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Cursor 0.46+ ships with native MCP support. Both stdio and streamable HTTP transports are supported, so you have two options.
1

Open Cursor Settings

Cursor → Settings → FeaturesMCP+ Add new MCP server.
2

Fill the form

3

Save and reload

Cursor connects on save. You can see “25 tools loaded” in the server row.

Option B — stdio bridge (Cursor < 0.46)

Same mcp-remote flow as Claude Desktop — edit ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

Use it from the chat

Open the Cursor chat (Cmd+L), make sure Composer + agent mode is enabled, and ask:
Cursor will prompt to approve the get_metrics_summary tool call (you can auto-approve from the same Settings panel if you want).