• Prerequisites
• Connect Cursor to the Connect AI MCP

Cursor is an AI-powered integrated development environment (IDE) developed by Anysphere. It is a fork of Visual Studio Code.

Prerequisites

Before you can configure and use Cursor with Connect AI, you must first do the following:

• Install the Cursor IDE.

• Connect a data source to your Connect AI account. See Sources for more information.

• Generate a Personal Access Token (PAT) on the Settings page. Copy this down, as it acts as your password during authentication.

• Base64-encode your Connect AI credentials in the following format: Base64("email:PAT").

Connect Cursor to the Connect AI MCP

1. In the Cursor IDE, go to Cursor Settings. Then click Tools & MCP, and then click New MCP Server. The file mcp.json opens automatically in the Cursor IDE.

2. Copy and paste the following into the mcp.json file. Replace the authorization header with the Base64-encoded credentials obtained in the prerequisites.

        {
        "mcpServers": {
            "cdata-mcp": {
            "url": "https://mcp.cloud.cdata.com/mcp",
            "headers": {
                "Authorization": "Basic YOUR_BASE64_ENCODED_EMAIL:PAT" //Authorization obtained in prerequisites
            }
            }
        }
        }
   

3. Return to Tools & MCP under Cursor Settings. Confirm that Cursor is connected to CData’s MCP Server. You should see cdata-mcp listed with a green indicator.

   

4. You can now chat with the assistant. Cursor lists the available tools, the connections, and a result set of a given table of a given connection. By default, Cursor asks for confirmation before executing MCP tool actions.