How to Connect SISTRIX to Cursor via MCP

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SISTRIX + Cursor

Give your AI SISTRIX SEO data: the Visibility Index (Sichtbarkeitsindex) and its history, ranking keywords, competitors, top URLs, keyword rankings, metrics and questions, and backlinks, with the credit cost of every call.

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:

SISTRIX_API_KEY

Step 1 — Get credentials

1. API access and weekly API credits come with SISTRIX plans from Plus upwards.
2. In the SISTRIX Toolbox, open Account → API access (https://app.sistrix.com/account/api) and create or copy an API key.
3. Paste it into SISTRIX_API_KEY and install the connector. The key is stored encrypted, added to each request by the connector and sent only to api.sistrix.com.
4. Start with sistrix_get_credits: it is free and shows how many credits are left this week.

Paid from your own SISTRIX credits: every call spends API credits from your account's weekly allowance. Most functions cost 1 credit per row returned (per keyword, URL, competitor, link or value); sistrix_domain_overview costs 5 credits, sistrix_keyword_metrics 5 per keyword and sistrix_links_overview 25. SISTRIX itself returns 100 rows when no limit is sent (10,000 links for backlinks), so every list tool here starts at 10 rows, and sistrix_backlinks costs at most 250 credits per request. A full Visibility Index history can run to hundreds of values, so the AI sets a limit. sistrix_get_credits and sistrix_list_countries are free, and every answer ends with the credits it used.

What it does: the SISTRIX Visibility Index (Sichtbarkeitsindex) now, for a past week, as weekly history or as daily values for the last 30 days; the number of ranking keywords and how they spread over Google's first ten result pages; SEO competitors with their similarity; ranking keywords with position and URL; the best-ranking URLs and the paths with the most estimated clicks; keyword opportunities just beyond page one; who ranks for a keyword, and a site's ranking history for it; keyword metrics, search traffic and question queries; and backlinks, link totals and anchor texts. Every tool only reads.

What to analyse: the domain tools take a whole domain (with all subdomains), a host, a path or a single URL. country is a lower-case code (de, at, ch, uk, us, it, fr, es and more); without it SISTRIX uses the account's default country, usually de. A date asks for the weekly value of a past week.

Reading the answers: search traffic on keywords is SISTRIX's index from 0 to 100, not visits; competition also runs from 0 to 100.

Common errors: 100 (wrong api key) or 403 (permission denied): the key is wrong or the plan has no API access. 200 (not enough credits): the weekly credits are used up; sistrix_get_credits shows the balance. 1000, 2000 or 3000: SISTRIX has no data for this domain or keyword in this country. 1002 or 1003: a parameter is invalid or missing, for example no domain, host, path or URL. 429: more than 300 requests a minute.

The connector does not cover SISTRIX projects (Optimizer), the AI visibility functions, the Amazon marketplace functions, Google Ads (SEM) data or bulk keyword requests.

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 SISTRIX tools.

Available tools

Example prompts

• "What is the SISTRIX Visibility Index of example.de today, and how did it develop week by week over the last six months?"
• "Who are the SEO competitors of example.de in Germany, and how does their Visibility Index compare to ours?"
• "Which keywords does example.de rank for beyond page one that could reach page one with little effort?"
• "Who ranks in the top 10 for 'wärmepumpe kaufen' in Germany, and which questions do people search around it?"
• "How many SISTRIX credits do we have left this week?"

FAQ

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

Next steps

• Connector landing page
• Connect to Claude
• Connect to ChatGPT