Use with coding agents

Coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Cursor work best when they can read the documents behind the code: specs, design docs, API references and requirements. With Paperful connected, they can look these up while they work, without you pasting them in.

Example prompts

Implement from a spec

Read the payments spec in Paperful and implement the refund flow it describes.

Check against requirements

Search my papers for the data retention requirements and check whether our cleanup job follows them.

Answer questions about a codebase's context

Why do we round prices down? Check the pricing design doc in Paperful.

Tell the agent when to use Paperful

Add a note to your project's agent instructions file, such as CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md:

## Documents

Product specs and design docs are in Paperful. Use the Paperful `search`
tool to look up requirements before implementing a feature.

Share the setup with your team

Commit the MCP configuration to your repository so everyone gets Paperful automatically. Each person signs in with their own account and only sees their own workspace.

• Claude Code: claude mcp add --scope project ... writes .mcp.json.
• Cursor: commit .cursor/mcp.json.
• VS Code: commit .vscode/mcp.json.