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MCP

An open protocol for exposing tools and data to AI applications. Write an MCP server once and any client that speaks it — Cursor included — can use your tools.

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Where it comes up

Cursor for Mobile Developers

Apr 23, 2026first said at 4:2545 mentions

“open one up here. Um say this Amazon Amazon location service is going to provide, you know, a package of MCP servers and skills that if you click add to cursor, it's going to bring it down install those MCP servers skill configuration files…”

Cursor x Datadog

Apr 23, 2026first said at 8:1934 mentions

“well is talk a little bit more about the MCP and how, you know, Datadog and Cursor work together to provide this, um, automation experience. Um, something that I've briefly talked about is our No, actually I haven't talked about it. So let…”

Cursor for Java Developers

Mar 12, 2026first said at 16:4827 mentions

“primitives just more around the the IntelligJ connection. >> Oh, yes, of course. that works. Um, one of them is and if we were going to cover this later then feel free to punt it for now but uh a question around MCP servers and whether we c…”

Cursor 101

May 7, 2026first said at 12:1618 mentions

“deploy my projects. And by connecting to these integrations, it's going to bring context to these integrations into your chats. So, if I click on the Atlassian plugin, you can see these are the resources that come with that Atlassian plugin…”

Cursor 101

Apr 7, 2026first said at 2:5018 mentions

“And so, you just go up here and where it says ask AI, click that, and you can ask questions in natural language. Super nice way to navigate uh a documentation. So, you can say um you know, tell me about sub-agents or MCPs. You know, just na…”

Cursor for Professional Services

Nov 18, 2025first said at 1:4018 mentions

“very important to be able to reconcile that context with your existing engineering space. The way we do this is by essentially using things like MCPs to bridge the gap and bringing things like for example proc requirements document from not…”

Cursor x Slack

Apr 27, 2026first said at 1:0018 mentions

“[clears throat] use Slack and now Cursor. So for today's demo I'm just going to share my screen. I'm going to show a few things. So everyone might know that Slack has a Slack MCP now that Cursor can use and then Cursor also has a Slack inte…”

Cursor Automations

Apr 2, 2026first said at 2:2216 mentions

“You can see this one is like add dark mode to toggle top bar. Um it's quite easy, so in the traditional sense, if I don't have automations, what I would do is I probably copy this Jira or connect it with MCP. In this case, it's faster to ju…”

Cursor for Financial Services

Feb 3, 2026first said at 5:4515 mentions

“controls. So what you're seeing right now being able to deterministically say the agent is able to do this or it's able to not do this with things like hooks and sandboxing. Being able to decide what commands or MCPs you can run and allow l…”

Cloud Agents

Mar 19, 2026first said at 3:1014 mentions

“have knowledge to your internal tools and systems. So being able to surface the right MCPs that interact with your um knowledge base, being able to write skills that provide that relevant context for how best practices and how all the um in…”

Cursor for Designers

Apr 21, 2026first said at 2:5013 mentions

“Going to go ahead and full screen this so we can get folks with you know, bad eyesight like myself able to see everything. Um I know for a lot of folks who do design work on the day to day that we or that you all use Figma pretty heavily. S…”

PRD to PR

Mar 18, 2026first said at 1:2813 mentions

“you know, a few months ago, uh we have usually better approaches or more tools to do it faster, to do it better. Um and that's kind of some of the things we're going to walk through today. So, the agenda right now is we're just going to do…”

Cursor for Support Teams

Nov 13, 2025first said at 4:4711 mentions

“really important and cursor helps uplevel you in all three. For account management, as an example, you can pipe in your account management data from your CRM of choice into Cursor using an MCP server and make that readily available to the L…”

Cursor for Product Managers

Dec 4, 2025first said at 3:5710 mentions

“even more value because they, you know, have all of these different processes that they've been doing product development with that cursor kind of just like cuts through all of that and now suddenly like a product manager can also be like s…”

Refactoring Legacy Codebases

Jan 8, 2026first said at 19:4410 mentions

“It's instructions, so like a system prompt. That's tools. So, you have first party tools, uh, which are things like editing files, searching your codebase, running shell commands. Then you also have third party tools. Those are MCP servers…”

Cursor 201

Apr 14, 2026first said at 8:229 mentions

“So if I come over here to a new agent, I'm in my Grafana repo and I want to create a cloud agent for this. So I'm just going to go to this drop down and select cloud. Um, and I'm going to ask it to use my identify tech debt skill. Um, I can…”

