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How to use Google Search with Cursor

You want Google Search inside Cursor so it can research a technical question, compare competing products, find authoritative sources, and monitor a topic for new coverage — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Google Search gateway

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

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

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

Try these search prompts

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

Keep Google Search read-only and treat returned pages as untrusted input. Pair it with Contextual Access policies to control which agents can search with the shared credential and keep search results from authorizing other actions.

How to use Google Search with Cursor

Create your Google Search gateway

Create an Arcade account

Create an MCP Gateway and select your Google Search tools

Copy your gateway URL

Connect the gateway to Cursor

Open MCP settings

Add the gateway to mcpServers

Try it out

Try these search prompts

Ready to actually ship your agent?