update-cursor-plugins

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Copy every plugin from a Cursor marketplace catalog into ~/.cursor/plugins/local as real files (no symlinks). Use when installing or refreshing wild-horses (or any dual-manifest marketplace) for Cursor, when team marketplace refresh is unavailable, or when local plugin installs must not point at a checkout via symlink.

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name	update-cursor-plugins
description	Copy every plugin from a Cursor marketplace catalog into ~/.cursor/plugins/local as real files (no symlinks). Use when installing or refreshing wild-horses (or any dual-manifest marketplace) for Cursor, when team marketplace refresh is unavailable, or when local plugin installs must not point at a checkout via symlink.
user-invocable	true
disable-model-invocation	true
argument-hint	[marketplace-root]

Update Cursor Plugins (local copy)

Install or refresh all plugins listed in a marketplace's .cursor-plugin/marketplace.json into Cursor's local plugin directory as real file trees. Never symlink.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS — optional path to the marketplace root (directory that contains .cursor-plugin/marketplace.json). Defaults to the current workspace root when that file exists there.

Why

Cursor team-marketplace refresh lives on the web dashboard, not in the IDE, and cursor-agent has no marketplace update command. Copying catalog plugins into ~/.cursor/plugins/local/<name>/ is the reliable local install path. Symlinks into worktrees break when the worktree goes away.

Workflow

Resolve the marketplace root:
- If $ARGUMENTS is a non-empty path, use it.
- Else if ./.cursor-plugin/marketplace.json exists, use ..
- Else ask the user for the marketplace root path.
Confirm the manifest exists: <root>/.cursor-plugin/marketplace.json.
Run the bundled updater (one Bash call — do not hand-roll cp/ln):

python3 "<skill-or-plugin-root>/skills/update-cursor-plugins/scripts/update_cursor_plugins.py" "<marketplace-root>"

When this skill is running from an installed marketplace plugin, prefer:

python3 "${CURSOR_PLUGIN_ROOT:-${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}}/skills/update-cursor-plugins/scripts/update_cursor_plugins.py" "<marketplace-root>"

If neither plugin-root env is set (dev checkout), resolve the script relative to this skill's directory.

Report the script's copied= / skipped= summary to the user.
Tell the user to run Developer: Reload Window, then enable plugins under Customize and confirm hooks under Settings → Hooks.

Rules

Don't create symlinks into ~/.cursor/plugins/local/ (or anywhere else for this install).
Don't point local installs at ephemeral worktrees; copy from a durable marketplace checkout (or the repo root you intend to keep).
Don't invent a second copy destination — default is ~/.cursor/plugins/local (override only if the user explicitly asks).
The script skips entries whose source dir is missing or that lack .cursor-plugin/plugin.json, and replaces an existing destination symlink with a real tree.

Verify

After a successful run:

ls -la ~/.cursor/plugins/local/
# each entry should be a directory (drwx...), not a symlink (l...)
test -f ~/.cursor/plugins/local/pr-status-hook/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json
test -f ~/.cursor/plugins/local/pr-status-hook/hooks/cursor-hooks.json

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name	update-cursor-plugins
description	Copy every plugin from a Cursor marketplace catalog into ~/.cursor/plugins/local as real files (no symlinks). Use when installing or refreshing wild-horses (or any dual-manifest marketplace) for Cursor, when team marketplace refresh is unavailable, or when local plugin installs must not point at a checkout via symlink.
user-invocable	true
disable-model-invocation	true
argument-hint	[marketplace-root]

Update Cursor Plugins (local copy)

Install or refresh all plugins listed in a marketplace's .cursor-plugin/marketplace.json into Cursor's local plugin directory as real file trees. Never symlink.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS — optional path to the marketplace root (directory that contains .cursor-plugin/marketplace.json). Defaults to the current workspace root when that file exists there.

Why

Workflow

Resolve the marketplace root:
- If $ARGUMENTS is a non-empty path, use it.
- Else if ./.cursor-plugin/marketplace.json exists, use ..
- Else ask the user for the marketplace root path.
Confirm the manifest exists: <root>/.cursor-plugin/marketplace.json.
Run the bundled updater (one Bash call — do not hand-roll cp/ln):

python3 "<skill-or-plugin-root>/skills/update-cursor-plugins/scripts/update_cursor_plugins.py" "<marketplace-root>"

When this skill is running from an installed marketplace plugin, prefer:

python3 "${CURSOR_PLUGIN_ROOT:-${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}}/skills/update-cursor-plugins/scripts/update_cursor_plugins.py" "<marketplace-root>"

If neither plugin-root env is set (dev checkout), resolve the script relative to this skill's directory.

Report the script's copied= / skipped= summary to the user.
Tell the user to run Developer: Reload Window, then enable plugins under Customize and confirm hooks under Settings → Hooks.

Rules

Don't create symlinks into ~/.cursor/plugins/local/ (or anywhere else for this install).
Don't point local installs at ephemeral worktrees; copy from a durable marketplace checkout (or the repo root you intend to keep).
Don't invent a second copy destination — default is ~/.cursor/plugins/local (override only if the user explicitly asks).
The script skips entries whose source dir is missing or that lack .cursor-plugin/plugin.json, and replaces an existing destination symlink with a real tree.

Verify

After a successful run:

ls -la ~/.cursor/plugins/local/
# each entry should be a directory (drwx...), not a symlink (l...)
test -f ~/.cursor/plugins/local/pr-status-hook/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json
test -f ~/.cursor/plugins/local/pr-status-hook/hooks/cursor-hooks.json