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Expert skills for Cursor

5,979+ specialist skills that drop straight into your .cursorrules or .cursor/rules directory. Go beyond basic rules — give Cursor deep expertise in any domain.

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Quick start

Install skills from the terminal

The SkillDB CLI works alongside Cursor. Search for skills, get exactly what you need, and Cursor loads them automatically.

terminal

$ npm install -g skilldb
+ skilldb@0.1.3

$ skilldb init
✓ Detected: Cursor (.cursorrules)
✓ Created .skilldb/ cache directory
✓ Updated .gitignore
✓ Added SkillDB integration to .cursorrules

$ skilldb search typescript patterns
Found 4 skills for "typescript patterns":
  typescript-patterns    software-skills
  type-safety           software-skills
  generics              typescript-skills
  utility-types         typescript-skills

$ skilldb get software-skills/typescript-patterns
✓ Saved TypeScript Patterns → .skilldb/skills/
  192 lines | Software | Technology

$ skilldb add react-patterns-skills
✓ Downloaded 12 skills from react-patterns-skills

Integration

Two ways to use with Cursor

SkillDB skills are plain markdown — compatible with both .cursorrules approaches.

.cursorrules

The classic single-file approach. SkillDB appends skill references to your existing .cursorrules file.

# .cursorrules

You are an expert developer...

## Skills (managed by SkillDB)
When working on tasks requiring specialist
knowledge, read the relevant skill from:
  .skilldb/skills/

Available skills:
- code-review (203 lines)
- react-performance (178 lines)
- typescript-patterns (192 lines)

.cursor/rules/

The directory approach for larger projects. Each skill becomes a separate rule file that Cursor loads contextually.

.cursor/
  rules/
    code-review.md
    react-patterns.md
    typescript.md
    security-audit.md

# Each file is a standalone skill
# Cursor loads them based on context

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