Comparisons
Confusion queries first. Marketplace bait never. Each guide links back to the three pillars.
Rules constrain. Skills teach. If you put the same text in both, you waste context and confuse the agent. Here is the split we ship.
The Cursor forum asks this every week. Skills and commands can look like the same markdown. They are not the same job.
An agent is who. A command is the order of who. Confusing them is how people ask one chat to be the whole company.
You can write five skills this weekend. That is a valid setup. Here is what you are signing up for if you keep going to 34/49/35 by hand.
“Best” here means: we run them on this product. Not install counts from a marketplace. Twelve to start, 49 if you want the rest.
The hero is /ship. The discipline is knowing when not to run it. These are the commands that survive a real week.
This list is roles you install. It will not rank for “what is Cursor Agent” against cursor.com. It will help you pick a desk.
