Merlin Brain for Cursor IDE

The Ultimate AI Brain for Cursor IDE - supercharge your AI coding assistant with instant codebase understanding and structured workflows.

Quick Install

``bash
npx create-merlin-cursor
`

What You Get

$3


Instant codebase context via MCP tools:
- merlin_get_context - Task-based context
- merlin_search - Find anything in your codebase
- merlin_find_files - Locate files by purpose
- merlin_quickstart - Project overview
- merlin_get_conventions - Coding patterns

$3

Pre-configured agents for specific tasks:
- merlin-executor - Task execution
- merlin-researcher - Research & analysis
- merlin-reviewer - Code review specialist
- merlin-security - OWASP security audits
- merlin-performance - Performance optimization
- merlin-frontend - React/Vue/accessibility
- merlin-api-designer - REST/GraphQL design
- merlin-migrator - Database migrations
- merlin-codebase-mapper - Codebase analysis

$3

Structured patterns for:
- Project initialization
- Roadmap creation
- Phase planning & execution
- Milestone management

Works With or Without Sights

- With Merlin Sights: Instant context, cross-session memory, team knowledge sharing
- Without: Full workflow patterns, uses file exploration (slightly slower)

Get your Sights API key at merlin.build

Installation Details

The installer will:
1. Clean up any legacy GSD installations
2. Install workflows to ~/.cursor/merlin/
3. Install agents to ~/.cursor/agents/
4. Create/update ~/.cursorrules`
5. Optionally configure Merlin Sights MCP

Usage in Cursor

Once installed, Cursor's AI will automatically use the Merlin brain. You can:

1. Reference agents: "Use the merlin-security agent to audit this code"
2. Reference workflows: "Follow the phase planning workflow"
3. Get instant context (with Sights): AI automatically queries Merlin for codebase context

Also Available

- create-merlin-brain - For Claude Code CLI

License

MIT

Links

- Documentation
- GitHub