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When to use Agent Skills
Decide when Agent Skills fits. Name the lesson detail that supports your choice before you act.
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By the end, 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. Check whether your skill runs end to end from the slash menu and reports back the way you asked. Confirm the skill folder is committed and a teammate can run it. Make sure your Council skill returns one merged answer, not several raw transcripts. Avoid reaching for a saved skill when a one-off prompt would do.
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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 at cursor.com/docs/skills
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