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I love Cursor, but it feels like a ticking time bomb with extensions not being updated at the same rate as VSCode. Also another issue I am starting to see is t

I love Cursor, but it feels like a ticking time bomb with extensions not being updated at the same rate as VSCode. Also another issue I am starting to see is the lack of shared MCP servers. If I have VSCode, Cursor, and Claude open, each one is running its own instance of the MCP server. You can imagine that with a dozen or so MCP's, the memory footprint becomes quite large for no reason.

tevlon 1y ago
That's why i use Docker MCP Catalog. One MCP Server to rule them all. more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2L4U7Xq6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2L4U7Xq6g
- deleted 1y ago
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- greymalik 1y ago
  Here’s an alternate link if you prefer to read text instead of watching a 6 minute video: https://docs.docker.com/ai/mcp-catalog-and-toolkit/catalog/ https://docs.docker.com/ai/mcp-catalog-and-toolkit/catalog/
- xyc 1y ago
  I recently discovered toolhive which is pretty handy too https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive
- manorek 1y ago
  I don't understand. Is this meant to run locally? Because I tried to deploy my agent using GitHub MCP server to K8s. I can't ask my agent to run docker command in a pod.
- tuananh 1y ago
  I wrote my own tool for that too :D https://github.com/tuananh/hyper-mcp https://github.com/tuananh/hyper-mcp it's a MCP server with WASM plugin system, packaged, signed & published via OCI registry.
mmasu 1y ago
why would you open 3 IDEs all at once :-)
nsingh2 1y ago
Cursor and other VSCode forks connect to Open VSX [1] for extensions. Barring some of the Microsoft extensions, I've found that pretty much all the extensions I use are available and kept up to date on Open VSX. Cursor seems to have enough funding to support their own variants of the Microsoft extensions, like Python and C++. The one issue I've run into is that the VSCode version Cursor uses is several months old, so we're stuck using older extensions until they update. [1] https://open-vsx.org/ https://open-vsx.org/
- artdigital 1y ago
  You can change it back to use the normal Microsoft marketplace
  - sroussey 1y ago
    How?
    - artdigital 1y ago
      Add a `product.json` and set the extension gallery URL through that ``` { "extensionsGallery": { "serviceUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery", "itemUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items", "cacheUrl": "https://vscode.blob.core.windows.net/gallery/index https://vscode.blob.core.windows.net/gallery/index", } } ``` https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/2195 https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/2195 This is technically against the ToS of the extension gallery though
TechDebtDevin 1y ago
Just run it on http
- vFunct 1y ago
  this is the way. STDIO MCP is really just a quick hack.
nojs 1y ago
It’s more of a ticking time bomb because it relies so heavily on upstream model providers who all have competing products, particularly Claude Code.
- Aeolun 1y ago
  Until Claude Code becomes manageable price wise, I don’t think Cursor really sees them as their competition. I can burn the whole cursor subscription price in a single day with Claude Code.
  - myth_drannon 1y ago
    They just announced Claude Code will come with the pro subscription ($20)
    - falcor84 1y ago
      Interesting, but the limit is really low: > Pro ($20/month): Average users can send approximately 45 messages with Claude every 5 hours, OR send approximately 10-40 prompts with Claude Code every 5 hours. [0] I can probably run through that in 5 minutes. [0] https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-claude-code-with-your-pro-or-max-plan https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-cla...
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      - ghiculescu 1y ago
        I’ve been running on this plan all morning (Australia time). Amazing value.
  - vunderba 1y ago
    Yeah, if you're a heavy user of Claude code, you pretty much need to use it with a Max subscription rather than a BYOK approach. But that starts at $100 / month so it's a significant bump from cursor.
MuffinFlavored 1y ago
> If I have VSCode, Cursor, and Claude open This is good user feedback. If Cursor is "Claude + VSCode", why do you need the other 2 open?
- cmrx64 1y ago
  for me, I’ll keep doing work on the codebase in a separate vscode while Cursor’s agent is wiling away at it, so as to not be distracted or interrupted by the agent activity in the corner of my screen. and then i’ll have a claude or aistudio tab open doing bigger analysis or planning tasks, reading papers together, etc.
  - MuffinFlavored 1y ago
    What would you say to somebody who doesn't trust Cursor to "take the reigns off" and go "agent mode" and do such large changes? Even with "checking/approving/having the final say" as a user, I feel there is time lost if the AI does not do the changes the right way/makes small pesky mistakes. Autocomplete: yes Asking questions: yes I know everybody is all into agent mode and it isn't a Cursor specific thing, I'm just confused why everybody is into it.
    - cmrx64 1y ago
      I just accept that when I return to the Cursor window, it is going to have made some mistakes and I’m going to have to spend some time fixing things. I agree it’s a delicate balance, and sometimes it feels more like I’m exploring methods of steering the AI than I am doing anything about the code. my usecases have been building relatively self-contained, well-specified components of distributed systems out of academic papers and my own design notes / prototype skeletons, in rust. there’s a lot of context for the agent to ground against, and it can blow out ideas into their implications relatively well ime. the experience of fixing up lots of pesky mistakes that you yourself would never make is kinda annoying.
tuananh 1y ago
Just use other transport like streamable http. i wrote a MCP with plugin system where you only need to run 1 instance and add plugins via config file. https://github.com/tuananh/hyper-mcp https://github.com/tuananh/hyper-mcp
SkyPuncher 1y ago
I just run two IDEs. Cursor is essentially only the wrapper for running agents. I still do my heavy lifting in Jetbrains products. It actually works out well because I can let Cursor iterate on a task while I review/tweak code.
- etoxin 1y ago
  Same here, everyday coding in Webstorm, Oh I have a task I can offload to copilot, I open VSCode and let a Github CoPilot Agent do that. Knowing what tools are better for what really helps.
  - rpwverheij 1y ago
    have you tried the CoPilot agent tab in Github copilot chat in Webstorm? I wonder if/why you find using it through VSCode better in any way then using it directly in WebStorm.
- insane_dreamer 1y ago
  I use the Claude Code plugin in PyCharm in the same way.
- brabel 1y ago
  Have you tried the Jetbrains agent, I think it’s called Jennie? I am trying it right now and it seems decent enough but I haven’t tried Cursor as I don’t really like vs code.
  - okinok 1y ago
    Jetbrains Junie is pretty good and comparable to Cursor in my experience. And since it is already included in my Jetbrains license, I have had no need for Cursor.
    - sieabahlpark 1y ago
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elAhmo 1y ago
TIL that it doesn't have the same extensions as VSCode. I thought they share the same directory.
- hn_throw2025 1y ago
  This is only effectively a problem for a handful of MS vendored extensions.
jlowin 1y ago
One of the first features we added to FastMCP 2.0 [1] was server composition and proxying (plus some niceties around trying to reuse servers whenever possible) for exactly this reason, so that you can ideally run a single instance of your preferred servers without replicating the setup over every application. In some ways, MCP standardized how agents talk to APIs but introduced a new frontier of lawless distribution! This is something that has to improve. [1]: https://gofastmcp.com https://gofastmcp.com
TranquilMarmot 1y ago
What are you using MCP for? We recently launched Zapier MCP, we host the servers for you: https://zapier.com/mcp https://zapier.com/mcp

