Elastic and Cursor partner to accelerate context engineering with coding agents

Elastic is thrilled to announce a deeper partnership with Cursor, the leading AI coding platform for building software with agents. Elastic is the context backbone that those agents call into, providing real‑time observability, security, and search data drawn from production systems at scale. Together, Cursor and Elastic are partnering to bring context engineering directly into the agentic development platform, so coding agents can go beyond repository awareness and ground every suggestion, refactor, and fix in live operational data. With the new Elastic plugin on the Cursor Marketplace, developers no longer need to leave their editor to query logs, triage alerts, or look up Elasticsearch syntax — Cursor handles it natively, as part of the coding workflow.

Reliable, trustworthy AI starts with context engineering, the practice of building systems that give AI agents the precise, grounded information and tools they need to complete complex tasks accurately. Elasticsearch connects data, retrieval, tools, and memory — the essential components that enable models to learn, reason, and act from the right information.

But context engineering doesn't end at the data layer. Inside Cursor, it shows up as a continuous loop: An agent reads code, runs tests, observes logs, surfaces alerts, and proposes fixes all without leaving the editor. Rather than a single retrieval augmented generation (RAG) query that returns a static answer, Cursor's harness efficiently orchestrates which tools agents invoke and when, including Elastic skills, linters, test runners, repo search, based on what the task actually demands.

Elastic's new plugin on the Cursor Marketplace brings these two halves together. It packages Elastic's platform expertise as first-class Agent Skills and a built-in Elastic Docs MCP server, removing the architectural friction of separate, disconnected platforms. Cursor can now discover and invoke Elastic's data-aware tools on demand:

• Search: Semantic hybrid search over private knowledge bases directly from the editor.
• Query: Execute ES|QL queries against live production data mid-workflow.
• Observe: Manage and surface Kibana dashboards when a build fails or a test breaks.
• Secure: Triage security alerts and propose fixes grounded in the alert data that triggered them.

The result: Engineering teams get an agent that sees code and production reality in a single workspace, accelerating product innovation, reducing operational toil, and enabling more robust AI solutions at scale.

The plugin bundles two complementary capabilities to deliver a fully context-engineered development experience.

1. Open source Elastic Agent Skills: Covers Elasticsearch APIs, Kibana, Elastic Observability, Elastic Security, and Elastic Cloud. Give the Cursor agent the same architectural standards and best practices used by Elastic's own engineering teams. These skills allow Cursor's agent to securely invoke custom, private data tools, such as semantic search, analysis of observability logs, and querying of security alerts — all governed by Elasticsearch's granular role-based access controls and field-level security.

   Built on the open agentskills.io specification and released under the Apache 2.0 license, these skills are composable and modular by design: The ES|QL skill activates when writing queries, the dashboards skill picks up when visualizing results, and the triage skill chains into case management workflows when investigating a security alert.

2. The Elastic Docs MCP server: Allows Cursor's agent to interact with Elastic documentation directly

With Elastic's plugin now available on the Cursor Marketplace, developers and engineering leaders evaluating how to build production-grade AI applications can go from a natural language request to a precise, verified answer drawn from their own private data, all without ever leaving the code editor. Bring Elastic expertise into your agent runtime with the Elastic plugin directly from the Cursor Marketplace or run npx skills add elastic/agent-skills in your terminal.

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