Works with your AI

Quote with Cursor and Knack

Cursor's agent uses Knack over the connector like any other MCP server: paste one snippet, and a session can read the working pack, look at the drawings, search your catalogue and write the draft back.

On every plan · Knack sends nothing to any AI provider · every answer is a draft

Setup

Two minutes, once.

What you need:

  • A Knack account where you're the owner or an estimator (the connection reads costs).
  • Cursor, with its MCP settings available (Settings → MCP).
  1. 1

    Create a token in Knack

    In Knack, open Settings → Integrations → AI tools, name the token after the tool (“Cursor on my laptop”) and press Create token. Knack shows the token once, beside a filled-in snippet for each tool. Copy it now — Knack keeps only a fingerprint.

  2. 2

    Paste the snippet into Cursor

    Add it to .cursor/mcp.json in a project, or to your global Cursor MCP settings:

    {
  "mcpServers": {
    "knack": {
      "url": "https://api.knackapp.co.nz/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer knk_…your token…"
      }
    }
  }
}

  3. 3

    Check it's talking

    Ask Cursor to “list my Knack jobs”. If it answers with your jobs, the connection is live. If it says the token isn't valid, revoke it in Knack and create another.

Your first session

Bring a job that's worth the conversation.

Open a new chat and say: “Work up a quote for job J-1043 in Knack.” Cursor reads the working pack for that job first — your catalogue, your rates, how you write, the site facts, what's already counted on the drawings — then looks at the drawings and the site photos, and starts asking you the questions a thorough estimate needs. When the price is agreed, it writes the draft quote into Knack and tells you what's still open. Open the job in Knack, read the draft, edit what you like, send.

Everything it writes into Knack is a draft you read, edit and send yourself.

Fair questions

Straight answers.

What can it read, what can it write, and what can't it touch?

A connected AI can read this account's customers and sites, your drawings and site photos; every quote you have sent, line by line, with whether it was won; your recipes, symbol links, playbooks and templates; and your costs and margins. It can also add and correct customers and jobs, and set up and change your pricing — price-book items and their prices, your default markup and charge-out rate, recipes (including confirming their rates), symbol links, other names for items, playbooks and quote templates — when you ask it to. These are real changes, not drafts: a price it changes is what new quote lines use from then on. It can never delete anything, and never send a quote to your customer: you do that. Connect only tools you trust — a token or connection can be revoked at any time. It cannot see any other Knack account, and there is nothing about payments in Knack for it to read.

Does it write the actual quote?

No. Everything it writes into Knack is a draft you read, edit and send yourself. The draft lands in the quote builder with every line still yours, and nothing reaches a customer until you press Send.

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