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Adjectives describe a noun which is marked by が.

僕は料理が得意。

Could it be rewritten as

僕には料理が得意。

Or is it wrong?

Regarding adjectives, a sentence like this would be correct:

僕にはペンが必要です。

Would a sentence like the following one be correct?

僕がペンを必要する。

(I think I should say 必要にする, but I am not sure.)

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僕には料理が得意。

is simply ungrammatical.

僕にはペンが必要です。

is grammatical only because 必要だ can take two arguments (AがBに) as word-specific feature, not that it's a universal grammar for adjectives. It's like the English word worth can have an object but most other adjectives can't.

Other adjectives that take に include ふさわしい (あなたが隊長にふさわしい) and 夢中だ (僕は君に夢中だ) etc., but basically you have to learn one by one.

And as already pointed out in comments above:

× 僕がペンを必要する。
僕がペンを必要にする。 → I make the pens necessary.
僕がペンを必要とする。 → I necessitate a pen.

na-adjective + にする results in a verb "make ... adjective" and とする "regard ... adjective".

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  • An edit suggestion included adding a link to the following page, it may be worth taking a look at it and incorporating it if you like it. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/447990/similar-adjectives-to-worth – ajsmart Apr 24 '20 at 13:45
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    Done. Thank you @rebuuilt and @ ajsmart. – broccoli facemask Apr 24 '20 at 14:50
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僕には料理が得意

when you say like this, it will give the impression that someone else you are going to talk about is not good at cook.

It's same like this,

僕にはできません I can't do it (but someone can do it)

僕がペンを大切にする can be translated as I care about the pen.

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