Installing Skills

Cursor does not have a native marketplace for skills, so Gloria installs in Cursor as a local plugin instead. This how-to shows the setup that loads Gloria’s bundled skills without a separate copy step.

Skills are the versioned instructions your agent loads from the Skills Library; see Concepts for the shared model.

Install the skills in Cursor

  1. Run this command in a terminal. It clones or updates the Gloria source in Cursor’s plugin folders, creates the local plugin folder, and links the Gloria plugin into place.
  2. Restart Cursor, or reload your agent, so it picks up the plugin.
git -C ~/.cursor/plugins/sources/gloria pull || git clone https://github.com/sandgardenhq/gloria.git ~/.cursor/plugins/sources/gloria && mkdir -p ~/.cursor/plugins/local && ln -sf ~/.cursor/plugins/sources/gloria/plugins/gloria ~/.cursor/plugins/local/gloria

That setup leaves Gloria’s bundled skills in the plugin that Cursor reads.

Keep the skills current

Run the same command again whenever you want the latest local Gloria plugin. It updates the existing clone when it is present and refreshes the local link, so the same command works for both first time setup and later updates.

Verify

Ask your agent to use one of Gloria’s bundled skills after Cursor loads the plugin:

Ask your agent: “Use using-the-skills-library to help me find the right skill for this repo.”

Your agent should respond with the skill’s guidance and continue as expected.

Next

If you also need the Cursor MCP setup, see Getting Started (Cursor). For the broader skills model, see Skill Library.