1 min lesson
The right surface: Agent Skills
Choose the best answer to "When should you reach for Agent Skills?" Then say what led you there.
Step 1 of 3
Done means you can create a slash-triggered skill and run a Council fan-out from the slash menu.
Use Agent SkillsReusable, model-invoked instructions (a SKILL.md with a name, description and steps) the agent loads only when its description matches the task. Press Enter for the full definition. when you keep retyping the same multi-step prompt, such as run tests, fix CI or open a PR. Keep the boundary narrow.
Where this fits
- Entry point
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.cursor/skills/directory in your repo and the slash menu - Source
- Cursor field-engineering sessions on slash workflows and the Council pattern, updated for the Agent SkillsReusable, model-invoked instructions (a SKILL.md with a name, description and steps) the agent loads only when its description matches the task. Press Enter for the full definition. migration (cursor.com/docs/skills)
Use the source as the product reference.