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How to use Spotify with Cursor

You want Spotify inside Cursor so it can control the current listening session, start music for a specific artist, build and play a short set of tracks, and diagnose and adjust playback — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Spotify gateway

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

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

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

Try these Spotify prompts

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

Use permissions to let an agent search music and inspect playback without starting songs or changing the queue. Pair it with Contextual Access policies to require approval before playback changes.

How to use Spotify with Cursor

Create your Spotify gateway

Create an Arcade account

Create an MCP Gateway and select your Spotify tools

Copy your gateway URL

Connect the gateway to Cursor

Open MCP settings

Add the gateway to mcpServers

Try it out

Try these Spotify prompts

Ready to actually ship your agent?