Install for Cursor

Add Patina to Cursor so your agent can fetch playbooks and context docs.

Adding Patina to Cursor gives your AI coding assistant access to your team's approved workflows and business context. Your code reviews, documentation, and generation tasks all benefit from shared team knowledge.

Prerequisites

• A Patina account — sign up free if you don't have one
• Cursor installed — download from cursor.com

Get your credentials

Sign in to Patina, open Settings, and copy your User ID and Workspace ID. You'll need both values in the next step.

Add the MCP server config

Cursor reads MCP configuration from a file in your project root. Create a file called .cursor/mcp.json with the following content.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "patina": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "patina-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "PATINA_API_URL": "https://patina.so",
        "PATINA_USER_ID": "your-user-id",
        "PATINA_WORKSPACE_ID": "your-workspace-id"
      }
    }
  }
}

Replace your-user-id and your-workspace-id with the values you copied from Settings.

Verify it works

Open Cursor's AI chat and ask:

List my Patina playbooks

Cursor should respond with the playbooks from your workspace. If it does, you're all set.

Troubleshooting

"No MCP servers found"

Make sure the JSON in your config file is valid — a missing comma or bracket will cause the file to be ignored. You can check it with a free JSON validator like jsonlint.com.

"PATINA_USER_ID is not set"

Double-check that you replaced the placeholder values with your actual IDs from Settings.

Cursor doesn't mention Patina

Restart Cursor after creating or editing the config file — changes to MCP settings aren't picked up until the editor restarts.

List my Patina playbooks