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How to use LinkedIn with Cursor

You want LinkedIn inside Cursor so it can publish a product announcement, share a team update, promote an upcoming event, and repurpose approved company news — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your LinkedIn gateway

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

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

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

Try these LinkedIn prompts

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

Publishing a LinkedIn post is a public write, so require approval before the agent can do it. Use Contextual Access policies to apply that policy to LinkedIn post publishing and limit which authorized accounts may be used.

How to use LinkedIn with Cursor

Create your LinkedIn gateway

Create an Arcade account

Create an MCP Gateway and select your LinkedIn tools

Copy your gateway URL

Connect the gateway to Cursor

Open MCP settings

Add the gateway to mcpServers

Try it out

Try these LinkedIn prompts

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