How to connect Hugging Face to Cursor

1. 1. Enable Hugging Face in Metorial

   In your Metorial portal, enable the Hugging Face 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 Hugging Face tools.

• Control Space: Control a Space's lifecycle: pause, restart, or change hardware.
• Run Inference: Run generic inference on any Hugging Face model.
• Create Discussion: Create a new discussion or pull request on a Hugging Face repository.
• Search Datasets: Search for datasets on Hugging Face Hub.
• Create Collection: Create a new collection to curate related models, datasets, and Spaces.
• Manage Space Secrets: Add or delete secrets on a Space.
• Get Discussion: Get detailed information about a specific discussion or pull request, including all comments and events.
• List Discussions: List discussions and pull requests on a Hugging Face repository.
• Get User Info: Get information about the authenticated user, including username, email, organizations, and account details.
• Create Repository: Create a new model, dataset, or Space repository on Hugging Face Hub.
• Delete Repository: Permanently delete a model, dataset, or Space repository from Hugging Face Hub.
• Upload File: Upload or update a text file in a Hugging Face repository.
• Remove Collection Item: Remove an item from a collection.
• Update Repository Visibility: Change a repository's visibility between public and private.
• List Repository Files: List files and directories in a Hugging Face repository at a given path and revision.
• And 14 more on the Hugging Face MCP server page.

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