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How to use Airtable with Cursor

You want Airtable inside Cursor so it can find records that need attention, sync structured records safely, review a base before changing it, and clean up duplicate records — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Airtable gateway

The gateway is the thing Cursor connects to, and it is where you decide which Airtable tools an agent may use. You create it once and every client reuses it.

Create an Arcade account

Sign up and open the dashboard. The free tier is enough to follow this through.
Create an MCP Gateway and select your Airtable tools

In the dashboard, create a gateway and pick the Airtable tools you want to expose. The gateway is what your client connects to, and it is where tool access is decided.
Copy your gateway URL

Every client below needs it.
```
https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>
```

Create a Airtable gateway Opens the gateway builder in your Arcade dashboard.

Connect the gateway to Cursor

Heads up

Cursor does not refresh MCP OAuth tokens automatically. For a persistent connection, set Authorization to “Arcade Headers” on the gateway in the dashboard.

Open MCP settings

Command Palette (⌘⇧P / Ctrl+Shift+P) → Open MCP Settings, then click “New MCP Server”.

Add the gateway to mcpServers

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-arcade": {
      "url": "https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>"
    }
  }
}

Try it out

Ask Cursor to use one of your Airtable tools.

Full Cursor guide in the docs steps verified 2026-08-13

Try these Airtable prompts

Cursor can now act on your Airtable account. Click a prompt to copy it.

Limit access to authorized users and require approval before records are created, changed, or deleted. Pair it with Contextual Access policies so an agent can update a base without being allowed to delete rows.

How to use Airtable with Cursor

Create your Airtable gateway

Create an Arcade account

Create an MCP Gateway and select your Airtable tools

Copy your gateway URL

Connect the gateway to Cursor

Open MCP settings

Add the gateway to mcpServers

Try it out

Try these Airtable prompts

Ready to actually ship your agent?