Using Cursor with git-ai

git-ai fully supports both authorship and prompt tracking for Cursor (IDE and CLI agent). To use git-ai with Cursor, just run git-ai install-hooks.

If you'd like to verify that Cursor has picked up your hooks:

1. Cmd+Shift+P to open Cursor command input
2. In the input box, type Output: Show Output Channels
3. From the dropdown, select or type Hooks
4. You should see in the logs a message like Loaded 2 user hook(s) for steps: afterFileEdit, beforeSubmitPrompt indicating that Cursor has loaded the hooks.

How it works

git-ai adds hooks to your user-level Cursor Settings ~/.cursor/hooks.json. These hooks automatically call git-ai before and after file edit tool calls to ensure accurate AI authorship tracking.

{
  "hooks": {
    "afterFileEdit": [
      {
        "command": "/absolute/path/to/git-ai checkpoint cursor --hook-input stdin"
      }
    ],
    "beforeSubmitPrompt": [
      {
        "command": "/absolute/path/to/git-ai checkpoint cursor --hook-input stdin"
      }
    ]
  },
  "version": 1
}