fix(server): include Cursor plugin skills in the composer picker

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Fixes #16408

The composer $ picker only scanned folder skill roots, so enabled Cursor plugin skills never appeared and $name was not rewritten to /name. Discovery now also reads ~/.cursor/plugins/local and a cache plugin only when exactly one version is marked .cache-complete.

discoverCursorSkills
  folder roots (.cursor, .agents, .codex, .claude)
  ~/.cursor/plugins/local/<plugin>
  ~/.cursor/plugins/cache/<marketplace>/<plugin>/<sha>
    only when that sha is the single .cache-complete version
      plugin.json skills path, or skills/ plus a root SKILL.md
  rewrite $name -> /name for invocable names

The agent catalog is unchanged. Signed-in Cursor sessions already pass settingSources: plugins and an API key, so the SDK loads those skills itself. Team marketplaces outside cursor-public, and sessions that are not signed in, still will not see plugin skills in the model catalog.

Picker-only scope follows Julius's note on #16408: the composer scan is the hole, and the agent catalog is the SDK path once the session has an API key.

Summary

CursorSkills
  folder skill roots          # existing picker scan
  plugins/local               # one-level children, stay inside the local root
  cache/<mkt>/<plugin>/<sha>  # include only when exactly one .cache-complete exists
    plugin.json skills        # a SKILL.md file, or immediate children of a directory
    default skills/ + root    # when the manifest has no skills field

Folder skills still win on name. A SKILL.md whose real path leaves the plugin is skipped. Invocation name stays the directory basename. Manifest reads and plugin listings use the same byte and entry scan budget as folder skills.

Evidence

• Before: discoverCursorSkills returned only folder skills. A plugin skill such as figma-use was absent, and $figma-use stayed literal.
  After: vp test run apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CursorSkills.test.ts — 8 passed. Local plugins, one completed cache SHA, two completed SHAs skipped, manifest file and directory paths, an escaped SKILL.md symlink, and an oversized plugin.json are covered.

Merge Danger

Door: two-way

Discovery is read-only. Removing the scan restores the previous picker.

Blast Radius: composer

Only the Cursor $ picker and $name → /name rewrite change. The agent request path is untouched.

Model: Grok 4.7 through the Cursor harness in T3 Code.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a substantial new production capability for discovering Cursor plugin skills, including manifest parsing and cache/plugin filesystem traversal, which changes existing picker and snapshot behavior. The new scan paths also carry unresolved resource-budget risks around manifest size and directory iteration.

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Cursor skill discovery now scans local plugins and completed plugin-cache versions. It validates plugin skill paths against their roots and applies existing parsing, precedence, visibility, and scan-budget rules.

Changes

Cursor plugin skill discovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared skill reading apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CursorSkills.ts	A shared helper reads bounded skill files and can reject files outside a specified root. Existing root traversal uses this helper.
Plugin installation and manifest discovery apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CursorSkills.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CursorSkills.test.ts	Discovery reads manifest-selected skill paths or scans plugin skill directories. It includes local installs and cache plugins with exactly one completed version. Tests cover precedence, manifest paths, cache selection, path containment, visibility, mention rewriting, probing, oversized manifests, and symlinks.
Result ordering and scan-budget validation apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CursorSkills.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CursorSkills.test.ts	Inspection keeps the first skill found for each name and scans plugins while the shared budget remains. Tests verify discovery before scan exhaustion and failure after the budget is exhausted.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CursorSkills
  participant PluginFilesystem
  participant SkillReader
  CursorSkills->>PluginFilesystem: Enumerate local installs and completed cache versions
  CursorSkills->>PluginFilesystem: Read manifests or list plugin skill directories
  CursorSkills->>SkillReader: Read skill files within plugin roots
  SkillReader-->>CursorSkills: Return eligible skill metadata

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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 09763

The skill picker can show a root plugin skill that Cursor’s documented layout does not support. This is a limited discrepancy that can be corrected or explicitly accepted before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 09763

The change does not alter sign-in, credentials, or sandbox settings. Its main risks are incomplete filesystem containment for plugin manifests and accepting cached plugin names when version eligibility cannot be fully established. Exposure requires plugin-filesystem control; unauthorized execution or credential disclosure has not been established.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · observed: The new manifest-read path lacks plugin-root real-path containment. A supported plugin.json file, or its parent directory, can be a symlink outside the installation, causing the server to read external JSON under its filesystem authority. Size checks limit admitted reads, and declared skill targets remain containment-checked; this does not establish secret disclosure or out-of-root skill execution.
• Low · security · inferred: The single-completed-version rule counts successfully observed eligible versions, even when another version or marker check failed. Such errors mark discovery incomplete but do not prevent inspection of the one observed version. The adapter then caches partial names for command rewriting. This can promote a stale or ambiguous command identity; whether the SDK resolves or rejects that command is unverified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The established scope is plugin content under the server user's home, filesystem reads performed with server-process authority, and command-name rewriting in consuming Cursor sessions. Exploiting manifest indirection requires control over an installed plugin path; command-addressability effects additionally require a matching user mention. Wider tenant exposure or gained execution privileges are not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — A plugin-controlled manifest symlink can direct a new JSON read outside the plugin root and supply selection metadata. Only the skills field influences selection, and its declared targets undergo separate containment checks. The inspected flow does not establish an external-file content export or an out-of-root execution sink.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Local plugin directories must resolve beneath the local root, selected cache versions beneath the cache root, and declared skill targets and skill files beneath the plugin root. Test assertions cover outside-root local installs, skill-file symlinks, and cache-version symlinks; they were inspected rather than executed.
• observed — The adapter's optional API key, plugin setting source, and runtime-policy-derived sandbox configuration are unchanged by the full PR comparison. Filesystem discovery adds recognized names but does not modify those authority settings. Independent SDK catalog enforcement remains unverified.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Non-NotFound filesystem errors mark a scan incomplete. The strict probe reports that failure, while ordinary discovery returns collected skills and the adapter caches their invocable names. This preserves partial availability but does not preserve proof of unique cache eligibility.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Apply plugin-root containment to manifest reads, require a complete per-plugin version observation before asserting unique cache eligibility, and distinguish unread invocation metadata from affirmative eligibility. Where the SDK exposes a catalog, reconcile discovered names with that catalog before treating them as commands.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	Issue #16408 requires plugin skills in the composer picker and agent catalog, plus $skill-name to /skill-name. CursorSkills.ts adds local and uniquely completed-cache discovery for the picker, a…	Meet and test issue #16408's agent-catalog requirement for enabled plugin skills that remain absent, including team marketplaces outside cursor-public and unsigned sessions.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The CursorSkills.ts discovery changes and CursorSkills.test.ts tests support issue #16408's picker and invocation requirements. Manifest handling, cache selection, scan budgets, and path-containme…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: adding Cursor plugin skills to the composer picker. It is concise and uses a conventional commit format.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, the change, its scope, and focused test results. It also links the issue and maintainer discussion. Although it does not use the template headings, it provides th…

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Explanation

Issue #16408 requires plugin skills in the composer picker and agent catalog, plus $skill-name to /skill-name. CursorSkills.ts adds local and uniquely completed-cache discovery for the picker, and CursorSkills.test.ts covers discovery and rewriting. The PR description says the SDK supplies catalog skills for signed-in sessions with an API key. It also says team marketplaces outside cursor-public and unsigned sessions still lack plugin skills in the catalog. The agent-catalog requirement therefore remains unmet for those cases.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CursorSkills.ts:
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