After 3.5.X, the local plugin stopped stopped being loaded. No rules, skills, commands appears on the Settings section. The plugin stopped showing up on the Plugins management interface.
Downgrading to 3.4 resolves the issue.
Steps to Reproduce
Just by using the latest Cursor IDE and having it in the ~/.cursor/plugins/local/. Even following the guides on the Plugin documentation.
Same here! After updating to 3.5.X, all of my local plugins, rules, and skills completely disappeared from both the Settings and the Plugin management interface.
Downgrading to 3.4 brought everything back instantly. Hoping for a quick hotfix from the team!
This behavior was introduced as a new enterprise admin control in a recent update. It gates local plugin loading behind a team-level setting that defaults to “off” for enterprise teams.
Immediate workaround: Ask your team admin to go to the Admin Dashboard > Marketplace and Plugins section and toggle “Allow Local Plugin Imports” to ON. Your local plugins should reappear immediately.
While the gating makes sense to us, we only realized after the fact that team settings were the reason local plugins disappeared, which was easy to miss as plugin developers.
If feasible maybe a hint on the Plugins page (plus where to find the team setting) could save others the same confusion?
Hi! I’m running into the same issue but when I reach out to my org’s admin, they told me that they couldn’t find the option to toggle. Could you provide more details/ detailed instructions on this? Thank you so much!
@liukatkatkat the toggle only appears for Enterprise team admins, and it lives in a non-obvious spot, so it’s easy to miss. Here’s the exact path for your admin:
Dashboard → Settings → “Security & Identity” group → “Marketplace and Plugins” → “Allow Local Plugin Imports” (it’s the second toggle in that section). The quickest way to land on it: open team Settings and type “plugins” in the settings search bar - it’ll jump straight there.
If your admin still doesn’t see it, two things to check:
They need to be an Admin on the team (a regular Member won’t see this section at all).
It only shows for teams on the Enterprise plan. If your team isn’t on Enterprise, this setting isn’t what’s hiding your plugins, and you’re likely hitting a separate issue. If that’s the case, drop your plan type and Cursor version here and I’ll dig in.
@Gal_Ben_Arieh fair point, and you’re right that it’s not surfaced anywhere today, the Plugins page and the docs don’t mention this team setting at all. That’s good feedback, and I’ll pass it along to improve both the in-product hint and the docs.