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Cursor plugin specification

Cursor's published format for editor plugins, in which each plugin is a directory carrying a .cursor-plugin/plugin.json manifest that declares its category, entry point, dependencies, state file and orchestration behaviour.

Known aliases

.cursor-plugin/plugin.json
plugin.json

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Cursor's plugin.json puts agent tool scope where a code reviewer can diff it

Cursor's plugin manifest declares each plugin's dependencies, entry point and parallelism flags in one file, so a scope change lands in a diff. The write-up does not say what checks those declarations at run time.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence26
Adoption22
Hype gap+35
Incentives: Insufficient
Confidence30