Excel
Use this skill when a user requests to create, modify, analyze, visualize, or work with spreadsheet files (`.xlsx`, `.xls`, `.csv`, `.tsv`) with formulas, formatting, charts, tables, and recalculation.
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Skills
Reusable agent capability bundles — drop a SKILL.md into your AI assistant to extend its behaviour.
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PowerPoint
Create, edit, render, verify, and export PowerPoint slide decks. Use when Codex needs to build or modify a deck, presentation deck, slide deck, slides, PowerPoint, PPT, or visually ambitious editable .pptx file.
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automate
Use this skill to create Cursor Automations.
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babysit
Keep a PR merge-ready by triaging comments, resolving clear conflicts, and fixing CI in a loop.
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canvas
A Cursor Canvas is a live React app that the user can open beside the chat. You MUST use a canvas when the agent produces a standalone analytical artifact — quantitative analyses, billing investigations, security audits, architecture reviews, data-heavy content, timelines, charts, tables, interactive explorations, repeatable tools, or any response that benefits from visual layout. Especially prefer a canvas when presenting results from MCP tools (Datadog, Databricks, Linear, Sentry, Slack, etc.) where the data is the deliverable — render it in a rich canvas rather than dumping it into a markdown table or code block. If you catch yourself about to write a markdown table, stop and use a canvas instead. You MUST also read this skill whenever you create, edit, or debug any .canvas.tsx file.
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create-hook
Create Cursor hooks. Use when you want to create a hook, write hooks.json, add hook scripts, or automate behavior around agent events.
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create-rule
Create Cursor rules for persistent AI guidance. Use when you want to create a rule, add coding standards, set up project conventions, configure file-specific patterns, create RULE.md files, or asks about .cursor/rules/ or AGENTS.md.
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create-skill
Create Cursor Agent Skills. Use when authoring a new skill or asking about SKILL.md structure.
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create-subagent
Create custom subagents for specialized AI tasks. Use when you want to create a new type of subagent, set up task-specific agents, configure code reviewers, debuggers, or domain-specific assistants with custom prompts.
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gitnexus-cli
Use when the user needs to run GitNexus CLI commands like analyze/index a repo, check status, clean the index, generate a wiki, or list indexed repos. Examples: "Index this repo", "Reanalyze the codebase", "Generate a wiki"
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gitnexus-debugging
Use when the user is debugging a bug, tracing an error, or asking why something fails. Examples: "Why is X failing?", "Where does this error come from?", "Trace this bug"
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gitnexus-exploring
Use when the user asks how code works, wants to understand architecture, trace execution flows, or explore unfamiliar parts of the codebase. Examples: "How does X work?", "What calls this function?", "Show me the auth flow"
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gitnexus-guide
Use when the user asks about GitNexus itself — available tools, how to query the knowledge graph, MCP resources, graph schema, or workflow reference. Examples: "What GitNexus tools are available?", "How do I use GitNexus?"
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gitnexus-impact-analysis
Use when the user wants to know what will break if they change something, or needs safety analysis before editing code. Examples: "Is it safe to change X?", "What depends on this?", "What will break?"
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gitnexus-pr-review
Use when the user wants to review a pull request, understand what a PR changes, assess risk of merging, or check for missing test coverage. Examples: "Review this PR", "What does PR #42 change?", "Is this PR safe to merge?"
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gitnexus-refactoring
Use when the user wants to rename, extract, split, move, or restructure code safely. Examples: "Rename this function", "Extract this into a module", "Refactor this class", "Move this to a separate file"
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imagegen
Generate or edit raster images when the task benefits from AI-created bitmap visuals such as photos, illustrations, textures, sprites, mockups, or transparent-background cutouts. Use when Codex should create a brand-new image, transform an existing image, or derive visual variants from references, and the output should be a bitmap asset rather than repo-native code or vector. Do not use when the task is better handled by editing existing SVG/vector/code-native assets, extending an established icon or logo system, or building the visual directly in HTML/CSS/canvas.
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loop
Run a prompt or skill in this session on a recurring or variable interval (e.g. /loop 5m /foo).
