Is it possible to sync extensions / settings between installations?

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I have Cursor on 3 devices, 2x Win 1x macOS. Is it possible to keep these in sync with each other?

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I like to simply import and export VSC profiles to do that.

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I was just working through this for my new work laptop. This is my new method since syncing profiles failed to install my extensions.

You can dump a list of your extensions from your existing cursor install with this command:

cursor --profile <profile-name or blank for default> --list-extensions > extensions.txt

I used the agent to turn the the extension list into a recommended list for my dotfiles repository (see here), but you could also use jq with this command:

jq -R '[inputs] | {"recommendations": .}' < ./path/to/generated/extensions.txt > .vscode/extensions.json

From there you can open your repo (for me it was my dotfiles) and install recommended workspace extensions. Saved a lot of time since the CLI fails to verify and as a result install extensions.

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