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How to use Telegram with Cursor

You want Telegram inside Cursor so it can triage incoming bot messages, respond to support requests, send a voice update, and wait for a Telegram response — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Telegram gateway

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

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

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

Try these Telegram prompts

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

Use scoped credentials and permissions to limit which Telegram actions an agent can take. Pair it with Contextual Access policies so an agent can read incoming messages without being allowed to send messages or audio.

How to use Telegram with Cursor

Create your Telegram gateway

Create an Arcade account

Create an MCP Gateway and select your Telegram tools

Copy your gateway URL

Connect the gateway to Cursor

Open MCP settings

Add the gateway to mcpServers

Try it out

Try these Telegram prompts

Ready to actually ship your agent?