How does Brief's MCP integration work?
Brief exposes an MCP server that your AI assistant queries in real-time. When you're coding, the assistant can:
Your AI builds anything. Including the wrong thing.
Ship the right thing, fast
With Brief your engineers and coding agents access product judgment without back-and-forth. Our MCP surfaces strategy, decisions, and customer insights so Cursor, Claude, and Copilot pull the right context when making tradeoffs.
Brief Engineering Suite
Strategic context flows directly to engineers in their IDE. Build with clarity, not questions
MCP
Built on MCP standards, Brief feeds relevant content into your IDE intelligently. Engineers get what they need without burning through context windows.
AI Tool Agnostic
Compatible with Cursor, Copilot, Claude, and all major AI coding assistants. Missing your IDE? Reach out and we'll build the integration.
Connected to your Repo
Major changes create drift between environments. Brief monitors your full codebase and flags issues across local, staging, and production.
search_decisions
Find past architectural choices and constraints
get_product_context
Pull current roadmap priorities and customer segment
get_features
See what's shipped, in-flight, or deprecated
read_documents
Access strategy docs, PRDs, and research
The Flow
- You ask Cursor/Claude to implement a feature
- AI calls
search_decisions("auth")→ sees you chose Supabase, ruled out custom JWT - AI calls
get_features()→ sees SSO is planned for Q2, not now - AI generates code that fits your actual architecture and roadmap
What's Exposed
- Decisions Timestamped choices with rationale (e.g., "Use Stripe, not custom billing")
- Features Current roadmap state (planned/building/shipped)
- Documents PRDs, requirements, design docs
- Context Customer segments, business constraints, velocity preferences
No manual context-pasting. No "read this 10-page doc before coding." The AI pulls exactly what it needs when it needs it.
One context layer, every coding environment
Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf. If it supports MCP, it gets Brief's context. Your engineers use whatever tools they prefer, and every AI agent stays aligned with the same strategic truth. No more inconsistent outputs because different tools have different assumptions. Your entire AI-augmented team works from one source of product intelligence.
Your context flows automatically, no manual syncing
Brief integrates with Notion, Slack, Linear, GitHub, and Fathom to pull decisions, specs, customer feedback, and technical discussions into one intelligence layer. When an engineer (or their AI agent) needs context, they're not digging through 12 tools, they're querying Brief. Your product knowledge becomes infrastructure, not archaeology.
AI Tool Integrations
How does Brief work with Cursor?
Install the MCP extension. Now when you ask Cursor to implement auth, it checks Brief first and sees: "We're using Supabase Auth, no custom JWT logic, SSO comes in Q2." Cursor builds what fits your roadmap, not what looks cool on GitHub.
What about Claude Code?
Same deal. Claude Code queries Brief for decisions and constraints. If you're building a feature, it knows what you've already decided and doesn't suggest approaches you've ruled out.
Setup time?
5 minutes: Connect Brief to Linear/Notion, add one line to your Cursor config. Done. The AI pulls context automatically when relevant.
Does this slow down my editor?
No. Context loads in the background while you code. Your editor stays fast.
Your strategic context, available to every agent.
Build features that ship, not just compile.