Install Brightspace in Cursor

What you need first

• Cursor, installed.
• Node.js, which gives the npx command the server starts with.

Steps

1. Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json, or create it. For one project only, use .cursor/mcp.json in that project.
2. Add this block. If the file already has mcpServers, add only the entry inside it.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brightspace": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "[email protected]"]
    }
  }
}

3. Save the file. In Cursor's settings, find the server in the MCP section and turn it on if it is off.

Check it worked

Ask Cursor: List the tools of brightspace.

If it does not start

spawn npx ENOENT

Node.js is not on the PATH that Cursor sees. Install it, or write the full path of npx in the config.

Nothing changes after a restart

The file is not valid JSON any more. Look for a missing comma where the block was added.