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Cursor is an AI-powered IDE. With AnomalyArmor’s MCP integration, you can query data health, investigate issues, and manage monitoring directly from your editor.

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Setup

Connect to AnomalyArmor’s hosted MCP server. No installation or API key required. You sign in with your AnomalyArmor account. Add to your Cursor MCP configuration: macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/mcp.json Linux: ~/.config/Cursor/mcp.json Windows: %APPDATA%\Cursor\mcp.json 
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anomalyarmor": {
      "url": "https://mcp.anomalyarmor.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
Restart Cursor after saving. You will be prompted to sign in when you first use a tool.

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Option 2: Local Server (API Key)

For air-gapped environments or custom setups, install and run the server locally. 1. Install the MCP server: 
pip install armor-mcp
2. Configure Cursor: 
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anomalyarmor": {
      "command": "armor-mcp",
      "env": {
        "ANOMALYARMOR_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}
3. Get your API key:
  1. Go to Settings > API Keys in AnomalyArmor
  2. Click Create API Key
  3. Name it “Cursor”
  4. Copy the key (it won’t be shown again)

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Usage

Open Cursor’s AI chat and ask questions about your data: 
What's the health status of my data warehouse?

Show me any stale tables

What alerts fired yesterday?

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Example Queries

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Data Health Check

User: Is my data healthy?

Cursor: Based on AnomalyArmor:

Overall Status: WARNING

Summary:
- 45 assets monitored
- 2 freshness issues
- 1 schema change pending review
- 3 alerts in last 24 hours

The orders and customers tables haven't updated in 6 hours.

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Investigate Pipeline Issues

User: Why is the orders_mart table stale?

Cursor: I checked the lineage and freshness status:

Root Cause: staging.orders_raw is stale (last update: 18 hours ago)

Dependency Chain:
  raw.events -> staging.orders_raw -> gold.orders_mart

The issue originates in the staging layer. Check your ETL job for staging.orders_raw.

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Query Schema Changes

User: What schema changes happened this week?

Cursor: Found 3 schema changes:

1. users.phone_number - Column added (Tuesday)
   Status: Acknowledged

2. orders.discount_code - Type changed VARCHAR(20) -> VARCHAR(50) (Wednesday)
   Status: Pending review

3. products.category_id - Column removed (Thursday)
   Status: Critical - may break downstream

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Available Tools

The MCP server provides 40+ tools to Cursor, including health checks, alert management, freshness monitoring, schema drift detection, data quality metrics, validity rules, AI intelligence, lineage, and tagging. See the MCP Server page for the complete tool reference.

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Troubleshooting

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MCP Server Not Found

Solution:
  1. Restart Cursor after editing mcp.json
  2. For local mode, verify armor-mcp is installed: armor-mcp --version
  3. Check JSON syntax in config file

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Authentication Failed (Remote)

Solution:
  1. Re-open Cursor to trigger a fresh sign-in prompt
  2. Verify you can sign in to app.anomalyarmor.ai
  3. Check that your Cursor version supports streamable-http MCP transport

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Authentication Failed (Local)

Solution:
  1. Verify API key in mcp.json
  2. Check key is not expired or revoked
  3. Generate a new key from Settings > API Keys

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No Data Returned

Solution:
  1. Verify you have data sources connected in AnomalyArmor
  2. Try a simpler query like “health summary”
  3. For remote mode, try removing and re-adding the server config to clear cached auth

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Next Steps

MCP Server

Advanced configuration

Claude Code

Claude Code integration

Python SDK

Programmatic access

API Reference

REST API documentation