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We are ready to connect to, our tools of choice. What are we gonna start with first, Lindsay? So let's do cursor. So that's one of our easiest ones. If you go to our docs, we actually have a one click button to get you started there. So find the cursor section in our docs, scroll down, and click a button. It's gonna open up your cursor, and you'll just fill in the settings here. So you'll wanna put in your URL for your instance, and then this is where you'll grab that token that you created from your user. Alright. And I think we'll just hit install. And there you go. You're good to go. And we we can see we are connected, and then we are ready to chat. And as you can see, the Directus MCP is connected to cursor, and we are actually picking up the schema. Alright. So that is how you connect the native MCP to Cursor. Super easy to get started. Make sure you check it out. But what about marketers? They typically use chat g p t five or something similar. That's a a great question, Lizzie. 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With that in mind, we're really treating this more as a collaboration tool rather than an automation tool. Christina will do a little segment on that later, so keep watching. We found that LLMs are pretty great at helping unblock users in tasks they're taking, but do wanna make sure that we offer those LLM tools when and where they make sense. So for our very first deep dive here into AI, we started with MCP as the focus area.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>That allows our users to be unblocked when using third party tools like Claw, JetGPT, Recursor, or any other tool that supports MCP, and allow them to use their content, their data within Directus from those tools directly. When it comes to AI use, we obviously have to make sure that we have some very strict control about what an LM is allowed to read, what it is allowed to do with your data. 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