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create-plugin
Meta-workflow for scaffolding a marketplace-ready Cursor plugin — manifest, skills, rules, agents, and commands together — plus a pre-submission quality check.
What it actually does
- Scaffolds a new plugin directory with manifest, components, and repository wiring (
create-plugin-scaffold), then runs a pre-submission quality check against marketplace expectations (review-plugin-submission). - Bundles a
plugin-architectagent that helps design the plugin's structure and component mix for a concrete use case, plus aplugin-quality-gatesrule that keeps manifests and paths valid.
When to use it — and when not to
Use it when
- You're building a whole Cursor plugin — multiple skills, agents, rules, or commands together — not just one skill.
Not for
- You only need one skill authored —
/create-skillis the right scope for that, without the plugin-level scaffolding.
Agent compatibility
- Cursor
Cursor-native — scaffolds Cursor's own plugin.json/skills/rules/agents/commands format.
Confirmed means the skill’s own source or vendor states it works with that agent. Portable means it only reaches that agent through the shared SKILL.md format and a directory convention — real, but a weaker claim. An agent with no entry here isn’t known to be unsupported; it simply isn’t documented either way, so nothing is claimed. Full model on Agent Skills Compatibility.
Related skills
- /create-skillSame job at a smaller scope —
/create-skillwrites one skill; this scaffolds a whole plugin around several.
Cursor plugins that relate to this
A plugin is a bundle rather than a skill — it can carry several skills, plus subagents, rules, and hooks. See Cursor plugins for the distinction.
- pstackA Cursor plugin built around one sticky mode that matches a request to a named playbook and applies a stated engineering principle at each step.
More from cursor/plugins
Other skills from the same source.
- orchestrateFans a large task out across parallel Cursor cloud agents via the Cursor SDK — planners publish tasks, workers hand off, a script reconciles the tree from disk and git.
- continual-learningAutomatically and incrementally keeps AGENTS.md up to date, mining new session transcripts on a cadence and updating matching bullets in place rather than rewriting the file.
- agent-compatibilityScores how well a repo holds up under agent workflows — startup, validation, and docs reliability — by pairing a published CLI scan with three focused review agents.
- cli-for-agentDesign and review guidance for building CLIs meant to be driven by coding agents — non-interactive flags, layered --help, stdin/pipelines, fast errors, idempotency, --dry-run.
- cursor-sdkIntegration guidance for building on the Cursor TypeScript SDK (@cursor/sdk) — invocation patterns, runtime choice, auth, streaming, MCP, and error handling.
Evidence and provenance
Maintained by Cursor (official). Primary source: cursor/plugins, last checked against this page’s claims on . This page summarizes and analyzes that source — it isn’t a copy of its SKILL.md or README, and installation happens at the source, not here.
Topic: Agent Workflows.