Cursor Star Wars API & MCP server (swapi.build) Resource/planets
How to: Cursor Star Wars API & MCP server (swapi.build) planets
Add Star Wars API & MCP server (swapi.build) to Cursor
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Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.
{
"mcpServers": {
"star-wars": {
"url": "https://swapi.build/mcp"
}
}
}-
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Save the file and restart Cursor.
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planets is surfaced wherever your client lets you attach context. It is context to attach, not an action to run.
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If it does not appear, check that Star Wars API & MCP server (swapi.build) is connected and that you are looking at its resources rather than its tools.
Use .cursor/mcp.json in a project root instead to scope it to that project. Cursor merges both. Cursor docs
Same resource, other clients
Read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling resources/list on 14 November 2026.
A listing does not declare its resources, so asking is the only way to know them, and this
is what the server actually offers rather than what its listing claims. Names only are
stored; connect the server for each resource's type and contents.