Help Needed: Transferring Project from Bolt to Cursor & Using Agent

Hi everyone,

I’m new to Cursor and trying to transfer a project from Bolt to Cursor. My project is a React/TypeScript app, and I’ve managed to move the files over, install dependencies, and even start the development server.

The problem is, I can’t seem to get the Cursor Agent to help me:
1. It doesn’t edit my code directly when I ask it to (e.g., “Add a footer” or “Remove a button”).
2. It won’t run commands like npm install or npm run dev for me.
3. I’m not sure if there’s something wrong with my setup or if I’m just missing a step.

I’d really appreciate some guidance on:
• How to fully set up and transfer a project from Bolt to Cursor.
• How to get the Agent to handle code changes and run commands for me going forward.

Thanks a lot in advance !

Hey, the agent should be able to do both of those things you describe.
Can you send a screenshot of what happens if you ask it to run npm install for you?

Hi Dan - thanks for getting back to me.

I presume you mean to the agent and not directly in the terminal? Above is what it says.

To note, I am very much a novice to this so I appreciate it there is a missing step that I haven’t done in transferring code over from Bolt to Cursor… if there is any literature on this then let me know too. Thanks,

Dan - I am an idiot!!!

I did not toggle the ‘agent’ button on the right of the Composer text box. This now all works correctly for me, I blame lack of sleep for this!

Thanks again.

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