Manual setup

The installer is the fast path, but skills are just files on disk. Here's what it does and how to author your own.

Where skills live

Cursor auto-discovers skills from:

• Global: ~/.cursor/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
• Per project: .cursor/skills/<name>/SKILL.md

The installer clones our shared library into ~/.cursor/skills/abridge/, so all its skills are available in every project.

The install script

curl -fsSL https://cloud.abridge.services/install-skills.sh | bash

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

REPO="https://github.com/abridgeai/agent-skills.git"
DEST="$HOME/.cursor/skills/abridge"

mkdir -p "$(dirname "$DEST")"
if [ -d "$DEST/.git" ]; then
  git -C "$DEST" pull --ff-only --quiet
else
  git clone --depth 1 --quiet "$REPO" "$DEST"
fi

echo "✓ Skills installed to $DEST — reload Cursor."

Authoring a skill

A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md. The frontmatter's description is what the agent matches against, so make it specific:

---
name: scaffold-service
description: >
  Scaffold a new Abridge Cloud service — create content/services/<slug>/ with
  service.yaml, docs, and releases. Use when adding a service to the portal.
---

# Scaffold a service

1. Ask for the slug, title, category, and icon.
2. Create `content/services/<slug>/service.yaml` … (steps the agent follows)

Drop it in ~/.cursor/skills/<name>/, or open a PR against the skills repo to add it to this list for everyone.