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Notes from maintaining this directory. The paste-ready JSON still lives on theserver pages. These essays are the opinions around it.

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The Cursor MCP stack

The ten servers this directory covers, and why they belong in one mcp.json instead of twenty.

A worn leather home file next to a manila project folder on a sunlit desk

Global vs project mcp.json

When ~/.cursor/mcp.json is the right file, and when a project file should win.

Someone working on a laptop by a rain-streaked train window, no cables

When remote HTTP is enough

Most of these servers are a URL now. Local npx is the exception, not the default.

An overflowing toolbox beside three well-used tools in a patch of window light

The 40-tool limit

Cursor will load the servers. The agent will not use forty tools well. How to keep a small set.

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Stdio and the trust dialog

Local MCP servers run as you. What the warning means, and when to refuse it.

A printed UI frame taped to a wall with pencil notes, next to a laptop implementing the same layout

A Figma to Cursor loop

What the Figma remote MCP actually hands the agent, and a prompt that uses it.