Set up Cursor with Remote MCP

Scenario

If Users want to set up the OvalEdge Remote MCP Server with the Cursor AI Tool to enable AI-assisted metadata discovery, catalog search, glossary exploration, lineage analysis, profiling insights, and governed data exploration from OvalEdge.

Steps Involved

1. Log in to the OvalEdge application.

2. Click the Profile icon in the top-right corner and click My Profile.

   
3. Click the 9-Dot menu icon, then select Download User API Credentials.

   
4. Click Download User API Credentials in the confirmation dialog box.

   
5. Navigate to the Downloads folder on the local system.

   
6. Locate the downloaded .credentials file, right-click it, and select Open with.

   
7. Select Notepad or any text editor.

8. Copy the generated userToken and userSecret values from the credentials file.

   
9. Open the Cursor AI application and click the Settings icon.

   
10. Select Tools & MCPs from the left navigation panel.

    
11. Click Add Custom MCP under the User MCP Servers section.

    
12. Copy the Cursor HTTP MCP Configuration JSON file and add it within the mcp.json placeholder.

    Copy

    {
      "mcpServers": {
        "ovaledge-remote": {
          "url": "https://YOUR_OvalEdge_MCP_ENDPOINT/mcp",
          "headers": {
            "X-OvalEdge-Token": "Your OvalEdge User Token",
            "X-OvalEdge-Secret": "Your OvalEdge User Secret"
          }
        }
      }
    }

    
13. Replace the placeholder MCP URL with the OvalEdge Remote MCP server URL.

    
14. Replace the X-OvalEdge-Token value with the copied userToken.

    
15. Replace the X-OvalEdge-Secret value with the copied userSecret.

    
16. Click the 3-Dot icon in the editor and click Save File to save the MCP configuration.

    
17. Verify that the ovaledge-remote MCP server appears under the User MCP Servers section with active tools and resources enabled.

    
18. Click the Back option in the Settings.

    
19. Click New Agent in Cursor AI.

    
20. Enter a metadata retrieval prompt such as Retrieve metadata from "Customer" Table?.

    
21. Click the Send icon.

22. Verify that Cursor AI retrieves and displays metadata from the OvalEdge platform through the Remote MCP integration.

    

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