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Examples

Common workflows and use cases for Cutline MCP integration.

MCP Examples

Real-world examples and workflows for using Cutline MCP in your daily development.

Quick Start Examples

Generate a Pre-mortem

The most common use case—validate a product idea before building:

Generate a premortem for a mobile app that helps remote teams 
track their daily standups asynchronously. Target audience is 
engineering teams of 5-20 people. We plan to launch in 3 months.

The AI will use the premortem.run tool to generate:

  • Key assumptions to validate
  • Potential risks and failure modes
  • Recommended experiments
  • Market analysis
  • Success criteria

Get Persona Feedback on a Feature

Ask your AI personas what they think:

I want to add a dark mode to our analytics dashboard. 
What does my persona Debra think about this feature?

Or get feedback from all personas at once:

Ask all my personas: Would you pay $10/month for a feature 
that automatically generates weekly reports?

Load and Update Your Wiki

Work with your project documentation:

Load the wiki for my project and summarize the current roadmap

Then make updates:

Add a new section to the wiki called "Q1 2025 Goals" with 
these three objectives: 1) Launch mobile app, 2) Reach 1000 users, 
3) Achieve $10K MRR

Development Workflows

Feature Validation Workflow

Before starting any new feature, run through this workflow:

Step 1: Generate Pre-mortem

Generate a premortem for adding Slack integration to our 
product management tool. The feature would allow users to 
receive notifications and run quick commands from Slack.

Step 2: Get Persona Reactions

What does each of my personas think about this Slack 
integration feature? Who would use it most?

Step 3: Identify Experiments

Based on the premortem, what are the top 3 experiments 
we should run before building this feature?

Step 4: Document Decision

Update the wiki with our decision on the Slack integration, 
including the premortem findings and planned experiments.

Sprint Planning Workflow

Use Cutline to validate your sprint backlog:

Review Backlog Items

I have these 5 features planned for the sprint:
1. User profile page
2. Email notifications
3. Export to CSV
4. Team invitations
5. Dashboard widgets

Ask my personas to rank these by importance and explain why.

Identify Risks

Generate a quick risk assessment for implementing 
team invitations this sprint. What could go wrong?

Code Review Enhancement

Get product perspective on your code changes:

I'm about to merge a PR that adds a new onboarding flow 
with 5 steps. Here's what each step collects:
1. Name and email
2. Company size
3. Role
4. Goals
5. Invite teammates

What would my persona Zach (technical founder) think 
about this onboarding experience?

Product Strategy Examples

Competitive Analysis

Generate a premortem that specifically focuses on competitive 
risks for our analytics product. Main competitors are Mixpanel, 
Amplitude, and PostHog. What are the biggest threats?

Pricing Validation

We're considering three pricing tiers:
- Free: 1,000 events/month
- Pro: $29/month for 100K events
- Business: $99/month for 1M events

Ask my personas if they would upgrade from Free to Pro, 
and what would convince them.

Market Expansion

Generate a premortem for expanding our US-based SaaS product 
to the European market. Consider GDPR, localization, 
payment methods, and go-to-market strategy.

Integration Examples

Create Linear Issues from Pre-mortem

After generating a pre-mortem, create action items:

Take the experiments from my latest premortem and 
create Linear issues for each one, tagged with "validation"

Generate Documentation

Based on my premortem for the mobile app feature, 
generate a PRD that I can share with my engineering team

Export to PDF

Export my most recent premortem as a PDF that I can 
share with stakeholders

Advanced Prompts

Multi-Persona Debate

I want to see a debate between my personas about whether 
we should build a native mobile app or a progressive web app.
Have Debra and Zach argue both sides.

Assumption Testing

From my latest premortem, identify the riskiest assumption 
and design a quick experiment I could run this week to 
test it with less than $500 budget.

Historical Analysis

Show me all my premortems from the last 3 months and 
identify common themes in the risks that were identified.
What patterns do you see?

Persona Calibration

Compare what my persona Debra predicted about our 
onboarding feature vs. the actual user feedback we got. 
How accurate was she? What should we adjust in her profile?

Tips for Better Results

Be Specific About Context

❌ Too vague:

Generate a premortem

✅ Good:

Generate a premortem for a B2B SaaS tool that helps 
marketing teams schedule social media posts. Target 
customers are marketing agencies with 5-50 employees. 
We have $200K runway and need to hit $10K MRR in 6 months.

Include Constraints

Generate a premortem for our mobile app launch, considering:
- We only have 2 developers
- Budget is limited to $50K
- Must launch before Q2
- Need to support both iOS and Android

Ask Follow-up Questions

After getting initial results:

That's helpful. Can you go deeper on risk #3 about 
user adoption? What specific experiments would validate 
whether users will actually change their workflow?

Iterate on Personas

My persona Zach seems too optimistic. Based on this feedback 
from a real customer interview, update his profile to be 
more skeptical about new tools: "[interview quote]"

Troubleshooting Examples

Token Expired

If you see authentication errors mid-session:

# In terminal
cutline-mcp logout
cutline-mcp login

Then retry your request in the AI chat.

Tool Not Found

If a tool isn't available:

What Cutline MCP tools do you have access to?

This will list all available tools and help diagnose configuration issues.

Next Steps

MCP Tool Reference