Cursor
Anysphere ยท Code editor, Terminal, Web app
A code editor from Anysphere for Linux, macOS and Windows, whose agent can also be run from a terminal CLI or started in the browser. MCP servers are installed from its marketplace or listed in .cursor/mcp.json for one project or ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project, and it talks to them over stdio, SSE or Streamable HTTP.
Facts
How to add a server to Cursor
- Find the server you want on plug.directory and open its page.
- In its install block, pick Cursor. The block shows the config and where it goes.
- Put the config in ~/.cursor/mcp.json. Then check the server's tools in Cursor, as its docs describe.
For example, Azure MCP Server, one of the top ranked servers that work in Cursor, goes in ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"azure": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@azure/[email protected]", "server", "start"]
}
}
} How to add an MCP server to Cursor: local and remote
Matches the official docs The config follows Cursor's MCP docs, read on 2026-10-31.
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Facts read from Anysphere's own pages on 2026-10-31; the description is ours, from its site. Every client