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Cursor skill discovery now includes ~/.cursor/skills-cursor as system skills, after project and user roots. Existing CLI visibility filtering applies; discovery only reads this directory.

Original description by @paynoattn

Cursor's built-in skills were missing from the composer because discovery did not scan the directory where Cursor stores them. Discovery now includes ~/.cursor/skills-cursor with system scope.

The new root is scanned last, so project and user skills retain precedence. The existing visibility filter continues to exclude IDE-only skills, and shared clients use the existing System badge and skill-mention handling. No other provider changes.

All eight Cursor skill tests pass, including built-in discovery, override precedence, and IDE-only filtering. Removing the root or moving it ahead of the existing roots fails the regression. Scoped lint and the provider-cursor typecheck pass. After merging current main, all eight tests and the provider typecheck pass at 936ba6d. Both changed files are unchanged by that merge, and fresh independent Opus and Sol reviews found no actionable defects. A live Cursor CLI/composer session was not rerun during this takeover.

Original fix by @paynoattn in #18673. Maintainer takeover by Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.1 through T3 Code, independently reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1-Sol through the Codex harness.

Takeover

Credit to @paynoattn for #18673.
Rebuilt on current main on an origin branch, preserving the original discovery approach and trimming its comment. Extended one existing discovery test; no extra test cases or scratch files added.

Evidence

Fixture matrix · Evidence index · Reproduction scripts and labelled fixtures

Before: 3cc31ed27c. After: dc550f5935.

Fixture / observable behavior	Before real-server RPC	After real-server RPC
CLI and unrestricted built-ins	Absent	Enabled, system scope
IDE-only built-in	Absent	Absent
Project/user/built-in collision	Project wins	Project wins
User/built-in collision	User wins	User wins
Missing built-in root	Existing skills work	Existing skills work
Read-only fixture manifest	Unchanged during scan	Unchanged during scan
Workspace snapshot	Existing project/user skills	Adds eligible system skills

Before RPC transcript · After RPC transcript

No-cwd scanner probe: before · after. Omitting cwd from the RPC only refreshes machine state.

Environment: Linux x86_64, Node v26.12.1, real dev server, synthetic temporary HOME and fresh explicit T3 home; --no-seed and T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0. Real user Cursor and T3 data untouched. No render code changed; viewport/theme captures do not apply. What else changed: no additional behavior observed in the captured skill lists.

Verification log

• Tests: five before → five after in packages/provider-cursor/src/server/skills.test.ts; one extended discovery test. Regression fails on main (missing system skill); all five pass with fix.
• Focused tests, targeted lint/format, and provider-cursor typecheck pass. Existing Effect suggestions remain outside changed files.
• Independent review round 1: GPT-6.1-sol MERGE; Claude Opus 5.5 MERGE. No confirmed findings; no sensitive-surface changes or new regex/parser/loop.
• Proof audit pass 2: SUFFICIENT; independent replay matches all six RPC records.
• Final head: d68546fa81, after merging main. Scoped tests pass again. Cursor provider, server, contracts and provider-core are unchanged from captured head; the PR diff still contains only the two intended files.
• CI: pending on the replacement head. No PR merge performed.
• Unverified: optional composer/browser, desktop/mobile visuals; real installed Cursor distribution; provider turns and remote/relay/tunnel transports; unreadable/oversized/budget-exhausted built-in runtime cases. Server surface verified by real RPC transcripts; no changed render surfaces.
• Models: Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude harness for tests/implementation/review; GPT-6.1-sol via Codex harness for lead/review/evidence/audits, in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at d68546f

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This focused fix adds Cursor’s existing built-in skills to composer discovery while preserving project and user precedence. The runtime change is confined to the existing skill scan and is covered by targeted tests, with no schema, deployment, or configuration-default changes.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	−7 B (−0.1%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	−7 B (−0.6%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.9 KiB	20.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	−7 B (−0.1%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	−7 B (−0.6%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.2 KiB	21.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 7fd2e09 · PR result: d68546f · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Walkthrough

Cursor skill discovery now scans ~/.cursor/skills-cursor as a system-scope root after project and user roots. Tests cover discovery of a built-in skill and its system scope.

Changes: Cursor skill discovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
System-scope discovery and precedence packages/provider-cursor/src/server/skills.ts, packages/provider-cursor/src/server/skills.test.ts	Discovery accepts the system scope and scans ~/.cursor/skills-cursor after project and user roots. The test expects the built-in loop skill to be returned with system scope, enabled status, and its description.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: scottn-pv, macroscopeapp

Merge Risk: Low · up to d6854

Runtime behavior is correct, but a small test update is recommended to protect the new precedence contract from regression.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: discovering Cursor built-in skills in the composer. It uses an appropriate conventional commit format.
Description check		The description explains the problem, implementation, scope, precedence behavior, verification results, evidence, and known unverified scenarios. It does not use the template headings exactly, but it …
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The description explains the problem, implementation, scope, precedence behavior, verification results, evidence, and known unverified scenarios. It does not use the template headings exactly, but it provides the required information and is sufficiently complete for this focused fix.

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packages/provider-cursor/src/server/skills.test.ts: 1

66-75: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a user/system name collision to the precedence fixture.

The project review fixture masks both the user and built-in review fixtures. The unique loop fixture only checks built-in discovery. Add a skill with the same name in the user and built-in roots, then assert that the user fixture wins.

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         yield* writeSkill(
           path.join(userHome, ".cursor", "skills"),
           "review",
           "---\ndescription: user review\n---\n",
         );
+        yield* writeSkill(
+          path.join(userHome, ".cursor", "skills"),
+          "user-over-system",
+          "---\ndescription: user override\n---\n",
+        );
...
         const builtinRoot = path.join(userHome, ".cursor", "skills-cursor");
         yield* writeSkill(builtinRoot, "loop", "---\ndescription: builtin loop\n---\n");
+        yield* writeSkill(
+          builtinRoot,
+          "user-over-system",
+          "---\ndescription: builtin fallback\n---\n",
+        );
...
           {
             name: "review",
             displayName: "Review changes",
             description: "project review",
             path: path.join(workspace, ".agents", "skills", "nested", "review", "SKILL.md"),
             scope: "project",
             enabled: true,
           },
+          {
+            name: "user-over-system",
+            description: "user override",
+            path: path.join(
+              userHome,
+              ".cursor",
+              "skills",
+              "user-over-system",
+              "SKILL.md",
+            ),
+            scope: "user",
+            enabled: true,
+          },

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Review comment at @packages/provider-cursor/src/server/skills.test.ts around
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Update the precedence fixture in the skills discovery test to add a skill with
the same name but distinct descriptions in the user and built-in roots. Assert
the discovered result uses the user skill’s description, path, and user scope,
confirming it takes precedence over the built-in duplicate.

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Review comments at @packages/provider-cursor/src/server/skills.test.ts:
- Around line 66-75: Update the precedence fixture in the skills discovery test
to add a skill with the same name but distinct descriptions in the user and
built-in roots. Assert the discovered result uses the user skill’s description,
path, and user scope, confirming it takes precedence over the built-in
duplicate.

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