Cursor Marketplace and Plugins

The marketplace is where you install plugins that customize Cursor. Instead of copying a rule file or wiring up an MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. server by hand, you browse, install with one click, and the pluginA Cursor marketplace package that bundles MCP servers and skills (sometimes sub-agents and hooks); one click installs all of it into your Cursor instance. Press Enter for the full definition.'s pieces land in the right places.

The marketplace and the extension registry are separate catalogs, and they are easy to confuse. Editor extensions and themes still come from Open VSX (migrating from VS Code covers what that changes). The marketplace installs agent configuration: MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. servers, skill files and config, so one click can bring in more than it appears to.

A pluginA Cursor marketplace package that bundles MCP servers and skills (sometimes sub-agents and hooks); one click installs all of it into your Cursor instance. Press Enter for the full definition. is a bundle. One install can ship any mix of the six customization types, so a team's whole working setup travels as a single unit: rules, skills, and the commands and MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. connections they depend on.

The catalog is easier to grasp through named examples than through the six-type list. A few are first-party or Cursor-authored, which makes them good reference material as well as useful installs.

Plugins also do useful plumbing. A custom IDE pluginA Cursor marketplace package that bundles MCP servers and skills (sometimes sub-agents and hooks); one click installs all of it into your Cursor instance. Press Enter for the full definition. can wire in the MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. client definitions for a set of servers, then ship skills that steer the agent to use those MCP tools well. One install gets you the servers and the skills that know how to drive them.

The Google Workspace release is a concrete case: Cursor lists separate Google Drive, Gmail and Google Calendar plugins in Marketplace and Customize.

Drive can search, open, create and organize files, and Gmail can read, draft and send mail or manage threads. Calendar can read schedules, find free time and change events. Install only the account access a workflow needs, and see the Google Workspace pluginsSeparate Cursor plugins for Gmail, Google Drive and Google Calendar that let an authorized agent read or change workspace data. Press Enter for the full definition. guide for the action boundaries.

Cursor reviews third-party plugins before it lists them, and because most of a pluginA Cursor marketplace package that bundles MCP servers and skills (sometimes sub-agents and hooks); one click installs all of it into your Cursor instance. Press Enter for the full definition. is plain text, you can audit what it does before you install it. The exception is an MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. server, which is code that runs and reaches external systems. Review what it connects to and what permissions it asks for.

That leaves hooks. They sit in the readable half of the bundle, which makes them easy to skip past. A command hook, the default kind, is a shell script Cursor runs when the agent hits a lifecycle point, so installing a bundle that ships one means agreeing to run someone else's script at that point.

Reading a pluginA Cursor marketplace package that bundles MCP servers and skills (sometimes sub-agents and hooks); one click installs all of it into your Cursor instance. Press Enter for the full definition. is a good way to learn from it, but we wouldn't count it as a review. The hook and the server are what change your exposure.

On Teams and Enterprise plans, an organization can run its own team marketplace. Admins create one from scratch or import it from a repository, and developers install the team's approved rules, skills, commands, MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. servers and hooks from one place.

Plugins reach people through two kinds of marketplace: the public Cursor Marketplace and your team's own. A team marketplace imported from a repository stays tied to it, so you add or update a pluginA Cursor marketplace package that bundles MCP servers and skills (sometimes sub-agents and hooks); one click installs all of it into your Cursor instance. Press Enter for the full definition. with a commit, not in a separate publishing console. The marketplace picks up the change when it refreshes, which can happen automatically on a GitHub import.

Which scope to standardize at is mostly a question of headcount. For a handful of people, committed repo config covers it, and a team marketplace is machinery you would maintain for its own sake. It is worth the upkeep once asking everyone to set up the same thing stops working. Even then, push team-wide only what causes a problem when it differs between people, and leave preferences at user scope.

The Customize page is where you install and manage plugins, skills and MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. servers. Deeplinks are the sharing layer: a team can hand someone a link to a prompt, command or rule that opens in Cursor or through cursor.com.

Use Customize for lasting installs, and deeplinks to share one working pattern.