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Agent Skills and How to Use Them

Guide · 2025-01-08 · 1 min read

What skills are and how to install them for Cursor and other agents.

  • agents
  • skills
  • cursor

Skills are reusable instruction sets that extend your coding agent (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) with specific knowledge and workflows.

Where to find them

  • skills.sh — Directory of skills. Browse by category and install with the CLI.
  • npx skills add — Install from a repo, e.g. npx skills add vercel-labs/next-skills --skill next-best-practices -a cursor.

What we use on db.fyi

  • next-best-practices (Vercel) — Next.js file conventions, RSC, data fetching.
  • vercel-react-best-practices — React patterns and composition.
  • seo, best-practices, performance (addyosmani/web-quality-skills) — SEO, security, and Core Web Vitals.

Install to your project so the agent follows these rules when editing. Commit the .agents/skills (or equivalent) directory so the team shares the same context.