Setup Strip Made With Cursor

Sets up a preToolUse hook that intercepts tool calls and silently strips “Made with Cursor” (and its markdown-link variant) from any string values before Cursor writes them.

What Gets Stripped

• Made with Cursor (case-insensitive, plain text)
• Made with [Cursor](...) (case-insensitive, markdown link variant)

When jq is available, the text is silently removed and the tool call proceeds. When jq is missing, the tool call is denied with a message asking the user to install jq.

Steps

1. Ask scope

Ask the user: install for this project only (.cursor/hooks.json) or globally (~/.cursor/hooks.json)?

2. Copy the hook script

The bundled script is at: scripts/strip-made-with-cursor.sh

Copy it to the target location based on scope:

• Project: .cursor/hooks/strip-made-with-cursor.sh
• Global: ~/.cursor/hooks/strip-made-with-cursor.sh

Make it executable with chmod +x.

3. Add hook to hooks.json

Add to the appropriate hooks.json file:

Project (.cursor/hooks.json):

{
  "version": 1,
  "hooks": {
    "preToolUse": [
      {
        "command": "bash .cursor/hooks/strip-made-with-cursor.sh"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Global (~/.cursor/hooks.json):

{
  "version": 1,
  "hooks": {
    "preToolUse": [
      {
        "command": "bash ~/.cursor/hooks/strip-made-with-cursor.sh"
      }
    ]
  }
}

If the hooks.json file already exists, merge the hook entry into the existing hooks.preToolUse array — don’t overwrite other hooks.

4. Verify

Run a quick test:

echo '{"tool_name":"edit_file","tool_input":{"content":"Made with [Cursor](https://cursor.com)"}}' | bash <path-to-script>

Should return JSON with "decision":"allow" and the branding text removed from updated_input.