Cursor Agent Workspace Practice Resource/6. Which path is easier, the governed one or the shadow one?
How to: Cursor Agent Workspace Practice 6. Which path is easier, the governed one or the shadow one?
Add Agent Workspace Practice to Cursor
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Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.
{
"mcpServers": {
"agent-workspace-practice": {
"url": "https://jamesross.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
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Save the file and restart Cursor.
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6. Which path is easier, the governed one or the shadow one? 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 Agent Workspace Practice 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 24 September 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.