How to connect Digitalocean to Cursor

1. 1. Enable Digitalocean in Metorial

   In your Metorial portal, enable the Digitalocean 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 Digitalocean tools.

• Manage Node Pools: List, add, or remove node pools in a Kubernetes cluster.
• Get App: Get detailed information about an App Platform application, including its full specification, deployment status, and URLs.
• Manage Firewall: List, create, or delete cloud firewalls.
• Deploy App: Trigger a new deployment for an App Platform application.
• Get Account: Get your DigitalOcean account information including email, Droplet limit, billing status, and team details.
• Manage Database Users: List, create, or delete users on a managed database cluster.
• Manage Project: Create, update, or delete a project.
• List Snapshots: List snapshots of Droplets and volumes.
• Create Droplet: Create a new Droplet (virtual machine) in DigitalOcean.
• Create Domain: Add a new domain to DigitalOcean DNS management.
• List Kubernetes Clusters: List all managed Kubernetes clusters in your DigitalOcean account.
• Droplet Action: Perform an action on a Droplet: **power_on**, **power_off**, **reboot**, **shutdown** (graceful), **resize**, **rebuild**, **rename**, or **snapshot**.
• Manage Tags: List, create, delete tags, or tag/untag resources.
• Delete Volume: Delete a block storage volume.
• List Alert Policies: List all monitoring alert policies.
• And 31 more on the Digitalocean MCP server page.

• Cursor picks MCP tools automatically when they are relevant, including in Plan Mode. Name a Digitalocean 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 Digitalocean 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.