Repurpose content without leaving Cursor

Setup guide

1. 01

   Get your Motif API key

   Sign up for Motif Starter ($29/mo) or Pro ($59/mo), then create an API key at Settings → API Keys in your dashboard. Copy it — you'll only see it once.

   # Your key looks like this:
   motif_k8x3...aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsTuVwXyZ

2. 02

   Add Motif to your Cursor MCP config

   Open Cursor Settings → MCP → Add new MCP server. Paste the config below (or edit .cursor/mcp.json directly).

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "motif": {
         "command": "npx",
         "args": ["-y", "@motif/mcp-server"],
         "env": {
           "MOTIF_API_KEY": "motif_YOUR_KEY_HERE"
         }
       }
     }
   }

3. 03

   Restart Cursor and verify

   Restart Cursor. You should see "motif" listed under available MCP tools in the Agent panel. If not, check the MCP logs (Settings → MCP → motif → View logs) for the connection error.

4. 04

   Use it from the agent

   Ask Cursor's agent to repurpose content. It will call the Motif tool directly — no shell-out, no copy-paste.

   # In Cursor's agent chat:
   "Use Motif to repurpose https://myblog.com/latest-post"
   
   # Or for text you have open:
   "Take the blog draft in this file and run it through Motif"
   
   # Cursor calls motif.repurpose → you get posts for
   # LinkedIn, X, Instagram, TikTok, email, and blog.

Why connect Cursor to Motif?

• Zero context switching

  Your editor is already open. No browser tab, no dashboard. The agent calls Motif, waits, and drops the posts into the conversation you're already having.

• Your voice, your code

  Motif trains on your writing samples, so posts match your voice. Use it to write your own social content from the tool you already use for everything else.

• Scriptable from your codebase

  Cursor's agent can reference files in your repo when calling Motif — turn a release notes file, a README, or a PR description into platform-native posts in one prompt.

What you can build

• Release → social in one prompt

  You ship a new version. Ask Cursor: "Repurpose the changelog into a LinkedIn post and a Twitter thread in my voice." Posts arrive in seconds, ready to copy.

• Blog draft → multi-platform

  You're drafting a blog post in Markdown. Before shipping, ask the agent to pre-generate platform-native versions using Motif. Publish everywhere on day one.

• Personal-brand automation

  Wire a Cursor task that watches a notes folder. When a new meeting note lands, Cursor calls Motif and drops the repurposed post drafts into a queue file.