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Public story · 2026-03-01 · source-backed
Cursor's marketplace bundles five plugin primitives — MCP servers, skills, subagents, hooks, and rules — into single-install packages. Launch partners: Figma, Linear, Stripe, AWS, Cloudflare, Vercel, Amplitude, Databricks, Snowflake, Hex. Private team marketplaces for enterprise governance coming. This is the devtools app store for agent capabilities.
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Two major releases in one week. v2.4 introduces async recursive subagents (background execution, tree coordination) and CLI Plan Mode (/plan). v2.5 adds a full plugin marketplace at cursor.com/marketplace with Amplitude, AWS, Figma, Linear, Stripe, Vercel, and others as launch...
Figma, Linear, Stripe, and AWS as day-one partners. Background Agents run on Cursor's servers and are accessible via Slack, Linear, and GitHub without local connection. Simultaneously, frontier models move to token-based billing in Max Mode today — a single complex prompt can...
The most architecturally significant IDE release this cycle. MCP servers can now return interactive HTML interfaces — analytics dashboards (Amplitude), design manipulation (Figma), whiteboard/diagramming (tldraw) — rendered directly inside agent chat. Also ships Team Plugin Ma...
Barry Zhang and Mahesh Murag, the engineers who built Claude Skills at Anthropic, published a talk and engineering post that's gotten 14K+ likes and is reshaping how I think about agent development. The core argument: most agent approaches fail because they lack domain experti...
Four platforms launched agent stores in one week. Notion Custom Agents work autonomously 24/7 via MCP connecting Slack, Mail, Calendar, Figma, Linear. Superhuman Agent Store opened with partner SDK. Combined with Cursor's marketplace and Anthropic's Cowork plugins, MCP-based d...
Anthropic's "The Briefing" enterprise event today unveiled Agent Skills as an open standard for pluggable agent capabilities, with launch partners including Microsoft, OpenAI, GitHub, Atlassian, Figma, Canva, Stripe, Notion, and Zapier. OpenAI was discovered to have quietly ad...
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