Cursor setup for daisyUI

Setup Cursor editor to correctly generate daisyUI code based on your prompt.

To setup Tailwind CSS syntax support and IntelliSense, see Tailwind CSS docs.

Cursor Cursor LLM setup

daisyui.com/llms.txt file is a compact, text version of daisyUI docs to help AI generate accurate daisyUI code based on your prompt.
Here's how to use daisyUI llms.txt in Cursor:

Quick use

In chat window type this and Cursor will use daisyUI's llms.txt file to generate code.

prompt
@web https://daisyui.com/llms.txt

Project-level permanent setup

You can setup daisyUI's llms.txt file to your workspace so Cursor can use it by default. (Read more at Cursor docs)

Run this command to save the llms.txt file to .cursor/rules/daisyui.mdc

Terminal
curl -L https://daisyui.com/llms.txt --create-dirs -o .cursor/rules/daisyui.mdc

Add as an optional document to Cursor

  1. Press ⌘ CMD + ⇧ Shift + P. Or if it's Windows, press ⌃ Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + P.

  2. Type Add new custom docs

  3. Add this:

    https://daisyui.com/llms.txt

  4. Now in chat window you can type @docs and choose daisyUI to provide daisyUI docs to Cursor.

MCP server

MCP is a an API to communicate with AI models.
You can add MCP servers and Cursor will communicate with them to get more accurate results.
You can use Context7 or daisyUI GitMCP as MCP server in Cursor.

Setup Context7 MCP server

  1. Go to Cursor settings ⌘ CMD + ⇧ Shift + J (or ⌃ Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + J on Windows)

  2. Click MCP from the left sidebar

  3. Click Add new global MCP server

  4. Add this:

    ~/.cursor/mcp.json
    {
  "mcpServers": {
+   "Context7": {
+     "type": "stdio",
+     "command": "npx",
+     "args": ["-y", "@upstash/context7-mcp@latest"]
+   }
  }
}

Usage

Now in Agent Mode you can ask AI anything about daisyUI. write use context7 at the end of your prompt.
For example:

prompt
give me a light daisyUI 5 theme with tropical color palette. use context7

Setup daisyUI GitMCP server

  1. Go to Cursor settings ⌘ CMD + ⇧ Shift + J (or ⌃ Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + J on Windows)

  2. Click MCP from the left sidebar

  3. Click Add new global MCP server

  4. Add this:

    ~/.cursor/mcp.json
    {
  "mcpServers": {
+   "daisyui Docs": {
+     "url": "https://gitmcp.io/saadeghi/daisyui"
+   }
  }
}

Usage

Now in Agent Mode you can ask AI anything about daisyUI.

prompt
give me a light daisyUI 5 theme with tropical color palette
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