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Self-Documenting MCP: One-Step Algolia Setup via MCP Server in Cursor IDE

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi) on July 12, 2025

This is a submission for the Algolia MCP Server Challenge What I Built A Cursor-powered integration that “listens” for a natural-langua...
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Prema Ananda

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...

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Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

Checkout the YouTube video if you want to just see what is project about.

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Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

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.

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Faizan

very nice implementation, and your video was just expert YouTuber level.

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Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

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

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Airside Labs

Your development is interesting. I need to go deeper, thank you.

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Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

Thank you for feedback, please do :)
share if you submit your project to this challenge!

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Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

In case if anyone struggling setting up MCP on WSL

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sahra 💫

How did you know just exactly what I've been struggling with for a while now

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Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

Haha. Been through it myself)) did the video help?

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sahra 💫

Yeah it did👍 ✨

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Aditya

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!

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Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

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!

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Aditya

Yes, I'll try Agolia MCP too. It's just I'm a bit equipped with my current company's work.

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ANIRUDDHA ADAK

Awesome...All in one😍😍😍