Silent failed on installing private plugin

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Hi @Justin_Martin,

This is a known issue with team marketplace plugins hosted in private GitHub repositories. A fix is actively under review.

To answer your question about the download mechanism: the IDE clones plugin repos using your local git, not through the dashboard API. So the GitHub org connection on the dashboard doesn’t carry over to the install step.

To unblock yourself now:

  1. Set up git access to the private repo on your machine (e.g., a credential helper or PAT), then delete the empty folders under ~/.cursor/plugins/cache/ and reinstall from the marketplace panel.

  2. Or, as a fallback: copy the plugin into ~/.cursor/plugins/local/your-plugin-name/ (with .cursor-plugin/plugin.json at the root) and restart Cursor. See Test plugins locally. This won’t distribute to your team, but it unblocks you individually.

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