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How to use PostHog with Cursor

You want PostHog inside Cursor so it can investigate a drop in conversion, review an experiment before rollout, triage production errors, and maintain product analytics dashboards — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your PostHog gateway

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

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

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

Get started with these PostHog prompts

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

Use scoped credentials and tool permissions to control which PostHog actions an agent can take. Pair it with Contextual Access policies so an agent can analyze product data without being allowed to change a feature flag, delete an insight, or archive an experiment.

How to use PostHog with Cursor

Create your PostHog gateway

Create an Arcade account

Create an MCP Gateway and select your PostHog 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 PostHog prompts

Ready to actually ship your agent?