How to connect Asana to Cursor

1. 1. Enable Asana in Metorial

   In your Metorial portal, enable the Asana MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.

2. 2. Add Metorial to your MCP config

   Use ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project, or .cursor/mcp.json for one.

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   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "metorial": {
         "url": "<your-magic-mcp-url>"
       }
     }
   }

3. 3. Sign in

   Open Customize in the sidebar, find Metorial and sign in to load Asana tools.

• Get Project: Retrieve full details for a project including members, followers, custom fields, and settings.
• List Workspaces: List all workspaces accessible to the authenticated user.
• List Projects: List projects in a workspace, optionally filtered by team or archived status.
• Update Project: Update an existing project's name, notes, dates, color, layout, archived status, or privacy setting.
• Update Task: Update an existing task's properties.
• List Subtasks: List all subtasks of a given task.
• List Goals: List goals in a workspace, team, or portfolio.
• List Comments: List stories (comments and activity) on a task.
• Search Tasks: Search for tasks in a workspace using various filters like text, assignee, projects, tags, completion status, and date ranges.
• Create Section: Create a new section in a project.
• Get Goal: Get full details for a goal including its metric, notes, and followers.
• Get User: Get details for a specific user by their GID, or use "me" to get the authenticated user's profile.
• Create Tag: Create a new tag in a workspace.
• List Tags: List all tags in a workspace.
• List Tasks: List tasks filtered by exactly one of projectId, sectionId, or assigneeId (with workspaceId).
• And 20 more on the Asana MCP server page.

• Cursor picks MCP tools automatically when they are relevant, including in Plan Mode. Name a Asana tool to steer it.
• Cursor asks for approval before it uses an MCP tool by default. Click the arrow next to the tool name to check the arguments first.
• Switch the Metorial server off from Customize in the sidebar without removing it.
• Cursor shows each Asana tool response in chat, with expandable views of the arguments and the result.

Metorial connects but tools are missing or failing

Open the Output panel (Cmd+Shift+U), choose MCP Logs, and look for authentication or connection errors.

Your company blocks the server

Enterprise admins approve remote servers in Team Settings, then MCP Configuration. Ask them to add a URL entry for your Metorial URL.

Cursor asks before every tool call

That is the default. Allowlist the Metorial tools you trust in your Run Mode settings to run them without a prompt.

Based on the Cursor MCP documentation.