, not self-defined custom commands.

Better: Use /commands

SOURCES

Cursor Docs — Changelog ↗ cursor.com