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Model And Product Updates

Customize Cursor

02:00 · June 22, 2026 · Cursor Blog

Customize Cursor

Summary

Cursor has introduced a centralized Customize page that consolidates management of plugins, skills, Model Context Protocols (MCPs), subagents, rules, commands, and hooks. Users can configure these components at the individual, team, or workspace level and import custom MCPs to tailor the AI coding environment to specific workflows.

The update adds a leaderboard that ranks the most popular plugins, skills, and MCPs within a team, allowing one-click addition directly from the page. This provides a quick way to discover and adopt extensions that have already gained traction among colleagues.

Plugins now include prebuilt canvases, which function as reusable setup templates. Examples include the Hex Canvas for constructing data visualizations and the Atlassian Canvas for displaying live views of issues, projects, and documents.

Team marketplaces have been extended to import plugin repositories from GitLab, BitBucket, and Azure DevOps, simplifying distribution of custom extensions across an organization.

Why it matters

This update is highly relevant for AI product teams and builders as it introduces advanced workflow customizations in Cursor, including MCPs and subagents. These features directly enhance developer productivity and team collaboration, which are crucial for Dutch AI practitioners and SMEs.

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