tevlon 1y ago

That's why i use Docker MCP Catalog. One MCP Server to rule them all. more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2L4U7Xq6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2L4U7Xq6g

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greymalik 1y ago
Here’s an alternate link if you prefer to read text instead of watching a 6 minute video: https://docs.docker.com/ai/mcp-catalog-and-toolkit/catalog/ https://docs.docker.com/ai/mcp-catalog-and-toolkit/catalog/
xyc 1y ago
I recently discovered toolhive which is pretty handy too https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive
manorek 1y ago
I don't understand. Is this meant to run locally? Because I tried to deploy my agent using GitHub MCP server to K8s. I can't ask my agent to run docker command in a pod.
tuananh 1y ago
I wrote my own tool for that too :D https://github.com/tuananh/hyper-mcp https://github.com/tuananh/hyper-mcp it's a MCP server with WASM plugin system, packaged, signed & published via OCI registry.

mmasu 1y ago

why would you open 3 IDEs all at once :-)

nsingh2 1y ago

Cursor and other VSCode forks connect to Open VSX [1] for extensions. Barring some of the Microsoft extensions, I've found that pretty much all the extensions I use are available and kept up to date on Open VSX. Cursor seems to have enough funding to support their own variants of the Microsoft extensions, like Python and C++. The one issue I've run into is that the VSCode version Cursor uses is several months old, so we're stuck using older extensions until they update. [1] https://open-vsx.org/ https://open-vsx.org/

artdigital 1y ago
You can change it back to use the normal Microsoft marketplace
- sroussey 1y ago
  How?
  - artdigital 1y ago
    Add a `product.json` and set the extension gallery URL through that ``` { "extensionsGallery": { "serviceUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery", "itemUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items", "cacheUrl": "https://vscode.blob.core.windows.net/gallery/index https://vscode.blob.core.windows.net/gallery/index", } } ``` https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/2195 https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/2195 This is technically against the ToS of the extension gallery though

TechDebtDevin 1y ago

Just run it on http

vFunct 1y ago
this is the way. STDIO MCP is really just a quick hack.

nojs 1y ago

It’s more of a ticking time bomb because it relies so heavily on upstream model providers who all have competing products, particularly Claude Code.

