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Using MCP servers in Cursor

Using MCP servers in Cursor - Claude Tutorial

From the course: Model Context Protocol (MCP): Hands-On with Agentic AI

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Using MCP servers in Cursor

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- [Instructor] In the previous video, I used an MCP server installed in Claude to generate a read me file in a project, and then I demonstrated that read me file in Cursor. But Cursor is also an MCP client, so in this video, let me show you how to install MCPs in Cursor, both at a project level and at a global level. You can find lots more information about how to use MCPs in Cursor at the official Cursor docs. In particular, you'll find configuration locations for project level MCPs and global MCPs. To start this demo, I'll delete these two files here so that we can generate them again. Then I'll go up to Cursor settings and navigate down to MCP. Right now, there are no MCPs installed either in my project or globally, and because this docs helper MCP will be applicable to all my projects, I'm going to add it at a global level. So I'll click add new global MCP server. This creates a new file under the .cursor folder under my profile called mcp.json. And this is where I place the MCP…

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