← Back to context Comment by john_strinlai 19 hours ago >the corporate laptopan anthropic laptop? why are you sketpical? 6 comments john_strinlai Reply quietbritishjim 12 hours ago I guess they're skeptical because it seems incredible that having access to Cursor's marketplace would allow you to publish updates to a different organisation's extensions.In fairness, that is very surprising. dannyw 11 hours ago Reading between the lines, it seems like Anthropic isn't involved in the "official by Anthropic" extension at all.Cursor seems to be scraping extensions from Microsoft's marketplace, and repackaging it and keeping the metadata. stingraycharles 10 hours ago Wow if that is the case… Cursor certainly needs to communicate much more clearly that Anthropic wasn’t involved in this at all. 1 reply → abirch 19 hours ago Exactly and why wouldn't the thieves publish to the official VS Code or Open VSX market places? crooked-v 15 hours ago Because what they had was some kind of admin access to Cursor's mirror of OpenVSX, and not anything else.
quietbritishjim 12 hours ago I guess they're skeptical because it seems incredible that having access to Cursor's marketplace would allow you to publish updates to a different organisation's extensions.In fairness, that is very surprising. dannyw 11 hours ago Reading between the lines, it seems like Anthropic isn't involved in the "official by Anthropic" extension at all.Cursor seems to be scraping extensions from Microsoft's marketplace, and repackaging it and keeping the metadata. stingraycharles 10 hours ago Wow if that is the case… Cursor certainly needs to communicate much more clearly that Anthropic wasn’t involved in this at all. 1 reply →
dannyw 11 hours ago Reading between the lines, it seems like Anthropic isn't involved in the "official by Anthropic" extension at all.Cursor seems to be scraping extensions from Microsoft's marketplace, and repackaging it and keeping the metadata. stingraycharles 10 hours ago Wow if that is the case… Cursor certainly needs to communicate much more clearly that Anthropic wasn’t involved in this at all. 1 reply →
stingraycharles 10 hours ago Wow if that is the case… Cursor certainly needs to communicate much more clearly that Anthropic wasn’t involved in this at all. 1 reply →
abirch 19 hours ago Exactly and why wouldn't the thieves publish to the official VS Code or Open VSX market places? crooked-v 15 hours ago Because what they had was some kind of admin access to Cursor's mirror of OpenVSX, and not anything else.
crooked-v 15 hours ago Because what they had was some kind of admin access to Cursor's mirror of OpenVSX, and not anything else.
I guess they're skeptical because it seems incredible that having access to Cursor's marketplace would allow you to publish updates to a different organisation's extensions.
In fairness, that is very surprising.
Reading between the lines, it seems like Anthropic isn't involved in the "official by Anthropic" extension at all.
Cursor seems to be scraping extensions from Microsoft's marketplace, and repackaging it and keeping the metadata.
Wow if that is the case… Cursor certainly needs to communicate much more clearly that Anthropic wasn’t involved in this at all.
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Exactly and why wouldn't the thieves publish to the official VS Code or Open VSX market places?
Because what they had was some kind of admin access to Cursor's mirror of OpenVSX, and not anything else.