Context.dev for Cursor

August 18, 2026 · View on GitHub

The official Context.dev plugin for Cursor. Give Cursor reliable access to the live web: search, scraping, crawling, structured extraction, document parsing, brand intelligence, screenshots, recurring monitors, and large asynchronous batches.

Install and connect

Install Context.dev from the Cursor Marketplace.
Open Cursor Settings → Tools & MCP and enable the context server.
Select Connect or Authenticate, then sign in to Context.dev and approve access.

The plugin connects to https://mcp.context.dev/mcp with OAuth. You do not need to copy an API key into Cursor.

If an older installation still shows a legacy Context.dev server, remove that manual server and reinstall or refresh the plugin.

Try it

Ask Cursor:

Use Context.dev to search for Stripe's latest official product announcements and cite the source URLs.

Use Context.dev to scrape https://www.context.dev/pricing and summarize the plans.

Use Context.dev to retrieve the brand profile for linear.app, including its logo, colors, fonts, and social profiles.

Cursor automatically selects the appropriate Context.dev tool. Tool calls require normal Cursor approval, and account-changing tools such as monitor, batch, cancel, update, and delete operations should only run when explicitly requested.

Included

Component	What it provides
MCP server	The production Context.dev MCP with 34 direct, typed tools and OAuth
Skills	Focused MCP workflows, direct API guidance, Cursor connection help, and Logo Link integration
Commands	`/brand-colors`, `/scrape-url`, `/search-web`, and `/extract-web-data`
Rules	Routes live-web tasks to the right Context.dev tool and keeps credentials out of client code

Skill catalog

Skill	When Cursor uses it
`context-search`	Live web research and source discovery
`context-scrape`	Markdown, HTML, images, or screenshots from one known URL
`context-crawl`	Sitemap discovery and focused multi-page crawling
`context-extract`	Schema-shaped JSON from websites
`context-parse`	PDFs, Office files, images, and other local document bytes
`context-brand`	Brand profiles, design systems, fonts, and industry codes
`context-monitor`	Recurring website-change detection and history
`context-batches`	Large asynchronous scrape and crawl jobs
`context-dev`	Building directly with the Context.dev REST API or SDKs
`connect-context-dev`	OAuth setup and MCP troubleshooting
`logolink`	Safe dynamic company logos in frontend applications

MCP tool catalog

Group	Tools
Parse	`parse-document`
Scrape and crawl	`web-scrape-html`, `web-scrape-markdown`, `web-scrape-images`, `web-scrape-sitemap`, `web-crawl`, `web-screenshot`
Extract and search	`web-extract`, `web-search`, `web-naics`, `web-sic`
Brand and design	`get-brand`, `brand-retrieve-unified`, `web-styleguide`, `web-fonts`
Batches	`submit-batch`, `list-batches`, `get-batch`, `get-batch-results`, `cancel-batch`, `delete-batch`
Monitors	`create-monitor`, `list-monitors`, `get-monitor`, `update-monitor`, `delete-monitor`, `run-monitor-now`, `list-monitor-runs`, `get-monitor-run`, `list-monitor-changes`, `list-account-runs`, `list-monitor-credit-usage`, `list-changes`, `get-change`

For a known page, use web-scrape-markdown. Use web-search when the URL is unknown, web-crawl for a focused multi-page request, and submit-batch for up to 25,000 URLs or a large asynchronous crawl.

Building with the Context.dev API

OAuth connects Cursor to the MCP server. If you are writing application code that calls the Context.dev REST API or SDK directly, create an API key in the Context.dev dashboard and keep it in a server-side CONTEXT_DEV_API_KEY environment variable. Never put a private API key in browser code or commit it to source control.

The bundled context-dev API reference is synchronized from docs.context.dev/skill.md. Its Cursor activation description is narrowed to direct API and SDK development, while the focused OAuth skills route interactive work through the public production MCP tools.

Local development

Validate the repository and confirm that the bundled API skill matches the published documentation:

node scripts/validate-plugin.mjs
node scripts/sync-skill.mjs --check
node scripts/check-mcp-oauth.mjs

Load the plugin from this checkout using Cursor's documented local-plugin directory:

mkdir -p ~/.cursor/plugins/local
rsync -a --delete --exclude '.git/' ./ ~/.cursor/plugins/local/context-dev/

Then run Developer: Reload Window in Cursor and verify that the context MCP server, four commands, eleven skills, and two rules appear. A copied directory is used because current Cursor builds reject local-plugin symlinks whose targets are outside ~/.cursor/plugins/local.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.