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migrate-to-skills
Convert 'Applied intelligently' Cursor rules (.cursor/rules/*.mdc) and slash commands (.cursor/commands/*.md) to Agent Skills format (.cursor/skills/). Use when you want to migrate rules or commands to skills, convert .mdc rules to SKILL.md format, or consolidate commands into the skills directory.
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onboard
Use /onboard for a focused Cursor onboarding flow that learns basic preferences, picks a first goal, and routes the user to the right next action.
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openai-docs
Use when the user asks how to build with OpenAI products or APIs, asks about Codex itself or choosing Codex surfaces, needs up-to-date official documentation with citations, help choosing the latest model for a use case, or model upgrade and prompt-upgrade guidance; use OpenAI docs MCP tools for non-Codex docs questions, use the Codex manual helper first for broad Codex self-knowledge, and restrict fallback browsing to official OpenAI domains.
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openspec-apply-change
Implement tasks from an OpenSpec change. Use when the user wants to start implementing, continue implementation, or work through tasks.
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openspec-archive-change
Archive a completed change in the experimental workflow. Use when the user wants to finalize and archive a change after implementation is complete.
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openspec-explore
Enter explore mode - a thinking partner for exploring ideas, investigating problems, and clarifying requirements. Use when the user wants to think through something before or during a change.
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openspec-propose
Propose a new change with all artifacts generated in one step. Use when the user wants to quickly describe what they want to build and get a complete proposal with design, specs, and tasks ready for implementation.
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plugin-creator
Create and scaffold plugin directories for Codex with a required `.codex-plugin/plugin.json`, optional plugin folders/files, valid manifest defaults, and personal-marketplace entries by default. Use when Codex needs to create a new personal plugin, add optional plugin structure, generate or update marketplace entries for plugin ordering and availability metadata, or update an existing local plugin during development with the CLI-driven cachebuster and reinstall flow.
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review
Review code changes with the Bugbot or Security Review subagent.
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review-bugbot
Review code changes with Bugbot subagent.
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review-security
Review code changes with Security Review subagent.
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sdk
Guide users building apps, scripts, CI pipelines, or automations on top of the Cursor SDK - TypeScript (`@cursor/sdk`) or Python (`cursor-sdk` / `cursor_sdk`). Use when the user mentions integrating, installing, or writing code against the Cursor SDK; says `Agent.create`, `Agent.prompt`, `Agent.resume`, `agent.send`, `run.stream`, `run.messages`, `CursorAgentError`, `@cursor/sdk`, `cursor-sdk`, or `cursor_sdk`; asks to run Cursor agents programmatically from a script, CI/CD pipeline, GitHub Action, backend service, or other code outside the Cursor IDE; wants to pick between local and cloud runtime, configure MCP servers for an SDK agent, or handle streaming, cancellation, or errors; or is wiring Cursor into an automation, bot, or REST `/v1/agents` migration. Use eagerly rather than answering from memory; the SDK surface evolves and this skill is the source of truth for the external packages.
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shell
Runs the rest of a /shell request as a literal shell command. Use only when the user explicitly invokes /shell and wants the following text executed directly in the terminal.
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skill-creator
Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Codex's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.
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skill-installer
Install Codex skills into $CODEX_HOME/skills from a curated list or a GitHub repo path. Use when a user asks to list installable skills, install a curated skill, or install a skill from another repo (including private repos).
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split-to-prs
Split current work into small reviewable PRs. Use when the user asks to split a chat, set of changes, branch, or PR.
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statusline
Configure a custom status line in the CLI. Use when the user mentions status line, statusline, statusLine, CLI status bar, prompt footer customization, or wants to add session context above the prompt.
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update-cli-config
View and modify Cursor CLI configuration settings in ~/.cursor/cli-config.json. Use when the user wants to change CLI settings, configure permissions, switch approval mode, enable vim mode, toggle display options, configure sandbox, or manage any CLI preferences.
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update-cursor-settings
Modify Cursor/VSCode user settings in settings.json. Use when you want to change editor settings, preferences, configuration, themes, font size, tab size, format on save, auto save, keybindings, or any settings.json values.
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