After recent release of Cursor’s marketplace plugins, I was excited to try out and build a plugin for Scalekit (an auth stack for AI apps). I specifically first wanted to try releasing with one feature that allows developers using cursor to add auth to their MCP servers.
When I moved to testing the plugin, there are no clear docs on how to do this. Any help? I have some confidence because claude works out of the box with it perfectly. But want to test specific to cursor anyway.
I submitted the form on the cursor dashboard twice, over the period; but no progress, no email, no notifications nothing as of yet.
I can see over days other plugins becoming live. I wonder if I should be something else?
The publisher dashboard seems disabled.
I reached out to [email protected] and follow up for 5-6 times. Except for initial bot response moving to a collegue email, nothing help so far.
Now, seemingly tried all the options, posting it here as a last resort to see if I could can some help; else probably focus on something else for now.
Hey, thanks for building this and for the detailed write-up.
A few things that should help:
Testing your plugin locally: The Building Plugins docs explain the plugin structure and manifest format. For local testing, you can install your plugin from a local folder. Open Cursor Settings, go to the Plugins section, and point it to your local repo. This lets you confirm rules, skills, MCP servers, and more work before you submit.
On the submission and review process: The marketplace is currently curated. The team works directly with plugin authors and manually reviews every submission before listing it. That means it is not a self-serve flow yet, and turnaround time can vary. I know that does not help with the lack of communication though.
A couple of quick questions in the meantime:
About when did you first submit the form?
Which form did you use exactly? Was it on the publisher dashboard?
I’ll update here once I have more info from the team.
Thanks for throwing light on the marketplace listing. That’s very helpful, if you could any share inputs if I can work with the team to be become a partner?
I don’t remember the exact date, but I first followed up with cursor support over email for ([email protected]) it was on Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:35:10 +0530 and followed up through 27 Feb on same email thread. So it must be within the week before first email.
PS: Sorry for the delayed response, I have updated my notification preferences, should get back to you sooner.
@deanrie , we are ready to submit a plugin as well, but have the same question that @saif_shines did, namely that there’s no obvious place in Settings → Plugins to specify a local repository; this interface is just a list of suggested plugins along with a ‘Browse Marketplace’ button. Clicking this doesn’t provide a place to enter a local repository either.
Along with this, Plugins Reference | Cursor Docs doesn’t contain the guidance you’ve provided, or any guidance around testing really, other than checking to make sure that the plugin has been tested locally before submission.