Aeolun 1y ago
Until Claude Code becomes manageable price wise, I don’t think Cursor really sees them as their competition. I can burn the whole cursor subscription price in a single day with Claude Code.
- myth_drannon 1y ago
  They just announced Claude Code will come with the pro subscription ($20)
  - falcor84 1y ago
    Interesting, but the limit is really low: > Pro ($20/month): Average users can send approximately 45 messages with Claude every 5 hours, OR send approximately 10-40 prompts with Claude Code every 5 hours. [0] I can probably run through that in 5 minutes. [0] https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-claude-code-with-your-pro-or-max-plan https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-cla...
    - deleted 1y ago
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    - ghiculescu 1y ago
      I’ve been running on this plan all morning (Australia time). Amazing value.
- vunderba 1y ago
  Yeah, if you're a heavy user of Claude code, you pretty much need to use it with a Max subscription rather than a BYOK approach. But that starts at $100 / month so it's a significant bump from cursor.

MuffinFlavored 1y ago

> If I have VSCode, Cursor, and Claude open This is good user feedback. If Cursor is "Claude + VSCode", why do you need the other 2 open?

cmrx64 1y ago
for me, I’ll keep doing work on the codebase in a separate vscode while Cursor’s agent is wiling away at it, so as to not be distracted or interrupted by the agent activity in the corner of my screen. and then i’ll have a claude or aistudio tab open doing bigger analysis or planning tasks, reading papers together, etc.
- MuffinFlavored 1y ago
  What would you say to somebody who doesn't trust Cursor to "take the reigns off" and go "agent mode" and do such large changes? Even with "checking/approving/having the final say" as a user, I feel there is time lost if the AI does not do the changes the right way/makes small pesky mistakes. Autocomplete: yes Asking questions: yes I know everybody is all into agent mode and it isn't a Cursor specific thing, I'm just confused why everybody is into it.
  - cmrx64 1y ago
    I just accept that when I return to the Cursor window, it is going to have made some mistakes and I’m going to have to spend some time fixing things. I agree it’s a delicate balance, and sometimes it feels more like I’m exploring methods of steering the AI than I am doing anything about the code. my usecases have been building relatively self-contained, well-specified components of distributed systems out of academic papers and my own design notes / prototype skeletons, in rust. there’s a lot of context for the agent to ground against, and it can blow out ideas into their implications relatively well ime. the experience of fixing up lots of pesky mistakes that you yourself would never make is kinda annoying.

tuananh 1y ago

Just use other transport like streamable http. i wrote a MCP with plugin system where you only need to run 1 instance and add plugins via config file. https://github.com/tuananh/hyper-mcp https://github.com/tuananh/hyper-mcp

SkyPuncher 1y ago

I just run two IDEs. Cursor is essentially only the wrapper for running agents. I still do my heavy lifting in Jetbrains products. It actually works out well because I can let Cursor iterate on a task while I review/tweak code.

etoxin 1y ago
Same here, everyday coding in Webstorm, Oh I have a task I can offload to copilot, I open VSCode and let a Github CoPilot Agent do that. Knowing what tools are better for what really helps.
- rpwverheij 1y ago
  have you tried the CoPilot agent tab in Github copilot chat in Webstorm? I wonder if/why you find using it through VSCode better in any way then using it directly in WebStorm.
insane_dreamer 1y ago
I use the Claude Code plugin in PyCharm in the same way.
brabel 1y ago
Have you tried the Jetbrains agent, I think it’s called Jennie? I am trying it right now and it seems decent enough but I haven’t tried Cursor as I don’t really like vs code.
- okinok 1y ago
  Jetbrains Junie is pretty good and comparable to Cursor in my experience. And since it is already included in my Jetbrains license, I have had no need for Cursor.
  - sieabahlpark 1y ago
    [dead]

elAhmo 1y ago

TIL that it doesn't have the same extensions as VSCode. I thought they share the same directory.

hn_throw2025 1y ago
This is only effectively a problem for a handful of MS vendored extensions.

jlowin 1y ago

One of the first features we added to FastMCP 2.0 [1] was server composition and proxying (plus some niceties around trying to reuse servers whenever possible) for exactly this reason, so that you can ideally run a single instance of your preferred servers without replicating the setup over every application. In some ways, MCP standardized how agents talk to APIs but introduced a new frontier of lawless distribution! This is something that has to improve. [1]: https://gofastmcp.com https://gofastmcp.com

TranquilMarmot 1y ago

What are you using MCP for? We recently launched Zapier MCP, we host the servers for you: https://zapier.com/mcp https://zapier.com/mcp