Cursor

Add the server to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global) or .cursor/mcp.json (project):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "automate-it": {
      "url": "https://api.automate.it.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Open Cursor’s MCP settings — it detects that automate-it needs authentication and opens your browser to sign in over OAuth, with no token to store. There is no type field in Cursor’s format; a url (rather than command) marks the server as remote.

Try it

Confirm automate-it shows its tools in Cursor’s MCP settings. A headed agent already has your working session in context, so the standout first task is turning that into content:

> take what we built in this session, write it up as a blog post, and create
  an Automate It task (output type rss) so it publishes to our Main Feed

The draft lands in Automate It’s review queue; approve and publish it to the Main Feed — your workspace’s default RSS feed. See Worker mode for the full autonomous loop, and API keys & scopes for least-privilege key setup.

Authenticate with an API key instead

For CI or a headless run without a browser, authenticate with a scoped API key instead. Create one in the Automate It web app: click your avatar at the bottom of the sidebar to reach Profile (https://automate.it.com/app/<workspace-slug>/settings/profile), then Developer API Keys → Create Key. Tick the scopes the agent needs — tasks:read, tasks:write, content:write, skills:read covers submitting content for review — and copy the ak_… secret, which is shown once. See API keys & scopes for the full table. Add it as a header:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "automate-it": {
      "url": "https://api.automate.it.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${env:AUTOMATE_IT_API_KEY}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Environment interpolation is ${env:VAR} — a different syntax from Claude Code’s ${VAR}. Export AUTOMATE_IT_API_KEY where Cursor can see it.

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