Hey all! We’ve recently made some changes to the in-app extension library, to now use OpenVSX as the underlying library. Alongside this change, we have also started to publish and maintain our own versions of many popular extensions to ensure their continued compatibility with Cursor! These are sh…

For anyone frustrated by this, you can download .vsix files from this site: VSIX Downloader ( source ). You just have to rename from .VSIXPackage to .vsix and you can use CTRL-SHIFT-P, then find Extensions: Install from VSIX... and you can install manually. Auto Updating probably won’t work, but it…

[image] troutgoingupstream: Is there a plan to publish Anysphere’s alternative extension (python, cpp, dev containers) to the official VSCode library? No, we do not plan on publishing our extensions there. However, we are looking at supporting multiple active marketplaces client-side.

How are extensions different from MCP’s ?

Thank you for the response. That sounds promising!

Could not find pyright and Python package (ms-python) on the OpenVSX, so i cannot install plugins about python

[image] danperks: switch the marketplace backend how to switch

I’d suggest adding a verification mark for extension publishers to protect users from potentially malicious extensions. [Screenshot 2025-06-30 at 12.41.55] Some of openVSX extensions already have warning signs, but at the moment it isn’t shown anywhere inside the cursor app and users could only s…

Is it correct I cannot find the regular vs code devcontainer extension anymore? The one provided from Anysphere is not as complete (does not allow cloning into container and such).

Does cursor’s host of open-vsx also update download number to the upstream open-vsx?

After updating cursor, the claude code extension stopped working. Is this the reason why? If so how can it be fixed?

Extension Marketplace Changes - Transition to OpenVSX

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changxiaoqiang (ShuaiQChang) June 30, 2025, 8:50am 14

how to switch

Marketplace still fully unusable

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