Connect Amplitude to Cursor
Give Cursor governed access to Amplitude’s 49 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Amplitude to Cursor in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Cursor then gets it through the same governed connection.
- 1
Approve Amplitude in Runlayer
Add Amplitude from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.
- 2
Connect Cursor to Runlayer
Runlayer’s CLI installs the Runlayer Plugin natively in Cursor, and admins can roll it out org-wide with Auto Sync plus a Cursor team rule. With direct tool listing turned on for your deployment, Amplitude’s 49 tools show up in Cursor’s own tool list.
Cursor setup guide - 3
Sign in to Amplitude
Sign in the way Amplitude requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
- 4
Use Amplitude from Cursor
Amplitude’s approved tools appear in Cursor. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
49 Amplitude tools in Cursor
Runlayer policy decides which of these Cursor users can call.
Create group types
Create one or more group types in a project, OR add already-ingested group types with status "unexpected" to the tracking plan.
Create properties
Create one or more properties in a project's tracking plan.
Delete event properties
Delete one or more event properties in a project.
Delete user properties
Delete one or more user properties in a project.
Get agent results
Retrieve results from AI agents that have analyzed your dashboards or session replays.
Get amp session replay info
Unified entry point for session replay data: find replays and inspect what happened in them.
Get amp taxonomy
Read a project's tracking plan: the events it defines, the properties on them, what a branch changes relative to main, who changed what when, and a CSV download of the plan.
Get amp user data
Look up Amplitude users.
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in Cursor
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Cursor exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Amplitude call from Cursor passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, Cursor as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.
Client hooks (available)
Capture supported prompts, reasoning, local and MCP tool calls, responses, and scanner decisions in real time.
Stop a call before it runs (available)
Runlayer can deny a tool call before Cursor runs it, including calls to MCP servers.
Block output after it runs (available)
Runlayer can block a tool’s output before Cursor’s model sees it.
Redact output in place (not available)
Cursor cannot take masked output, so Runlayer can block a tool’s output but not mask it. The gateway still applies policy to the call.
In Cursor
- Runlayer cannot tell Agents Window sessions apart from regular IDE sessions.
- The Cursor CLI sends fewer session events than the IDE, but Runlayer’s allow and deny decisions still apply.
Frequently asked questions
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