Kobiton for Cursor IDE

Kobiton for Cursor IDE connects the Cursor desktop editor to the Kobiton mobile testing platform. Install the plugin from the built-in plugin browser, then manage devices, run automation tests, and review session results using natural language in the editor.

Overview

The plugin installs the bundled skills, the kobiton MCP server, and the plugin commands. After authentication, Kobiton tools are available in Cursor IDE.

For a full list of available tools and capabilities, see the Kobiton AI plugin and tools reference.

Before you begin

To use Kobiton for Cursor IDE, you need:

  • A Kobiton account

  • Cursor IDE installed on your machine

Install the plugin

These instructions apply to Cloud only. Standalone and Cloud with custom domain instructions are coming soon.

  1. Open Cursor Settings > Plugins.

  2. Paste https://github.com/kobiton/automate into the search box.

  3. Select the automate result.

  4. Click Add to Cursor, then click Install.

Cursor IDE and Cursor CLI share plugin installs. A plugin installed from Cursor IDE appears in the agent CLI, and a plugin installed from agent appears in Cursor IDE. Install the plugin once. Installing it in both registers the skills, commands, and MCP server twice.

To set up Cursor CLI instead, see Kobiton for Cursor CLI.

Authenticate

  1. Open Cursor Settings > Tool & MCPs.

  2. Search for kobiton.

  3. Click Authenticate.

  4. A browser window opens. Sign in with your Kobiton credentials.

Cursor stores OAuth tokens in the operating system keychain. After authentication, Kobiton tools are available in Cursor IDE.

Set up credentials and CLI wrapper

After the first sign-in, run setup once to fetch your credentials and install the CLI wrapper used by the run-interactive-session skill:

/setup

Cursor registers plugin commands without a namespace prefix, so the plugin setup and diagnostic commands appear as /setup and /doctor. Select the entry with the Kobiton description to tell them apart from Cursor’s built-in commands of the same name.

To verify the configuration:

/doctor

Common workflows

Cursor IDE supports the same mobile testing workflows as Cursor CLI:

  • Device management: view availability, check status, reserve and release devices

  • App management: upload Android and iOS apps, view uploaded apps

  • Test execution: run local Appium scripts through the run-automation-suite workflow

  • Session management: view sessions, retrieve logs, screenshots, and videos

Limitations

The run-interactive-session skill ships a CLI binary for macOS only. On Linux and Windows, use run-automation-suite or the Kobiton MCP tools directly.

Additional resources