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Connect Neon to Cursor

Give Cursor governed access to Neon’s 29 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

Set up

Add Neon to Cursor in four steps

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

  1. 1

    Approve Neon in Runlayer

    Add Neon 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, Neon’s 29 tools show up in Cursor’s own tool list.

    Cursor setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Neon

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

  4. 4

    Use Neon from Cursor

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

Tools

29 Neon tools in Cursor

Runlayer policy decides which of these Cursor users can call.

  • List projects

    Lists the first 10 Neon projects in your account.

  • List organizations

    Lists all organizations that the current user has access to.

  • List shared projects

    Lists projects that have been shared with the current user.

  • Create project

    Create a new Neon project.

  • Delete project

    Delete a Neon project

  • Describe project

    Describes a Neon project

  • Run SQL

    Execute a single SQL statement against a Neon database.

  • Run SQL transaction

    Execute a SQL transaction against a Neon database, should be used for multiple SQL statements.

See all 29 Neon 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 Neon 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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