Quickstart

Capture, bundle, and push your first prompts in about five minutes

From zero to a reviewable prompt bundle. Run these once and you'll have the full loop running on every machine you code on.

Prerequisites

  • –Node.js 20+ (for the npm install path)
  • –A PCR.dev account (sign up at pcr.dev)
  • –Cursor, Claude Code, or VS Code with Copilot installed

Steps

1

Install the CLI

Globally from npm.

npm install -g pcr-dev
2

Log in

Opens your browser to Settings to create a CLI token, then paste it back into the terminal.

pcr login
3

Register your project

From inside a git repo. If you cd into a directory that contains several git repos one level down, pcr init registers all of them in one shot.

cd ~/code/my-app
pcr init
4

Start the watcher

Leave this running in a terminal tab while you code. Captures prompts from every registered project in the background.

pcr start
5

Bundle and push

Open the interactive browser, multi-select the drafts you want to ship, name the bundle, then push.

pcr show              # opens the interactive browser
# space / enter to mark drafts
# b to bundle, type a name, enter
# p to push immediately, or q to quit and `pcr push` later
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pcr show and pcr bundle (no args) are the same TUI — use whichever name reads better. The browser is the main place you'll spend time after the watcher is running.

Next steps

  • –Org workspaces: run pcr init at the top level of a multi-repo directory to register every nested git repo at once
  • –Team sharing: teammates run pcr init in the same repo — they're matched by git remote URL and added to the same project automatically
  • –MCP integration: add pcr mcp to your Cursor or Claude Code MCP config for per-call metadata
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