Cursor: MCP Apps and Team Marketplaces for Plugins

MCP Apps: Interactive UIs Inside Agent Chat

Cursor 2.6 introduces MCP Apps, a significant expansion of what MCP servers can do inside the editor. Previously, MCP servers were limited to returning text-based tool outputs. With MCP Apps, servers can now return fully interactive HTML interfaces — dashboards, charts, forms, diagrams, and media viewers — that render right inside the agent chat panel.

The feature launches with several illustrative integrations: Amplitude can display interactive analytics charts, Figma can surface live design diagrams, and tldraw can embed collaborative whiteboards. Any MCP server that returns an HTML response can participate, making MCP Apps an extensible rendering layer for the entire ecosystem of integrations teams build on top of Cursor.

Team Marketplaces for Plugins

Cursor's plugin system, introduced in version 2.5, allowed developers to publish and install plugins from a public marketplace. Version 2.6 extends this model to private, team-scoped registries. Admins on Teams and Enterprise plans can now create their own Team Marketplaces by linking a GitHub repository that hosts a collection of internal plugins.

The workflow is straightforward: navigate to Dashboard → Settings → Plugins, click Import under Team Marketplaces, paste a GitHub repo URL, and review the parsed plugin list before publishing. This gives organizations a centralized, governed way to distribute proprietary MCP servers, skills, subagents, and rules to their teams — without exposing them on the public marketplace.

Desktop Improvements

Version 2.6 ships 15 notable desktop improvements across agent and workflow functionality:

• Multiple parallel Debug mode sessions are now supported simultaneously
• Debug mode automatically cleans up stale code after each turn and adapts instrumentation logging to task complexity
• The Browser tool gained a right-click context menu and zoom functionality
• Plan file content now surfaces in autocomplete suggestions
• Multiple image attachments display as a gallery rather than individual items
• Multiline support has been added to Plan mode questions
• Multi-file edits and PR workflows have been accelerated
• PR context now includes better file and line anchoring
• Slack integration and long-running agent session stability have been enhanced
• Team and enterprise policy controls have been clarified in the UI
• MCP setup configuration is now more reliable

Bug Fixes

Ten desktop bugs were addressed in this release:

• Plan editor web links corrected
• Branch and PR status refresh behavior fixed
• False blockers resolved for diverging branches
• Review comment file references made consistent
• Diff display accuracy improved
• MCP configuration dialogs stabilized
• Model picker duplicate entries eliminated
• Team permission inconsistencies resolved
• Port allocation conflicts in Debug mode eliminated

Two web fixes round out the release: improved dashboard and account management visibility, and corrected layout issues in analytics views.