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How to use Asana with Cursor

You want Asana inside Cursor so it can triage overdue project work, turn project gaps into assigned work, prepare a project status report, and close completed task backlogs — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Asana gateway

The gateway is the thing Cursor connects to, and it is where you decide which Asana 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 Asana tools

In the dashboard, create a gateway and pick the Asana 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 Asana 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 Asana tools.

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

Get started with these Asana prompts

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

Require approval before an agent creates, updates, completes, or attaches files to tasks. Pair it with Contextual Access policies to limit each user's access to the Asana data and actions their agent needs.

How to use Asana with Cursor

Create your Asana gateway

Create an Arcade account

Create an MCP Gateway and select your Asana tools

Copy your gateway URL

Connect the gateway to Cursor

Open MCP settings

Add the gateway to mcpServers

Try it out

Get started with these Asana prompts

Ready to actually ship your agent?