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Use Mnem with Cursor
Give Cursor's agent long-term memory: past decisions, conventions, and context surface mid-task — and new ones are saved as you go.
What you get
- The
recall,remember,chat, andmemory_statustools, available to Cursor's agent in every project - Context from every other connected app — a decision made in Claude or Zed surfaces in Cursor
- Optional auto-capture of your Cursor exchanges (off until you turn it on)
Connect
One-click setup from the Connections panel.
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Open Connections
Click the Mnem icon in your menu bar and open the Connections panel.
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Connect Cursor
Find Cursor and click Connect. Mnem writes an MCP server entry into Cursor's MCP configuration for you.
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Restart Cursor
Quit and reopen Cursor (or reload MCP servers from Cursor's MCP settings) — servers are loaded at startup.
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Verify
Ask the agent “What do you remember about me?”, or check that
mnemappears in Cursor's MCP tool list.
Troubleshooting
If the tools don't appear, make sure Cursor was fully restarted. If a project defines its own project-level MCP config, it can shadow the global entry — add the same server there or remove the override. Calling memory_status is the quickest end-to-end check.