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Skills2026-07-02 · source-backed
It's now the cross-tool standard read by 60,000+ repos, natively understood by Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Aider, Windsurf, and Zed. Stop maintaining separate .cursorrules and .windsurfrules. Keep one mission file and let each tool discover it. Inside it, tell the agent to decompose the task into steps first, then execute each.
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Windsurf partners with Devin / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Windsurf partners with Devin); both cover Aider, Codex, Copilot, Cursor; overlapping topics (agent, aider, codex, instruction).
Cursor benchmarked against Windsurf / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor benchmarked against Windsurf); both cover Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI; overlapping topics (agent, codex, copilot, cursor).
Agent Skills supports Windsurf / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Agent Skills supports Windsurf); both cover Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI; overlapping topics (agent, codex, copilot, cursor).
Cursor benchmarked against Windsurf / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor benchmarked against Windsurf); both cover Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI; overlapping topics (agent, codex).
Cursor benchmarked against Windsurf / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor benchmarked against Windsurf); both cover Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI; overlapping topics (codex, copilot, cursor, file, gemini).
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor benchmarked against Windsurf); both cover Aider, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf; overlapping topics (agent, aider, copilot, cursor).
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor benchmarked against Windsurf); both cover Aider, Codex, Cursor; overlapping topics (agent, aider, codex, cursor, file).
Cursor benchmarked against Windsurf / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor benchmarked against Windsurf); both cover Codex, Copilot, Cursor; overlapping topics (agent, codex, copilot, cursor).