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How to use Discord Bot with Cursor

You want Discord Bot inside Cursor so it can answer recurring channel questions, triage active discussion threads, publish and organize an announcement, and moderate a flagged conversation — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Discord Bot gateway

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

In the dashboard, create a gateway and pick the Discord Bot 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 Discord Bot 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 Discord Bot tools.

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

Get started with these Discord prompts

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

Use permissions to control whether an agent can post, pin, edit, or delete Discord messages. Pair it with Contextual Access policies so an agent can search conversations without being allowed to send or delete anything.

How to use Discord Bot with Cursor

Create your Discord Bot gateway

Create an Arcade account

Create an MCP Gateway and select your Discord Bot 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 Discord prompts

Ready to actually ship your agent?