[Agent]: Install two agents via specify init . --integration cursor-agent --integration claude, is it right?

[zhaoxi2000]

[Agent]: Install two agents via specify init . --integration cursor-agent --integration claude, is it right?

[mnriem]

Short answer: that command does not install both agents, and multi-agent install in a single specify init is intentionally not supported.

specify init accepts a single --integration value. When you pass the flag twice (--integration cursor-agent --integration claude), only the last value wins — so that command installs just claude and silently ignores cursor-agent. It doesn't error, which is why it looks like both were installed.

This is by design: specify init scaffolds a project around one primary agent rather than defaulting to installing several at once.

To use multiple agents in one project, install them one at a time:

# 1. Initialize with your first agent
specify init . --integration cursor-agent

# 2. Add the second agent into the existing project
specify integration install claude

specify integration install <key> is the intended mechanism for adding additional agents. It also has a --force flag for cases where integrations aren't declared safe to coexist.

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Posted on behalf of @mnriem by GitHub Copilot (model: Claude Opus 4.8).

[Manfred]

@mnriem Can you ask Claude to not mention me in all these posts, thanks!

[mnriem]

Sorry about that .... it just happened to use my name ;). I changed it to use my handle. Hopefully this won't occur again