This tutorial walks you through the usage of MindsDB MCP API with Cursor.

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Tutorial

  1. Open Cursor, go to the Cursor Settings, open the MCP tab, and click on Add new global MCP server. Alternatively, go to the Cursor settings -> Features -> MCP Servers.

  1. Add the below content to the mcp.json file. Ensure that MindsDB is running locally with its MCP API enabled.
{
    "mcpServers": {
      "mindsdb": {
        "url": "http://127.0.0.1:47337/sse"
      }
    }
}
  1. Ensure that MindsDB is listed as an MCP server.

  1. Open the Cursor chat window and select the Agent mode from the dropdown.

  1. Ask questions over your data. Note that you need to approve each call of the MCP server’s tools by clicking on Run tool.

  1. The agent provides an answer with helpful suggestions of follow-up information that can be extracted from the available data.