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Summary
Drive Instantly (cold-email outreach platform) from any AI agent: leads, campaigns, lead lists, accounts (sending mailboxes). 8 tools, Bearer auth.
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Example prompts for Instantly
Click any prompt to copy it. Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot or OpenClaw to run it against this connector.
Claude is AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.
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Instantly + Cursor
Drive Instantly (cold-email outreach platform) from any AI agent: leads, campaigns, lead lists, accounts (sending mailboxes). 8 tools, Bearer auth.
Prerequisites
See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:
INSTANTLY_API_KEY
Step 1 — Get credentials
instantly.ai).
Setup:
- Sign in to https://app.instantly.ai → bottom-left avatar → Settings → Integrations → API → Generate New API Key.
- Set
INSTANTLY_API_KEY.
Authentication: Authorization: Bearer ${INSTANTLY_API_KEY}.
Lead state: leads have status (Active, Paused, Completed, Unsubscribed, Bounced, Skipped, Replied). Adding a lead with skip_if_in_workspace=true deduplicates.
Campaigns: sequence of email steps. Adding a lead to a campaign enrolls it in the sequence.
Accounts (sending mailboxes): each campaign sends from one or more connected mailboxes — managed in UI.
Pagination: ?starting_after=lead_id cursor.
…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)
Step 2 — Install the adapter
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d
Step 3 — Add the connector in Cursor
Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
Cursor reads MCP servers from ~/.cursor/mcp.json. Add this entry:
{
"mcpServers": {
"anythingmcp": {
"url": "https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID",
"headers": { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_MCP_API_KEY" }
}
}
}
- Get your MCP API key from AnythingMCP → MCP Servers → your server → API keys.
- Save the file and restart Cursor.
- Open Cursor → Settings → MCP to verify
Instantlyis listed and "Connected". - Start chatting — all
Instantlytools are now invokable.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
instantly_list_campaigns | List campaigns |
instantly_get_campaign | Get a campaign by ID with full settings |
instantly_get_campaign_analytics | Get campaign aggregated stats (sent, opened, replied, bounced, unsubscribed) |
instantly_list_leads | List leads |
instantly_add_lead | Add a lead to a campaign (or to a lead list if no campaign) |
instantly_update_lead_interest_status | Update a lead's interest_status (a hot/warm/cold flag set during replies) |
instantly_list_lead_lists | List lead lists (standalone, not yet in a campaign) |
instantly_list_accounts | List sending accounts (mailboxes) |
FAQ
Does Cursor support custom MCP servers on the free tier? Yes — MCP is available on Hobby, Pro and Business plans.
Next steps
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