Installed Plugin (Superpowers) Skills Not Available to Agent

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Bug Report: Installed Plugin (Superpowers) Skills Not Available to Agent

Summary

The Superpowers plugin is installed and enabled in Cursor, but the AI agent cannot see or use its skills (TDD, debugging, collaboration patterns, etc.). This makes the plugin effectively unusable from the agent’s perspective.

Environment

  • Cursor: Plugins UI shows Superpowers as “Installed” and enabled.
  • Settings: .cursor/settings.json contains "superpowers": { "enabled": true }.
  • Other plugins: Context7 (MCP) is visible and callable by the agent, so the issue appears specific to how Plugin-provided Skills are exposed.

Expected Behavior

After installing and enabling the Superpowers plugin, the agent should be able to:

  • See Superpowers-provided skills in its available skills list, and/or
  • Invoke or follow those skills (TDD, debugging, collaboration patterns) when relevant.

Actual Behavior

  • The agent’s available_skills list does not include any skill with a path or name identifying it as from Superpowers.
  • There is no Superpowers MCP server in the project’s MCP configuration, so the plugin cannot be used via MCP tools either.
  • Result: the agent has no way to explicitly use Superpowers’ capabilities, even though the plugin is installed and enabled.

Possible Causes (for Cursor team)

  1. Plugin-injected Skills are not merged into the skill set passed to the agent (e.g. in Composer/Agent context).
  2. Plugin Skills are only wired for certain surfaces (e.g. Chat) and not for the agent.
  3. Skills from plugins are merged without a clear identifier, so the agent cannot recognize or prefer “Superpowers” skills.

Suggested Fix

  • Ensure that skills provided by installed plugins (such as Superpowers) are included in the agent’s available skills list, with a way to identify their source (e.g. plugin name or path).
  • Alternatively or in addition, document how plugin skills are supposed to be used by the agent and under which conditions they are active.

Reproducibility

Consistently reproducible: install Superpowers from the plugin marketplace, enable it, then ask the agent to use or list Superpowers skills — the agent will report that it cannot see or call them.

This report was drafted for submission to Cursor feedback/support. You can copy the content above or attach this file.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open Cursor and go to Plugins (e.g. from the sidebar or settings).
  2. Install the Superpowers plugin from the marketplace (Core skills library: TDD, debugging, collaboration patterns, and proven techniques).
  3. Ensure Superpowers is enabled in the Installed list.
  4. Open Composer (Agent) and start a new conversation.
  5. Ask the agent: “Can you call or use Superpowers’ skills?” or “List skills from the Superpowers plugin.”
  6. Observe the response: the agent states it cannot see or invoke any skill identified as from Superpowers (no Superpowers entry in its available skills list, and no Superpowers MCP server).

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 2.5.25 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 7150844152b426ed50d2b68dd6b33b5c5beb73c0
Date: 2026-02-24T07:17:49.417Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.4.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Cursor 2.6: Team Marketplaces for Plugins
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Hey, this is a known issue. Plugin skills don’t always install correctly right now. It’s not just Superpowers, other plugins are affected too. More details here:

A couple things you can try:

  1. Fully quit Cursor and reopen it (not just Reload Window).
  2. Try calling the skill directly in chat with /skill-name. Sometimes they work even if they don’t show up in the list.

The team is aware of the issue. Let me know if any of this helps.

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Hey there!

Please try again on Cursor 2.6! This should be fixed now.

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Just tried. Still not working, / are not recognized whatsoever, the agent tries to find in the repo or just completely hallucinates what the command is supposed to do. Skills too and subagents sometimes do and sometimes don’t.

Reloading, quitting and opening again, even restarting the pc doesn’t do anything. I’ve tried a fresh install of cursor (full fresh, no temp files or leftovers) after the update and it also didn’t help.

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I am experiencing the same issue. Installed the Superpowers plugin from the Marketplace, but the skills are not available to the Agent. Here are my environment details:

Version: 2.6.12 (system setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 1917e900a0c4b0111dc7975777cfff60853059d0
Date: 2026-03-04T21:41:18.914Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.6.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

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This problem still exists.

Version: 2.6.12 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 1917e900a0c4b0111dc7975777cfff60853059d0
Date: 2026-03-04T21:41:18.914Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.6.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

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I can reproduce this on Windows specifically (not macOS), and I’ve reported it to the team. Thanks for following up here!

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Hey all!

We identified a bug where Plugins were just completely borked on Windows. This should be fixed in 2.6.18, so please upgrade when you get a chance!

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