This is a submission for the Algolia MCP Server Challenge
What I Built
A Cursor-powered integration that “listens” for a natural-language Run setup for project "X" command and, via Algolia’s MCP Server:
- Discovers your Algolia applications and indices
- Extracts full index settings (ranking, facets, typo tolerance, analytics flags)
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Generates a version-controlled
ALGOLIA_PROJECT_CONFIG.mdwith change history - Idempotently tracks updates so your search config never drifts
Why it matters: this tool makes your search infrastructure self-documenting, resilient to LLM context limits, and instantly reproducible for teams.
Demo
Algolia MCP Cursor Integration
This is a submission for the Algolia MCP Server Challenge
What I Built
A Cursor-powered integration that "listens" for a Run Setup for project "X" command and, using Algolia's MCP Server, automatically discovers your application, indices, and settings—and writes them into a persistent ALGOLIA_PROJECT_CONFIG.md file. This ensures your search configuration lives in your repo (not just in LLM context), survives restarts, and can be version-controlled alongside your code.
🚀 Quick Start
Prerequisites
- Cursor IDE installed
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) server configured
1. Setup Cursor Rules
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Copy the
algolia-main-rules.mdcandalgolia-reference.mdcfiles to your Cursor rules folder. -
The rule will automatically activate when Cursor detects Algolia-related queries
2. Initialize Your Project
Simply ask Cursor:
Run setup for project "your-algolia-app-name"
Or more specifically:
List apps I have in Algolia and if it is the only one, run setup project for the app
3. That's It! 🎉
The integration…
How I Utilized the Algolia MCP Server
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Authentication & Discovery
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getUserInfo()→getApplications()→listIndices()
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Settings Extraction
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getSettings()per index → collected ranking, faceting, searchable attributes, typo rules, analytics config
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Config Generation
- Rendered into structured Markdown (see
algolia-main-rules.mdc) - Appended a timestamped Recent Changes log
- Rendered into structured Markdown (see
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Search & Data Ops (bonus)
- Demonstrated
searchSingleIndex(),saveObject(),batch()and analytics calls (getTopSearches(),getNoResultsRate()) all reading defaults from the generated file
- Demonstrated
📊 Key Takeaways
Project Memory
- Problem: Algolia settings vanish when LLM context resets
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Solution: Persistent
ALGOLIA_PROJECT_CONFIG.mdfile stores all configuration - Benefit: Consistent search behavior across development sessions
Automation
- Problem: Manual setup for each new project is time-consuming
- Solution: Embedded MCP calls in Cursor rules automate discovery
- Benefit: Developers can bootstrap new projects in seconds
Top comments (15)
Your development will likely be useful to many people. But I couldn't get into the demo. Probably because I stopped using Cursor after Gemini CLI came out...
Checkout the YouTube video if you want to just see what is project about.
Whoops. Sorry for that. There is no live demo for this project. There is GitHub repo you can check. The project is for develops to use locally.
very nice implementation, and your video was just expert YouTuber level.
Appreciate it my friend. It is first YouTube video on channel I plan to develop. Will be mainly Dev topics. Maybe you can be one of my first followers. Hehe. Thanks
Your development is interesting. I need to go deeper, thank you.
Thank you for feedback, please do :)
share if you submit your project to this challenge!
In case if anyone struggling setting up MCP on WSL
How did you know just exactly what I've been struggling with for a while now
Haha. Been through it myself)) did the video help?
Yeah it did👍 ✨
AWS based IDE - kiro has this feature called agent hooks. They let's us create things like self update agents, self linting agent and best thing is that we can create our own agent hooks. I guess there we do not need to make an MCP tool and it's really cool!
Hey, try it out with Algolia MCP and see if it works same way like using these rules. Would be interesting to see.
Let us know!
Yes, I'll try Agolia MCP too. It's just I'm a bit equipped with my current company's work.
Awesome...All in one😍😍😍