Cursor Linked API Prompt/authentication_requirements
How to: Cursor Linked API authentication_requirements
Add Linked API to Cursor
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Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.
{
"mcpServers": {
"linkedapi-mcp": {
"url": "https://mcp.linkedapi.io/mcp"
}
}
}-
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Save the file and restart Cursor.
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authentication_requirements is surfaced in the client's prompt or command menu. Unlike a tool, you invoke it deliberately — Cursor will not call it for you.
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If it does not appear, check that Linked API is connected and that you are looking at its prompts rather than its tools.
Use .cursor/mcp.json in a project root instead to scope it to that project. Cursor merges both. Cursor docs
Set these first
Linked API will not start until these are set, so it never reaches Cursor.
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LINKED_API_TOKEN -
IDENTIFICATION_TOKEN
Same prompt, other clients
Read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling prompts/list on 5 November 2026.
A listing does not declare its prompts, 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 prompt's arguments.