The SpecStory extension is only for use with the Cursor editor. Because Cursor does not work with the standard Visual Studio Extension Marketplace, we recommend installing SpecStory manually using the method below.

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Supercharge your Cursor experience

How to install:

  1. Make sure you’re on the latest version of Cursor.
  2. Download the extension: specstory-vscode-latest.vsix
  3. From Cursor, pop open the Command Palette (Ctrl/CMD-Shift-P) and choose Extensions: Install from VSIX….
  4. Select the VSIX file that you downloaded above.
  5. To verify the installation, open the Command Palette again (Ctrl/CMD-Shift-P) and type SpecStory. You should see the available commands show up.
  6. Why not install directly from the Visual Studio Marketplace banner? You might find yourself in a state where VS Code has SpecStory but Cursor doesn’t. It makes for a bad time. No one wants that.

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Why this will rock your world

Think of SpecStory as your AI conversation time machine.

We turn those brilliant coding chats into something both humans AND machines can digest (in fancy Markdown format). We even do it automatically!

⚡ Your AI companion is about to get significantly less forgetful, and you won’t have to lift a finger - let’s go!

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Do cool stuff

  • 📚 Save your AI / human conversations for future-you (trust us, they’ll thank you).

  • 🗄️ Leave Auto Save on and never lose a single conversation.

  • 🧠 Drop some knowledge bombs with @ references in your composer sessions. Yes, it’s kind of meta, but you can save your chat/composer history to a markdown file in your project, then reference all or part of it in your next chat or in a new project.

  • 🌐 Show off your coding adventures with shareable URLs at share.specstory.com. Send anyone and everyone a link and they’ll be able to read and search your AI coding conversations.

  • 📋 Stash those golden conversations in your favorite task manager. Break apart your to-dos and create a work plan for your next coding session.

It’s like a memory upgrade for your AI assistant, but way more fun