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Connect Granola to Cursor

Give Cursor governed access to Granola’s 7 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Granola to Cursor in four steps

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

  1. 1

    Approve Granola in Runlayer

    Add Granola from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.

  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, Granola’s 7 tools show up in Cursor’s own tool list.

    Cursor setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Granola

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

  4. 4

    Use Granola from Cursor

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

Tools

7 Granola tools in Cursor

Runlayer policy decides which of these Cursor users can call. 4 read data only.

  • Get account info

    Get the email, active workspace, joined workspaces (names and IDs), and effective note-access scopes for the Granola account currently connected to this MCP session.

  • Get meeting transcript

    Get the full transcript for a specific Granola meeting by ID.

  • Get meetings

    Get detailed meeting information for one or more Granola meetings by ID.

  • List meeting folders

    List the user's Granola meeting folders.

  • List meetings

    List the user's Granola meeting notes within a time range.

  • Query Granola meetings

    Query Granola about the user's meetings using natural language.

  • Switch workspace

    Change your saved active Granola workspace.

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 Granola 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.

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