Turn personal habits into agent-ready skills
A Skill is valuable when someone else, or another agent, can actually reuse it.
A good Skill answers five questions
- When should this be used?
- What inputs are required?
- Which steps should run?
- What should the output look like?
- Where should failure stop, and who takes over?
Why Cursor habits transfer well
If you already know how to assign work to an IDE assistant, you already have half the Skill mindset:
- scoped work
- explicit goals
- validation expectations
What remains is packaging that pattern so someone else can reuse it reliably.
The real test
If a teammate or another agent can run it from the written instructions, it has graduated to the Skill layer.