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How to use Snowflake with Cursor

You want Snowflake inside Cursor so it can answer questions from warehouse data, audit accessible data assets, validate a table before building a query, and compare records across reporting periods — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Snowflake gateway

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

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

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

Get started with Snowflake prompts

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

Keep access tied to each user's Snowflake role, and restrict agents to discovery and read-only SELECT queries. Pair it with Contextual Access policies so an agent can inspect data without gaining write or administrative access.

How to use Snowflake with Cursor

Create your Snowflake gateway

Create an Arcade account

Create an MCP Gateway and select your Snowflake tools

Copy your gateway URL

Connect the gateway to Cursor

Open MCP settings

Add the gateway to mcpServers

Try it out

Get started with Snowflake prompts

Ready to actually ship your agent?