Cursor Sequential Thinking sequentialthinking

Add Sequential Thinking to Cursor

1. 01

   Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "server-sequential-thinking": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-sequential-thinking"
      ]
    }
  }
}

2. 02

   Save the file and restart Cursor.

3. 03

   Ask for something sequentialthinking does. Cursor lists the server's tools on connect and calls sequentialthinking itself — you do not invoke it by name.

4. 04

   If nothing happens, check the server is running and that Sequential Thinking's identifier in your config matches the one above exactly.

Use .cursor/mcp.json in a project root instead to scope it to that project. Cursor merges both. Cursor docs

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