migrate-to-skills SKILL.md skillA
migrate-to-skills from coco-research/coco is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add coco-research/coco/migrate-to-skills@git:20260426.d53cc6cPins git:20260426.d53cc6c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- coco-research/coco
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- Latest version
- git:20260426.d53cc6c, committed Apr 26, 2026
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Convert 'Applied intelligently' Cursor rules (.cursor/rules/*.mdc) and slash commands (.cursor/commands/*.md) to Agent Skills format (.cursor/skills/). Use when the user wants to migrate rules or commands to skills, convert .mdc rules to SKILL.md format, or consolidate commands into the skills directory.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Migrate Rules and Slash Commands to Skills
Convert Cursor rules ("Applied intelligently") and slash commands to Agent Skills format.
**CRITICAL: Preserve the exact body content. Do not modify, reformat, or "improve" it - copy verbatim.**
## Locations
| Level | Source | Destination |
|-------|--------|-------------|
| Project | `{workspaceFolder}/**/.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `{workspaceFolder}/.cursor/commands/*.md` |
| User | `~/.cursor/commands/*.md` |
Notes:
- Cursor rules inside the project can live in nested directories. Be thorough in your search and use glob patterns to find them.
- Ignore anything in ~/.cursor/worktrees
- Ignore anything in ~/.cursor/skills-cursor. This is reserved for Cursor's internal built-in skills and is managed automatically by the system.
## Finding Files to Migrate
**Rules**: Migrate if rule has a `description` but NO `globs` and NO `alwaysApply: true`.
**Commands**: Migrate all - they're plain markdown without frontmatter.
## Conversion Format
### Rules: .mdc → SKILL.md
```markdown
# Before: .cursor/rules/my-rule.mdc
---
description: What this rule does
globs:
alwaysApply: false
---
# Title
Body content...
```
```markdown
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How to install
mdr add coco-research/coco/migrate-to-skills@sha256:a13f93f3b1fdcee9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260426.d53cc6c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_avh6b4hrjbbi7pb7)
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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 26, 2026.
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
coco-research/coco · 796 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_avh6b4hrjbbi7pb7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coco-research/coco/migrate-to-skills GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a13f93f3b1fdcee9101ee7e8c7b62336d80ea8cb8249b4c926227fbd09119f80
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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