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Drop a .cursorrules file into your project root and Cursor will know to delegate research and deliverable-generation tasks to the Spine API.

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Install

curl -o .cursorrules \
  https://docs.getspine.ai/static/agent-files/.cursorrules

Download .cursorrules

.cursorrules — drop into your project root

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Set your API key

Add to your shell profile or Cursor’s environment: 
export SPINE_API_KEY="sk_spine_..."
Create a key at platform.getspine.ai/keys.

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What it does

The .cursorrules file teaches Cursor’s agent:
  1. When to use Spine — research, reports, decks, spreadsheets, competitive analyses
  2. The API pattern — POST /v1/run → poll GET /v1/run/{run_id}
  3. Available templates and which to pick for each output type
  4. How to surface results — final_output + artifact download URLs

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Example

You: Compile a competitive analysis of the top 5 AI coding assistants

Cursor: I'll delegate this to Spine using the deep_research template.

[Calling POST /v1/run...]
[Polling... completed in 11m 18s]

Here are the results:
- Competitive analysis (full text below)
- Download: Competitive_Analysis.docx → https://...
- Credits used: 26

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Combining with other rules

If you already have a .cursorrules, append the Spine rules at the end: 
curl -s https://docs.getspine.ai/static/agent-files/.cursorrules >> .cursorrules