Explore Tools for Cursor
Enhance your Cursor workflow with a practical set of development tools. This guide covers useful extensions, libraries, and plugins that can support focused work in Cursor.
Useful Tools for Cursor Developers
We've curated a list of essential tools for anyone working with Cursor.
- Code linters and formatters for clean code.
- Browser extensions for on-the-fly generation.
- Version control integration for seamless collaboration.
- Performance monitoring and optimization tools.
Integrating Tools with Cursor using PromptDC
PromptDC helps you write clearer prompts while you use your chosen tools in Cursor.
Give Cursor chat and its terminal separate coverage
A useful Cursor toolkit can include the PromptDC IDE extension for requests written in the AI chat control. Because that build acts on selected text in the focused control, make sure chat, rather than a source file, is active. PromptDC Desktop covers selected prompts for terminal agents and can also rewrite text in other apps on the machine.
Works in Cursor, every IDE and terminal
The PromptDC desktop app for macOS and Windows enhances selected text in Cursor, every browser, IDE chat panel, desktop AI app and terminal. Use Cmd+Shift+E or Ctrl+Shift+E to open an editable review, then Replace or Copy.
PromptDC is the first desktop app to enhance prompts inside terminal CLIs, including Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Grok, Agy and OpenCode. Choose the Code profile for implementation-ready prompts, and set it as the default profile for each coding app or terminal.
The Chrome extension and IDE extensions are optional. Chrome adds in-place rewriting without Accessibility permission, while IDE extensions add a target-agent picker and Simple or Structured output; the desktop app already covers browser fields, IDE chats and terminals.
