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Development Workflow Skills for Cursor

Skills that change how the agent works: planning, test-driven development, debugging, code review and git hygiene. Every listing below works with Cursor. Free GitHub projects and paid options are ranked together.

Updated October 2026 · 19 listings · stars refreshed daily from GitHub

How to add development workflow skills to Cursor

Skills follow the open Agent Skills format: a folder with a SKILL.md file. Copy the folder into the skills directory your app reads, then restart the session so the new description is picked up.

1

Superpowers 🧩 SkillFree

A skills library that makes coding agents plan, test-first and debug systematically

★ 294k · +2.7k this week

2

Matt Pocock's Skills 🧩 SkillOpen source

Small, composable engineering skills: grilling, TDD, specs, tickets and architecture review

★ 274k · +4.9k this week

8.4 Visit ↗
3

Agent Skills (Addy Osmani) 🧩 SkillOpen source

25 lifecycle skills and commands that make agents spec, test, review and ship with discipline

★ 100k · +1.4k this week

8.3 Visit ↗
4

Ponytail 🧩 SkillOpen source

Makes your coding agent write the minimum code a task needs, without cutting safety

★ 151k · +5.3k this week

8.0 Visit ↗
5

Understand Anything 🧩 SkillOpen source

Turns a codebase into an interactive knowledge graph with tours, search and Q&A

★ 85k · +858 this week

8.0 Visit ↗
6

Archify 🧩 SkillOpen source

Validated, interactive architecture, sequence and data-flow diagrams compiled from typed JSON

★ 76k · +4.5k this week

7.9 Visit ↗
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Caveman 🧩 SkillFree

Terse-output skill plus local proxy that trims the tokens coding agents write and read

★ 109k · +1.1k this week

7.7 Visit ↗
8

Skill Seekers 🧩 SkillOpen source

Turns docs sites, repos, PDFs and videos into Agent Skills and RAG-ready knowledge

★ 15k · +64 this week

7.7 Visit ↗
9

SpecStory 🧩 SkillFreemium

Saves AI coding sessions as local Markdown; Lore skill mines them into reusable skills

★ 1.3k · +6 this week

7.6 Visit ↗
10

Agent Rules Books 🧩 SkillOpen source

Agent rules and skills distilled from Clean Code, Refactoring, DDD and other classic books

★ 2.9k · +32 this week

7.3 Visit ↗
11

Pro Workflow 🧩 SkillOpen source

Self-correcting memory, research wikis and quality-gate hooks for Claude Code

★ 2.9k · +19 this week

7.1 Visit ↗
12

TeaQL Agent Kit 🧩 SkillOpen source

Agent Skill that inserts a validated domain model between requirements and code

★ 2.8k · +1 this week

7.0 Visit ↗
13

MEX 🧩 SkillOpen source

Team memory for engineers and their agents, kept in the repo and shared through Git

★ 1.7k · +17 this week

7.0 Visit ↗
14

Open Steps 🧩 SkillFree

Turns your coding agent's technical output into plain-language reports and next steps

★ 1.1k · +129 this week

7.0 Visit ↗
15

Skills Manager 🧩 SkillFree

Desktop app and CLI that keeps one skills library and symlinks it into 30+ AI coding tools

★ 1.0k · +12 this week

7.0 Visit ↗
16

I Have ADHD 🧩 SkillOpen source

Output skill that makes coding agents lead with the next action, not filler

★ 53k · +1.7k this week

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Agent Loop Skills 🧩 SkillOpen source

Verification-gated improvement loops as Agent Skills for ML, code, SQL, prompts and research

★ 173 · +1 this week

18

Advise Project Approach 🧩 SkillOpen source

Evidence-first project planning, course-correction and pre-ship review skill

★ 317 · +3 this week

19

Skill Flow 🧩 SkillOpen source

Install, manage and share Agent Skills across every major coding agent from one place

★ 260 · +-1 this week

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