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How to use Google Calendar with Cursor

You want Google Calendar inside Cursor so it can schedule meetings when everyone is free, triage incoming calendar invitations, keep recurring meeting details current, and remove obsolete calendar events — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Google Calendar gateway

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

In the dashboard, create a gateway and pick the Google Calendar 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 Google Calendar 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 Google Calendar tools.

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

Try these calendar prompts

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

Use tool permissions and approvals to prevent an agent from deleting events or changing meetings without a person checking first. Pair it with Contextual Access policies so scheduling stays scoped to the calendars and actions the agent needs.

How to use Google Calendar with Cursor

Create your Google Calendar gateway

Create an Arcade account

Create an MCP Gateway and select your Google Calendar tools

Copy your gateway URL

Connect the gateway to Cursor

Open MCP settings

Add the gateway to mcpServers

Try it out

Try these calendar prompts

Ready to actually ship your agent?