Connect Lever to Cursor
Give Cursor governed access to Lever’s 13 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Lever to Cursor in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Cursor then gets it through the same governed connection.
- 1
Approve Lever in Runlayer
Add Lever 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, Lever’s 13 tools show up in Cursor’s own tool list.
Cursor setup guide - 3
Sign in to Lever
Sign in the way Lever requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
- 4
Use Lever from Cursor
Lever’s approved tools appear in Cursor. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
13 Lever tools in Cursor
Runlayer policy decides which of these Cursor users can call. 8 read data only and 1 can change or delete data.
List opportunities
List opportunities (candidates) in Lever with optional filters.
Get opportunity
Get detailed information about a specific opportunity (candidate) by ID.
Update stage
Move a candidate to a different pipeline stage.
Archive opportunity
Archive a candidate with a specific reason.
Add tags
Add tags to an opportunity (candidate).
Remove tags
Remove tags from an opportunity (candidate).
List postings
List job postings in Lever with optional filters.
Get posting
Get detailed information about a specific job posting by ID.
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 Lever 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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