Best skills & rules for Windsurf
6 skills tracked·ranked quality-first·Updated July 2026
The short answer
The best Windsurf tools are portable skills and .windsurfrules that encode real project conventions and workflows. Skill of Skills ranks 6 Windsurf-compatible tools quality-first, using structural evidence rather than popularity.
Windsurf reads its own rules format and, increasingly, the cross-tool skill standard. This guide ranks the Windsurf-compatible tools with the strongest structural quality so you can adopt rules and skills built to be followed.
Top 6 ranked quality-first
| # | Skill | Tier | Quality | Risk | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eyaltoledano/claude-task-master An AI-powered task-management system you can drop into Cursor, Lovable, Windsurf, Roo, and others. | Curated | 130 | high | Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf |
| 2 | antigravity-workspace-template Give Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI a ChatGPT for your codebase. Multi-agent knowledge engine, grounded Q&A with file paths and line numbers. Works in any AI IDE. | Curated | 124 | high | Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Cline |
| 3 | context-engineering-kit Hand-crafted plugin marketplace focused on improving agent results quality. Supports Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Windsurf, and Cline. | Promising | 114 | low | Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline |
| 4 | OpenMontage World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 pipelines, 52 tools, 500+ agent skills. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio. | Curated | 124 | high | Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf |
| 5 | skills-for-fabric A collection of skills and MCP systems to enable users of CLI, VSCode, Claude to operate over Microsoft Fabric | Promising | 97 | high | Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf |
| 6 | unreal-mcp Enable AI assistant clients like Cursor, Windsurf and Claude Desktop to control Unreal Engine through natural language using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). | Experimental | 77 | medium | Cursor, Windsurf, Cline |
Frequently asked
addHow is a Windsurf tool scored?
By the quality-first composite: structural quality (55%), reputation, recency, and momentum. Each tool also carries an assessed risk level.