Cursor Integration

Intracept + Cursor

Every command Cursor's agent runs — translated to plain English, evaluated against your policy, with approval dialogs right in the editor.

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Hook intercepts

Cursor fires a beforeShellExecution hook before every shell command. Intracept's compiled Rust binary catches it in under a millisecond.

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Translate + evaluate

The command is pattern-matched and translated to plain English. Your policy decides the verdict: allow, require approval, or deny.

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Approve in-editor

Safe commands run silently with a status bar translation. Risky commands show a Quick Pick dialog at the top of your editor — approve or deny with one click.

What you see

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Quick Pick approval dialog

require_approval

When a command needs approval, a Quick Pick appears at the top of Cursor showing the plain-English translation. Click Approve to proceed or Deny to block it.

Quick Pick:

❯i Delete the /tmp/build directory recursively

ApproveDeny

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Status bar translation

allow

Every allowed command shows a colored translation in the status bar at the bottom of Cursor. Green for allowed, amber for approval-required. No interruption to your flow.

❯iallow|Run the full test suite

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Toast notifications

A brief notification appears in the corner of Cursor showing the translation and verdict. Auto-dismisses after 8 seconds for allowed commands.

Setup

Up and running in under a minute.

Install Intracept

Install via Homebrew or build from source.

$ brew tap laurenalexander2/tap

$ brew install --cask intracept

Or: curl -fsSL https://intracept.dev/install.sh | sh

Register with Cursor

This writes the hook config to ~/.cursor/hooks.json and installs the extension.

$ intracept install --agent cursor

Start the daemon

The daemon runs in the background and handles translation + policy evaluation.

$ intracept start

Use Cursor normally

That's it. Every shell command Cursor's agent runs now passes through Intracept. You'll see translations in the status bar and approval dialogs for risky commands.

✓Intracept is active

What gets installed

~/.cursor/hooks.jsonbeforeShellExecution hook pointing to the intracept-hook binary

~/.intracept/bin/intracept-hookCompiled Rust binary that intercepts commands (< 1 MB)

~/.intracept/policy.yamlYour policy rules — edit anytime, changes apply immediately

~/.intracept/intracept.dbSQLite audit log of every command and decision

To uninstall: intracept uninstall --agent cursor