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Use Arcade in Cursor

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Connect Cursor to an Arcade Gateway.

Prerequisites

  1. Create an Arcade
  2. Get an Arcade API key
  3. Create an Arcade MCP Gateway and select the you want to use

Cursor currently does not refresh the OAuth tokens automatically. To set a persistent connection between Cursor and your , you should set the Authorization field to “Arcade Headers” in the dashboard.

Production end with their own identities? If your end users already sign in to Entra ID, Okta, Auth0, Clerk, or another OIDC provider, configure a User Source on your gateway. Arcade redirects each end user to your identity provider on sign-in and identifies them by an OIDC subject claim.

Set up Cursor

  1. Open the Command Palette (Cmd + Shift + P on macOS, Ctrl + Shift + P on Windows/Linux) and select Open Settings
  2. Click on the “New Server” button

Cursor will open the settings file, and you can add a new entry to the mcpServers object:

JSON
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-arcade": {
      "url": "https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>"
    }
  }
}

Try it out

  1. Open the chat pane (typically command-l)
  2. Make sure you are in mode
  3. Ask the to use a !
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