Security for Cursor Development: Extensions and cloud agents

Part 12 of 16

Extensions and cloud agents

  • MCP servers: install from an approved list, pin versions, pass secrets as ${env:NAME}, and give servers that read tickets, errors, chat or email read-only scopes, since outsiders write that content (The Hacker News).
  • Extensions: install only from your organisation’s allowlist and publishers you can verify.
  • Cloud agents: “The agent has internet access by default”, so choose “Default + allowlist” or “Allowlist only”, and give environments only the secrets a task needs (Cursor docs).