supermemory/apps/docs/integrations/cursor.mdx

---
title: "Cursor"
sidebarTitle: "Cursor"
description: "cursor-supermemory: persistent memory across your Cursor chats"
icon: "/images/cursor-logo.svg"
---

Your agent remembers the decisions, bugs, and conventions from earlier chats instead of starting cold every time.

## Install

<Note>
Requires [Node.js](https://nodejs.org) on your `PATH`. Installing Cursor does not put one there.
</Note>

Run this in Cursor:

```
/add-plugin cursor-supermemory
```

Or install it from the [Cursor Marketplace](https://cursor.com/marketplace/supermemory): open **Customize**, find **Supermemory**, select **Install**, and choose **project** or **user** scope.

Restart Cursor or run **Developer: Reload Window** afterwards.

## Authenticate

Open a new chat in Cursor and run:

```
/supermemory-setup
```

A browser window opens. Sign in to Supermemory and you are done.

As a fallback, set an API key from [API Keys](https://console.supermemory.ai/keys):

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="macOS / Linux (zsh)">
    ```bash
    echo 'export SUPERMEMORY_API_KEY="sm_..."' >> ~/.zshrc
    source ~/.zshrc
    ```
  </Tab>
  <Tab title="macOS / Linux (bash)">
    ```bash
    echo 'export SUPERMEMORY_API_KEY="sm_..."' >> ~/.bashrc
    source ~/.bashrc
    ```
  </Tab>
  <Tab title="Windows (PowerShell)">
    ```powershell
    [System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("SUPERMEMORY_API_KEY", "sm_...", "User")
    ```
    Restart your terminal after running this.
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

Restart Cursor after installing the plugin or changing credentials.

Check the connection any time with `/supermemory-status`.

<Accordion title="Prefer the terminal?" icon="terminal">
The slash commands just run the plugin's CLI for you. To drive it yourself:

```bash
node "${CURSOR_PLUGIN_ROOT}/dist/cli.js" login
node "${CURSOR_PLUGIN_ROOT}/dist/cli.js" status
node "${CURSOR_PLUGIN_ROOT}/dist/cli.js" logout
```

`CURSOR_PLUGIN_ROOT` is set for plugin hooks. If it is empty in your shell, run `node dist/cli.js <command>` from the installed plugin directory.

Credentials are stored in `~/.supermemory-cursor/credentials.json`.
</Accordion>

## How It Works

| Layer | What it does |
|-------|--------------|
| Session profile | Loads your persistent profile when a Cursor conversation starts |
| Automatic recall | Searches on substantive prompts, deduplicates results, and injects them after the first supported tool result |
| Incremental capture | Saves each completed turn, and retries unsaved transcript deltas at session end |
| MCP tools | Explicit memory control from any Cursor AI session |
| Context gatherer | Fans out targeted searches before substantial work |
| Always-on rule | Makes the agent recall relevant history proactively |

### Skills and Commands

| Name | Type | Description |
|------|------|-------------|
| `memory-init` | Skill | Explore the codebase and initialize project memory |
| `memory-save` | Skill | Save an insight, decision, or solution worth keeping |
| `memory-search` | Skill | Search memory for past work, bugs, and decisions |
| `supermemory-context-gatherer` | Agent | Gather deep background before substantial work |
| `supermemory-setup` | Command | Connect Supermemory to Cursor |
| `supermemory-status` | Command | Check authentication and live connectivity |
| `supermemory-config` | Command | Create or edit the project config file |
| `supermemory-logout` | Command | Disconnect Supermemory from Cursor |

## MCP Tools

| Tool | Description |
|------|-------------|
| `supermemory_get_config` | Show current config, resolved container tags, and config file paths |
| `supermemory_set_config` | Update config at project or global scope |
| `supermemory_containers` | Show what `user` and `project` container tags resolve to |
| `supermemory_search` | Search memories by query |
| `supermemory_add` | Save new information to memory |
| `supermemory_list` | List stored memories |
| `supermemory_forget` | Delete a memory by id or content |
| `supermemory_profile` | Get your user profile summary |

Every tool that takes a `container` argument accepts:

- `"user"` (default): personal memories for the current repository
- `"project"`: project knowledge for the current repository
- `"both"`: both scopes plus compatible legacy memories
- any custom string: used as a raw container tag

`user` and `project` write to the same repository container. The `sm_scope` metadata field is what keeps personal and session memories separate from explicit project knowledge when an agent asks for one scope.

