Connecting Cursor to Dailybot

Cursor is an AI-powered code editor with built-in agent capabilities. You chat, plan, and ship inside the editor while the agent edits files, runs commands, and follows your repo’s rules. That work is easy to miss on Slack or in standup because it happens inside your machine. Connecting Cursor to Dailybot closes that gap: when Cursor finishes meaningful tasks, your team sees concise updates in the same feed as human check-ins.

Why connect Cursor to Dailybot

Invisible agent work is a real coordination problem. Managers and teammates want to know what shipped, what broke, and what is in progress without opening every branch or transcript. Dailybot turns agent output into standup-ready signals. Cursor keeps building; Dailybot makes the outcome visible on a predictable rhythm your team already uses.

What you set up

The setup has three parts: the CLI in Cursor’s terminal, a reporter script in the project, and agent rules that tell Cursor when to report.

Install the Dailybot CLI in the environment where you use Cursor (local machine, devcontainer, or remote host). From the integrated terminal, run the global install your team standardizes on (for example npm install -g @dailybot/cli), then confirm with dailybot --version. If the editor runs in a container, bake the same install into your image or postCreateCommand so it survives rebuilds.

Authenticate with dailybot login and your email, or set DAILYBOT_API_KEY when interactive login is awkward. The CLI needs a valid session or key before any report succeeds.

Add the reporter script to the repository, typically under agent_scripts/, matching whatever your organization already uses for other agents. The script wraps the message, injects repo and branch metadata, and posts to the Dailybot API. Commit it so every clone of the project has the same entry point.

Configure Cursor’s agent rules in .cursorrules at the project root (or the path your team uses for Cursor). This file is where Cursor picks up standing instructions. Add a clear block that defines when to report (for example after a feature ships, a bug is fixed, or a multi-step refactor completes) and when not to (typos, formatting-only changes, dependency bumps). Include the exact bash invocation the agent should run, including --metadata with a model field so reports stay attributable.

If your repo already documents the same policy in AGENTS.md for humans, keep wording aligned so Cursor and other tools do not contradict each other.

What reports look like

Reports read like mini standups: one to three sentences in English describing what changed and why it matters for the team. Metadata carries context (repository, branch, model identifier) without pasting full diffs. That keeps the feed scannable and respectful of noise limits you define in .cursorrules.

How this compares to Claude Code

Claude Code is guided by files such as CLAUDE.md and project docs it loads by convention. Cursor’s first-class hook for editor-native agents is .cursorrules. The mechanics otherwise line up: same CLI, same reporter script pattern, same idea of threshold-based reporting. When you onboard both tools in one repo, duplicate the reporting section into each instruction surface so neither agent guesses.

Once this is in place, Cursor’s work stops living only in local sessions. It shows up where your team already looks for progress, without extra copy-paste from you.