Cursor for Quality Assurance

Feb 12, 2026first said at 19:439 mentions

“testing coverage and maybe even doing something off of the coverage. Let's say you want to push this coverage report up to Confluence or something. We can use MCPS to kind of go back and forth. Uh, in fact, uh, I actually I think I already…”

Securing Agentic Coding at Scale

Feb 17, 2026first said at 8:058 mentions

“validate that that's what you want the agent to do. Uh second, we'll talk about model and MCP controls. So admins have the ability to restrict exactly which models and tools teams have access to. If you don't want agents calling an unapprov…”

Cursor Admin Guide

Mar 31, 2026first said at 10:387 mentions

“leverage in your plan building all of the best kind of reasoning capabilities from the best models across uh the the frontier labs. So, helpful to see insight into this into your or in your your cursor dashboard as well. Another thing that…”

Cursor for Finance Teams

May 28, 2026first said at 15:016 mentions

“I'm just going to leave that and I'm going to hit go. And so cursor is connected to our GitHub repo so it understands our entire code base across our product and so it's also connected to our data bricks instance through MCPs and connected…”

How Cursor uses Cursor

Apr 9, 2026first said at 10:376 mentions

“A key part of the development process at Cursor is using integrations. And so, here is an inside look into our tech stack and kind of what we use at different points in the software development life cycle. Our source of truth for tracking f…”

Cursor Agent SDK

May 12, 2026first said at 23:255 mentions

“Yeah, if you are in an enterprise team, I again, I think that will depend on your specific uh contract, but it should be just drawing from the team's uh pool pooled usage there, but um you can triple-check that with your account manager. An…”

Cursor for Knowledge Work

Apr 30, 2026first said at 8:345 mentions

“I'm going to tell it to use the Databricks MCP. Um, so MCP servers, if are a great way to actually connect Cursor to your internal knowledge bases. So, right here I have my personal ones connected to Figma and Granola. And then I have to my…”

Cursor Rules, Commands, Hooks, and Skills

Mar 5, 2026first said at 33:565 mentions

“highly recommend you go to cursor.com/blog. Uh there is a great post I think it's on the second page now when you go to the blog page and Emily maybe you can drop it in the chat really good overview of how dynamic context discovery works bu…”

Cursor CLI

Apr 15, 2026first said at 6:114 mentions

“in? What MCPs do I have access to? And one of the things that, um, you know, we'll start with here at the very very beginning is just like let's do something pretty basic. Let's switch from the model that I'm currently in, which I think is…”

Refactoring Legacy Codebases

May 21, 2026first said at 10:164 mentions

“From here I'm using the Linear MCP server to take that inventory and start turning that into different tasks. And so we see here it's created uh multiple issues for this. And then it batches those issues into different phases. And so if I w…”

Cursor 201

May 19, 2026first said at 34:083 mentions

“on prem um or you have different different servers and like different tools, like different MCP servers that are only exposed like within your network, um you can have that container essentially running within your network, so that all thos…”

Cursor for Enterprise

Apr 16, 2026first said at 11:413 mentions

“Then you can control that within your admin settings as well. Quite quite often see this for you know, some of the really really more expensive premium models as well. Similarly, you can do the same thing for particular MCPs as well. So may…”

Cursor for Data Science

Feb 19, 2026first said at 39:572 mentions

“long chat with this guy. It's getting to like 80% of my context window. I can start a new chat and then do at past chats and then I'm able to get context from a previous chat. And what it will do is it'll actually smush the context there an…”

Engineering Teams in the Agentic Era

Mar 26, 2026first said at 13:262 mentions

“cases like days or even weeks. And then, the final piece is uh incorporating these agents across all the different tools in your stack and implementing them at different points in the software development life cycle. So, some of the things…”

Cursor for Security Teams

Feb 5, 2026first said at 36:021 mention

“>> And then I'm also seeing a lot of questions about kind of what are the enterprisewide security features you should be rolling out. How can you control MCPs, different tools? We're actually having a separate session on that um in two week…”

Developer Productivity Trends

Jan 27, 2026first said at 28:331 mention

“Cool. And just so as a next step, um if you are an enterprise customer, reach out to your account executive. Um if uh if you're not, email enterprisecursor. We can uh.com. We can help you. We can help you with a more detailed walkthrough of…”