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How to use Notion with Cursor

You want Notion inside Cursor so it can find and update the right project page, turn meeting notes into a follow-up page, map a Notion workspace before an agent acts, and maintain a recurring team update — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Notion gateway

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

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

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

Get started with these Notion prompts

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

Control whether an agent can read workspace content, create pages, or append changes. Pair it with Contextual Access policies to require approval before it writes to a page.

How to use Notion with Cursor

Create your Notion gateway

Create an Arcade account

Create an MCP Gateway and select your Notion 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 Notion prompts

Ready to actually ship your agent?