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The best skills for Windsurf.
Windsurf keeps skills in its own folder. The skills CLI writes them to the right place for you.
- Project skills
- .windsurf/skills/
- Global skills
- ~/.codeium/windsurf/skills/
- skills CLI flag
- -a windsurf
How to install skills in Windsurf.
01
Install with the skills CLI
Pick Windsurf as the target.
npx skills add heydamir/unslop -a windsurf
Top skills for Windsurf. Ranked live.
Matt Pocockdiagnosing-bugs
Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow.
Matt Pocockask-matt
Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the skills in this repo.
Matt Pocockcode-review
Review the changes since a fixed point (commit, branch, tag, or merge-base) along two axes: Standards (does the code follow this repo's documented coding standards?) and Spec (does the code…
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincentwriting-skills
Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment
affaan-magent-self-evaluation
Use after completing any non-trivial task. The agent self-rates its output on 5 axes — accuracy, completeness, clarity, actionability, conciseness — with concrete evidence per criterion…
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicalgorithmic-art
Creating algorithmic art using p5.js with seeded randomness and interactive parameter exploration. Use this when users request creating art using code, generative art, algorithmic art, flow…
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicdocx
Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx files) or Word templates (.dotx files). Triggers include: any mention of 'Word doc', 'word…
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicmcp-builder
Guide for creating high-quality MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that enable LLMs to interact with external services through well-designed tools. Use when building MCP servers to…
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincentbrainstorming
You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, modifying behavior, or planning anything new, in software or out of it (a talk, a…
Leonxlnxdesign-taste-frontend
tasteskill 2.5.1, the anti-slop frontend skill. Builds professional company websites at the level of figma.com and x.ai: plain copy in a voice of its own, one system, one section per…
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincentdiagnosing-superpowers
Use when a superpowers session went wrong and your human partner wants to know why — repeated work, ignored plans, stumbles, poor results, a skill that didn't fire, "it took too long", "why…
affaan-mangular-developer
Generates Angular code and provides architectural guidance. Trigger when creating projects, components, or services, or for best practices on reactivity (signals, linkedSignal, resource)…
Official skills from the companies behind the tools
Microsoftazure-app-onboard
End-to-end orchestrator: from a business idea, app idea, or existing app to running Azure deployment with cost estimates and pre-deploy approval. Analyzes your app, auto-detects the right…
Microsoftazure-app-onboard-prereq
Assess whether source code is ready to deploy to Azure — the check BEFORE infrastructure work. Evaluates build health, app completeness, dependencies and local services, stack…
Microsoftazure-deploy
Execute Azure deployments for ALREADY-PREPARED applications that have existing .azure/deployment-plan.md and infrastructure files. DO NOT use this skill when the user asks to CREATE a new…
Vercel
Skills
Verceltriage
Identify focused, evidence-backed skills CLI bug fixes worth quuu's attention.
Vercel
Skills
Vercelfind-skills
Helps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express interest in extending…
Vercel
Skills
Vercelpr-labeling
Classify a skills CLI pull request from its description and patch, while respecting existing labels.
Remotion
Skills
Remotionremotion-markup
Content, animation and effects best practices
Remotion
Skills
Remotionremotion-best-practices
Router for all Remotion skills
Best Windsurf skills by job
Windsurf skills FAQ
Does Windsurf support agent skills?
Yes. Windsurf keeps skills in its own folder. The skills CLI writes them to the right place for you.
Where does Windsurf store skills?
Project skills go in .windsurf/skills/ and global skills in ~/.codeium/windsurf/skills/.
How do I use a skill in Windsurf?
Ask Cascade for the task; it loads the matching skill.
What are the best skills for Windsurf?
The most installed skills right now include Matt Pocock's skills, Superpowers, Taste Skill, Caveman and Anthropic's official skills. See the live list on this page.