Cursor Plugins Skills — Setup Guide¶
Source: cursor/plugins GitHub: cursor/plugins Skills: 79 skills · 72.0K total installs Category: Code Review & Engineering Discipline First Seen: catalogued August 16, 2026 sweep (top skill on skills.sh since May 21, 2026) Quality Tier: 🟢 Production — official Cursor org; top skill passes all three security audits
The largest single engineering-discipline cluster catalogued to date: 79 skills covering unusually strict code review, PR hygiene, CI failure loops, and a "principles" series encoding engineering judgment. The flagship thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review pushes agents toward ambitious restructurings that preserve behavior while making the code dramatically simpler.
Installation¶
npx skills add cursor/plugins
Individual skills install with the explicit repo form:
npx skills add https://github.com/cursor/plugins --skill thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review
Prerequisites¶
| Requirement | Details |
|---|---|
| Node.js + npx | For the skill installer |
| Git repository | Most skills operate on a branch's diff |
| CI access | For loop-on-ci and fix-ci skills |
What It Provides¶
| Skill | Installs | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review | 10.3K | Deep code-quality audit of branch changes, "code judo" restructurings |
| deslop | 3.6K | Remove AI-slop patterns from code |
| fix-merge-conflicts | 1.6K | Resolve conflicts autonomously |
| make-pr-easy-to-review | 1.5K | PR hygiene for reviewers |
| review-and-ship | 1.5K | End-to-end review-to-merge flow |
| what-did-i-get-done | 1.5K | Session work recap |
| pr-review-canvas | 1.5K | Structured PR review workspace |
| fix-ci / get-pr-comments / loop-on-ci | 1.4K | CI failure recovery loop |
| weekly-review | 1.4K | Periodic engineering review |
| check-compiler-errors | 1.4K | Build verification |
| new-branch-and-pr / run-smoke-tests | 1.4K | Branch and test workflow |
| control-ui / control-cli / verify-this | 1.3K | Plugin control surface |
| unslop / thermo-nuclear-review | 1.0K | Additional slop-removal passes |
Plus a 24-skill "principles" series (foundational thinking, boundary discipline, guard-the-context-window, prove-it-works, and more) and 40+ additional utilities — 79 skills total.
Quick Start¶
- Install:
npx skills add cursor/plugins - Start with
thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review— it carries 10.3K of the suite's installs - Ask: "run a thermo-nuclear review of this branch before I open the PR"
CorpusIQ Use Cases¶
| Use Case | How |
|---|---|
| PR quality gate | Thermo-nuclear review pairs with our GitHub workflow before merging |
| CI self-healing | loop-on-ci and fix-ci automate the retry loop we do manually today |
| Slop removal | deslop/unslop match our AI-writing audit doctrine, applied to code |
| Branch hygiene | make-pr-easy-to-review and new-branch-and-pr standardize our contribution flow |
Limitations / Verification¶
- Security audits on thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review: Gen Agent Trust Hub Pass, Socket Pass, Snyk Pass — 3/3
- Publisher-page install counts verified (72.0K total); GitHub 2.9K stars on the repo
- Long tail is shallow: most skills beyond the top five are sub-1.5K installs — treat as early content
- Review skills are opinionated; they will propose large restructurings. Pair with a human gate on high-stakes repos
npx skills add cursor/plugins # verify install works
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