How to Connect Miro to Cursor via MCP

💡 No install? Use cloud.anythingmcp.com directly. Sign in, click Connectors → Miro, paste your credentials, mint an MCP API key and you're done. No Docker, no git clone, no local server.

Miro + Cursor

Let your AI work on your Miro boards: find boards, read what is on them, add and edit sticky notes, shapes, text, cards and frames, connect them with lines, organise with tags, and see who has access. Signed in with your Miro account.

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:

MIRO_CLIENT_ID, MIRO_CLIENT_SECRET

Step 1 — Get credentials

1. In Miro, click your avatar → Settings → Your apps (or open miro.com/app/settings/user-profile/apps) and click + Create new app. If you have no developer team yet, Miro asks you to create one first; it is free.
2. Name the app (for example "AnythingMCP"), pick the developer team, tick Expire user authorization token and click Create app. This choice cannot be changed later. Without it the token never expires, which also works but is less safe.
3. On the app page, under Redirect URI for OAuth2.0, add https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/api/mcp-oauth/callback and click Add. If you host AnythingMCP yourself, enter https://your-anythingmcp-host/api/mcp-oauth/callback instead. The URI must match character for character.
4. Under Permissions, tick boards:read and boards:write.
5. Copy Client ID and Client secret from App Credentials into MIRO_CLIENT_ID and MIRO_CLIENT_SECRET. The Client ID is a long number.
6. Install the connector, click Authorize with Provider on the connector page, choose the Miro team whose boards the AI should work with and click Install & authorize.
7. Start with miro_get_token_info to check the user, the team and the granted permissions, then let the AI find a board with miro_list_boards.

Staying signed in: the AI sees and changes the boards that the Miro user who authorized can open, in the team picked during authorization. To reach the boards of another team, authorize again and pick that team. Access tokens last an hour and are renewed automatically. The refresh token lasts 60 days and renews with every use, so a connector left unused for two months needs Authorize with Provider again.

Permissions and read-only setup: tick only boards:read, authorize again, and switch off every tool that creates, changes or deletes: miro_create_board, miro_update_board, miro_copy_board, miro_create_sticky_note, miro_update_sticky_note, miro_create_shape, miro_update_shape, miro_create_text, miro_update_text, miro_create_card, miro_update_card, miro_create_frame, miro_update_frame, miro_move_item, miro_delete_item, miro_create_connector, miro_update_connector, miro_delete_connector, miro_create_tag, miro_update_tag, miro_delete_tag, miro_attach_tag and miro_remove_tag_from_item.

Switched off at install: miro_delete_board, which deletes a whole board with everything on it, miro_share_board, which makes Miro email an invitation to the people named, and miro_update_board_member and miro_remove_board_member, which change or remove someone's access. Turn them on only if the AI should delete boards or manage who has access.

Deleting is final: miro_delete_item removes an item for good, with no undo through the API, and deleting a frame leaves its contents on the board. miro_delete_tag takes the tag off every item that carries it. The AI asks before deleting anything it did not just create.

Tags and plans: only cards and sticky notes can carry tags, at most 8 each, and tag changes show on an open board after a refresh. The Miro API is free to use, but free teams may hold only 3 editable boards, so miro_create_board and miro_copy_board can fail there. Boards in a developer team carry a watermark.

Common errors: 401 (tokenNotProvided) means the authorization expired or was revoked: click Authorize with Provider again, and if the app was deleted or its secret reset, update MIRO_CLIENT_SECRET first. 403 means a missing permission (boards:write for changes) or no access to that board: tick the permission in the app settings and authorize again. 404 means a wrong board or item id. 400 (invalidParameters) names the field that is wrong. 409 means the item changed at the same moment: read it again and retry. 429 means Miro is rate limiting this user: wait a minute. Creating a frame sometimes fails with 500 "Internal error occurred" for a few minutes; the same request works again after a short wait.

The connector does not handle images, documents and embeds (it only lists them), app cards, comments, mind maps, exports, or team and organization administration.

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 shows YOUR_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" }
    }
  }
}

1. Create an MCP API key in AnythingMCP under MCP Servers → your server → API keys, and paste it in place of YOUR_MCP_API_KEY.
2. Save the file and restart Cursor.
3. Open Cursor → Settings → MCP and check that anythingmcp is listed and connected.
4. Start chatting: the agent can now call the Miro tools.

Available tools

Example prompts

• "Find our Q3 Retrospective board and summarise the sticky notes in each frame."
• "Who has access to the Checkout redesign board, and what role does each person have?"
• "On the Product roadmap board, add a frame called Next sprint with three yellow sticky notes: Login fix, Search filters and Onboarding emails."
• "Show me all cards tagged Blocked on the Sprint planning board, with their assignees and due dates."

FAQ

Does Cursor support custom MCP servers on the free tier? Yes, MCP is available on Hobby, Pro and Business plans.

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