Customize Cursor
Plugins, skills, and MCPs let you customize Cursor for your workflows. The Customize page brings them into one place.
Open Customize from the sidebar in Cursor to add and manage extensions at the user, team, or workspace level. You can install official and community plugins, connect MCP servers (including your own), and control which rules, skills, subagents, commands, and hooks are active for each scope.
What you can do from Customize
From the Customize page, you can:
- Browse and install plugins, skills, and MCPs from the Cursor Marketplace with one click
- Install Team MCP servers shared through your team's Default marketplace
- See your team leaderboard of the most popular plugins, skills, and MCPs across your team and the community
- Add and manage plugins, skills, MCPs, subagents, rules, commands, and hooks without switching between separate settings pages
- Filter by scope to see what is installed for you, your workspace, or your team
- Open plugin canvases for shared setup templates your team can reuse
Learn more in the changelog.
Extension components
Cursor extensions are built from composable pieces. Plugins often bundle several of these together, but you can also add each component on its own.
| Component | Description |
|---|---|
| Plugins | Distributable bundles that package rules, skills, subagents, commands, MCP servers, and hooks. Install from the marketplace or a team marketplace. |
| Rules | Persistent instructions that shape how Agent works with your code. Use project rules, user rules, team rules, or AGENTS.md. |
| Skills | Specialized capabilities Agent loads when relevant. Skills package domain knowledge, workflows, and scripts in SKILL.md files. See Agent Skills. |
| Subagents | Specialized assistants Agent delegates to for parallel or isolated work. Each subagent runs in its own context window. See Subagents. |
| Hooks | Scripts that observe, control, or extend the agent loop at specific lifecycle events. See Hooks. |
| Commands | Reusable prompts you invoke with / in Agent chat. Commands are markdown files that define a focused workflow or action. |
For MCP servers that connect Cursor to external tools and data sources, see Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Marketplace leaderboard
Cursor shows a leaderboard of the most popular plugins, skills, and MCPs across your team.
Add any entry to your setup with one click from the Customize page and extend Cursor for your workflow. The leaderboard helps you discover what teammates and the community use most, so you can adopt proven setups quickly.
Browse the full catalog in the Cursor Marketplace. For community plugins and MCP servers, see cursor.directory.
Learn more
Plugins
Browse the marketplace, install plugins, and set up team marketplaces
Rules
Write project, user, and team rules that guide Agent behavior
Skills
Package specialized workflows in portable SKILL.md files
MCP
Connect Cursor to external tools, APIs, and data sources
Subagents
Delegate complex tasks to specialized agents
Hooks
Run scripts at key points in the agent loop