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+# AGENTS.md
+
+## Cursor Cloud specific instructions
+
+### Overview
+
+Reactive Resume is a pnpm monorepo (Turborepo) with a single full-stack web app at `apps/web` (TanStack Start / React 19 / Vite) and ~15 internal packages under `packages/`. It runs as a single Node.js process on port 3000.
+
+### Prerequisites
+
+- **Node.js 24** (matches Dockerfile `ARG NODE_VERSION=24`). Use `nvm install 24 && nvm use 24` if needed.
+- **Docker** is required to run PostgreSQL. Start it with `sudo dockerd &` if the daemon isn't running.
+- **pnpm 11** is managed via corepack (`corepack enable`).
+
+### Database
+
+PostgreSQL runs via Docker Compose:
+
+```
+sudo docker compose -f compose.dev.yml up -d postgres
+```
+
+The dev default connection string is `postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/postgres`.
+
+**Important**: `drizzle-kit` (used by `pnpm db:migrate`) reads `DATABASE_URL` from `process.env` directly — it does **not** auto-load the `.env` file. You must `export DATABASE_URL=...` before running migration commands, or set it in your shell profile.
+
+### Environment
+
+Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. The three required variables are:
+
+- `APP_URL` (default `http://localhost:3000`)
+- `DATABASE_URL` (default `postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/postgres`)
+- `AUTH_SECRET` (any non-empty string)
+
+S3/SeaweedFS is optional — if S3 vars are omitted or commented out, the app uses local filesystem storage under `<workspace>/data`.
+
+### Common commands
+
+| Task | Command |
+|------|---------|
+| Install deps | `pnpm install` |
+| Run migrations | `DATABASE_URL="postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/postgres" pnpm db:migrate` |
+| Dev server | `pnpm dev` (starts on port 3000) |
+| Lint/format | `pnpm check` (Biome) |
+| Tests | `pnpm test` (Vitest) |
+| Build | `pnpm build` |
+| Typecheck | `pnpm typecheck` |
+
+### Gotchas
+
+- The dev server (`pnpm dev`) auto-runs migrations on startup via Nitro, so `pnpm db:migrate` is only strictly needed for first-time setup or after pulling new migration files.
+- Email sending requires SMTP config; without it, emails are logged to console. This is fine for dev — the app still functions, but email verification links appear in server logs.
+- The `lefthook.yml` pre-commit hook runs `biome check` on staged files. Run `pnpm check` before committing to avoid hook failures.