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Connect Chronosphere to Cursor

Give Cursor governed access to Chronosphere’s 31 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

Set up

Add Chronosphere to Cursor in four steps

Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Cursor then gets it through the same governed connection.

  1. 1

    Add Chronosphere to Runlayer

    Chronosphere isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.

    Adding a connector manually
  2. 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, Chronosphere’s 31 tools show up in Cursor’s own tool list.

    Cursor setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Chronosphere

    Sign in the way Chronosphere requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.

  4. 4

    Use Chronosphere from Cursor

    Chronosphere’s approved tools appear in Cursor. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.

Tools

31 Chronosphere tools in Cursor

Runlayer policy decides which of these Cursor users can call.

  • Get dashboard

    Get dashboards resource

  • Get drop rule

    Get drop-rules resource

  • Get events metadata

    List properties you can query on events

  • Get log

    Get a full log message by its ID.

  • Get log histogram

    Get histogram of logs from a given query

  • Get mapping rule

    Get mapping-rules resource

  • Get monitor

    Get monitors resource

  • Get notification policy

    Get notification-policies resource

See all 31 Chronosphere tools

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 Chronosphere 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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