# cursor/plugins

Source: [GitHub](https://github.com/cursor/plugins)  
Feed7 permalink: https://feed7.dev/p/plugins-0vuoqp2  
Published: Unknown  
Trust: Needs Review (needs_review)

## Why Included

Cursor’s official plugin repository defines a manifest-based package format for bundling skills, rules, MCP servers and agent workflows. It offers concrete patterns for reusable coding-agent tooling.

## Source Summary

Cursor’s repository is both a plugin specification and a marketplace of official integrations. A root **marketplace.json** indexes standalone directories, each carrying its own **plugin.json** manifest and optionally skills, rules and MCP configuration.

## Practical Implication

Use it as a reference when packaging repeatable agent behavior instead of copying prompts between repositories. The included patterns cover plugin scaffolding, agent-friendly CLIs, SDK integrations, memory updates, reviews and planner-worker-verifier handoffs.

## Agent-Ready Context

Cursor’s repository is both a plugin specification and a marketplace of official integrations. A root **marketplace.json** indexes standalone directories, each carrying its own **plugin.json** manifest and optionally skills, rules and MCP configuration.

Use it as a reference when packaging repeatable agent behavior instead of copying prompts between repositories. The included patterns cover plugin scaffolding, agent-friendly CLIs, SDK integrations, memory updates, reviews and planner-worker-verifier handoffs.

The catalog mixes coding workflows with remote SaaS connectors, so installing a plugin can expand an agent’s data access and action surface. The supplied material describes structure and capabilities, but provides no compatibility, security or reliability results.

## Connected Context

Feed7 judgment across 542 accumulated Signals:

This makes reusable agent behavior a distributable product surface rather than repository-by-repository prompt copying. It provides a concrete Cursor implementation of the emerging skills-and-MCP packaging pattern, but also widens the governance boundary: manifests can bundle instructions, orchestration, tools, and remote access without supplying evidence that those components are safe, compatible, or reliable.

- [Introducing Agent Plugins](https://feed7.dev/p/introducing-agent-plugins-03zlvnf) — Vercel’s shared plugin contract places Cursor’s concrete marketplace within a broader portability effort, while clarifying that packaging compatibility does not solve distribution, policy, or security.
- [holaboss-ai/holaOS](https://feed7.dev/p/holaos-1d2czv6) — holaOS extends the same reuse goal from portable plugin components to a shared multi-agent workspace, trading less duplicated setup for a broader integrated trust surface.
- [alirezarezvani/claude-skills](https://feed7.dev/p/claude-skills-06ix38u) — Its large cross-agent skill catalog shows the scale that plugin distribution can reach and why conversion and security auditing become implementation requirements rather than optional extras.
- [citrolabs/ego-lite](https://feed7.dev/p/ego-lite-1i7kk2j) — ego lite illustrates the access consequence of installable skills: a plugin can move beyond guidance into authenticated browser sessions, making isolation and permission review material.

## Context Map

- Layer: tools
- Domains: coding
- Topics: coding-agents, skills, mcp

## Uncertainty

- The catalog mixes coding workflows with remote SaaS connectors, so installing a plugin can expand an agent’s data access and action surface. The supplied material describes structure and capabilities, but provides no compatibility, security or reliability results.

## Agent Instruction

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