## Container Tags

Cursor shares one repository tag with the [Claude Code](/integrations/claude-code), [OpenAI Codex](/integrations/codex), and [OpenCode](/integrations/opencode) plugins, so agents working on the same repo read and write the same memory:

```text
repo_<project_name>__<project_id>
```

The project ID is a stable hash of the normalized Git remote. Repositories without a remote fall back to their resolved local path. Two repos with the same directory name never collide, and different agents on the same repository share memory.

The plugin still reads the former `cursor_user_*` and `cursor_project_*` tags, along with legacy tags from the other agents. New writes only use the unified repository tag. Set `repoContainerTag` only when you need an explicit shared override.

## Configuration

<Tip>
**Prefer to keep everything on your machine?** This plugin works with [self-hosted Supermemory](/self-hosting/overview): run `npx supermemory local`, then set `SUPERMEMORY_API_URL="http://localhost:6767"` (or `baseUrl` in your config file) and use the API key printed on first boot.
</Tip>

### Environment variables

| Variable | Description |
|----------|-------------|
| `SUPERMEMORY_API_KEY` | API key (overrides all other sources) |
| `SUPERMEMORY_API_URL` | Override the Supermemory API base URL |
| `SUPERMEMORY_REPO_TAG` | Override the unified repository container tag |
| `SUPERMEMORY_USER_TAG` | Legacy Cursor personal container to continue reading |
| `SUPERMEMORY_PROJECT_TAG` | Legacy Cursor project container to continue reading |
| `CURSOR_USER_EMAIL` | Used only to find legacy Cursor personal memories |

### Global config

`~/.config/cursor/supermemory.json` holds user-wide defaults and applies to all projects.

```json
{
  "repoContainerTag": "repo_my_project__0123456789abcdef",
  "similarityThreshold": 0.55,
  "maxMemories": 10,
  "injectProfile": true,
  "signalExtraction": false,
  "signalKeywords": ["remember", "architecture", "decision", "bug", "fix"],
  "signalTurnsBefore": 3
}
```

### Project config

`.cursor/.supermemory/config.json` holds per-workspace overrides and wins over global config. Add it to `.gitignore` if it contains an API key.

```json
{
  "apiKey": "sm_...",
  "repoContainerTag": "repo_my_project__0123456789abcdef",
  "similarityThreshold": 0.55,
  "maxMemories": 10,
  "injectProfile": true
}
```

| Option | Default | Description |
|--------|---------|-------------|
| `apiKey` | — | Project-specific API key |
| `baseUrl` | Supermemory API | Override the Supermemory API base URL |
| `repoContainerTag` | derived from normalized Git remote or project path | Override the unified repository container |
| `userContainerTag` | — | Legacy Cursor personal container to continue reading |
| `projectContainerTag` | — | Legacy Cursor project container to continue reading |
| `similarityThreshold` | `0.55` | Minimum similarity for prompt recall. Values below `0.55` are floored. |
| `maxMemories` | `10` | Max profile facts injected at session start |
| `injectProfile` | `true` | Whether to inject the user profile at session start |
| `signalExtraction` | `false` | Capture only turns containing durable-signal keywords |
| `signalKeywords` | `remember`, `architecture`, `decision`, `bug`, `fix` | Keywords that trigger signal-based capture |
| `signalTurnsBefore` | `3` | Number of nearby turns retained around a signal |

You can also set these from the agent with `supermemory_set_config`, or edit the file by hand.

## Log Out

Run `/supermemory-logout` in Cursor.

This removes the stored credentials. Your memories in Supermemory are preserved.

## Next Steps

<Card title="GitHub Repository" icon="/images/github-icon.svg" href="https://github.com/supermemoryai/cursor-supermemory">
  Source code, issues, and detailed README.
</Card>