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Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions by quietbritishjim on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:43PM (#50311626)
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.

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Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions by dannyw on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:05PM (#50312213)
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.

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Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions by stingraycharles on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:55PM (#50312503)
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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Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions by mike_d on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:16AM (#50313934)
Cursor is now Grok, so are you really surprised?
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