Specification feature · runtime
User-scoped Agent SkillsAgent Skills specification
Discover personal or global skills outside the current project.
Terminology basis: Agent Skills specification. Agent Skills specification
User-scoped Agent Skills: 3 supported, 1 partial, 0 unsupported, 27 unreviewed across 31 cataloged products.
Current evidence by product
Can my agent use User-scoped Agent Skills?
Read across for the answer. 4 of 31 current product columns have reviewed evidence; unreviewed does not mean unsupported.
Web
9 productsDesktop
13 productsCLI
9 productsDefinition and scope
What this capability means
Discover personal or global skills outside the current project.
Support is recorded only when exact, dated evidence covers this behavior.
Traceable compatibility
Assertion ledger
Documentation evidence only. No runtime conformance test is implied.
- Target
- current Claude Code skills documentation · dated-documentation
- Environment
- preview-enabled
- Observed
- 2026-08-28
- previewthe catalog's Claude Code Agent Skills core row remains qualified as beta
- Anthropic — Extend Claude with skillsdocumented · reviewed 2026-08-28
- Target
- current Cursor Agent Skills documentation · dated-documentation
- Environment
- local-default
- Observed
- 2026-08-28
- runtimelocal user-scope folders are read from the machine where Cursor Agent runs and are not copied to Cloud Agents, remote SSH sessions, or managed workers
- Cursor — Agent Skillsdocumented · reviewed 2026-08-28
- Target
- current Gemini CLI Agent Skills documentation · dated-documentation
- Environment
- local-default
- Observed
- 2026-08-28
No additional condition is recorded for this statement.
- Gemini CLI — Managing Agent Skillsdocumented · reviewed 2026-08-28
- Target
- current VS Code Agent Skills documentation · dated-documentation
- Environment
- local-default
- Observed
- 2026-08-28
No additional condition is recorded for this statement.
- Visual Studio Code — Use Agent Skillsdocumented · reviewed 2026-08-28
- 1. Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Claude Code discovers personal skills from `~/.claude/skills/` and makes them available across projects.
- 2. Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Cursor discovers user-level skills from `~/.agents/skills/`, `~/.cursor/skills/`, and compatible Claude or Codex directories on the machine where the agent runs.
- 3. Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Gemini CLI discovers user skills from `~/.gemini/skills/` and `~/.agents/skills/`, available across projects.
- 4. Evidence checked 2026-08-28: VS Code discovers personal skills from `~/.copilot/skills/`, `~/.claude/skills/`, and `~/.agents/skills/`.
No sourced issues are attached to this row.
- User-scoped Agent Skills reference spec
- Anthropic — Extend Claude with skills documented · Anthropic · reviewed 2026-08-28
- Cursor — Agent Skills documented · Cursor · reviewed 2026-08-28
- Gemini CLI — Managing Agent Skills documented · Google · reviewed 2026-08-28
- Visual Studio Code — Use Agent Skills documented · Microsoft · reviewed 2026-08-28
Found a wrong or incomplete result?
Name the exact product, describe what happened, add the date, and link public evidence when available. A community report starts a review. It does not change the support state by itself.