Do plugins have to be installed in the project to be used?

As shown in the figure, I have installed the superpowers plugin, but when I use the slash in the dialog box, it does not list the superpowers commands. Do I need to install it in the project directory or what?

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Hey @Qiang!

I also have trouble with this plugin. Looking into the logs I see;

[2026-02-21T22:53:48.158Z] shallowClone https://github.com/obra/superpowers@a0b9ecce2b25aa7d703138f17650540c2e8b2cde completed in 548.4ms
[2026-02-21T22:53:48.166Z] Cursor plugin load error superpowers@a0b9ecce2b25aa7d703138f17650540c2e8b2cde: Unable to install plugin "superpowers" without gitPath: Plugin "superpowers" has unresolved or unsafe source path

I’ll follow up with the team who has been working with our first round of plugin developers! Thanks for reporting this.

thanks man. I’m also having the same issue at my two laptops.
lets hope the team could have a look at the issue and release a fix soon.
not sure if i should wait or just add the skills manually.


And I noticed that after installing this plugin, N rules are added simultaneously, and these rules still exist even after uninstalling the plugin. Is this designed to be this way?

We did track down a bug in the plugin manifest parser that caused this issue. A fix is merged and should be released soon.

Looking at the plugin it seems like these should be Skills, not Rules. Could these rules be coming from somewhere else? Check your home directory (./cursor/rules)!

It indeed came from the rules, as shown in the figure. After I uninstalled the plugin, the skills disappeared, but these rules remained, so I manually deleted them one by one.