How to connect Openrouter MCP with Cursor

How to integrate Openrouter MCP with Cursor Cursor is one of the leading AI-powered code editors. It is built to help developers write, understand, and refactor code faster with AI assistance built directly into the editor. And in this guide, I will explain the easiest and most secure way to connect your Openrouter account to Cursor via Composio Connect, so it can generate Python code from this prompt, summarize this article using Claude-3, list all available Llama-3 model endpoints, and more without ever putting your account credentials at risk.

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How to integrate Openrouter MCP with Cursor

Cursor is one of the leading AI-powered code editors. It is built to help developers write, understand, and refactor code faster with AI assistance built directly into the editor.

And in this guide, I will explain the easiest and most secure way to connect your Openrouter account to Cursor via Composio Connect, so it can generate Python code from this prompt, summarize this article using Claude-3, list all available Llama-3 model endpoints, and more without ever putting your account credentials at risk.

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Why Composio?

  • 1,000+ SaaS toolkits out of the box. Skip the work of building and maintaining integrations, Composio gives you instant access to a vast catalog of pre-built connectors.
  • One MCP server for every app. Connect any of your applications on demand through a single endpoint, rather than juggling a separate server for each app.
  • Smart, context-aware tool loading. Unlike traditional MCP servers that dump every available tool into the LLM context window, Composio searches for and loads only the tools relevant to the task at hand. A remote CLI workbench lets LLMs compose these tools into workflows for complex automation.

Connect Openrouter to Cursor

Two ways to install — pick whichever you prefer.

1. Install with one click

Click the button below to add Composio to Cursor.

Install in Cursor

2. Or add manually

Add to your Cursor mcp.json

Open .cursor/mcp.json in your project root (or ~/.cursor/mcp.json for global config) and add the following configuration:

bash
{
  "servers": {
    "composio": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

3. Authorize

Restart Cursor, then click "Connect" next to Composio in MCP Tools settings.

Cursor MCP Tools settings with Connect button next to Composio

A browser window will open to authorize.

Composio authorization browser window

Connect your Openrouter account

Back in Cursor, ask the agent to connect to Openrouter or give it any Openrouter-related task.

For example, ask it to:

  • "Generate Python code from this prompt"
  • "Summarize this article using Claude-3"
  • "List all available Llama-3 model endpoints"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access to Openrouter.

That is it. Composio tools are now available in Cursor, and your Openrouter account is ready to use.

Conclusion

You have successfully connected Openrouter to Cursor using Composio Connect. Your agent can now use Openrouter securely without exposing credentials in prompts or local scripts.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Openrouter action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Create Chat Completion

Tool to generate a chat-style completion.

Create Coinbase Charge

Tool to create a Coinbase charge for crypto payment to add credits to your OpenRouter account.

Create Message (Anthropic Format)

Tool to create a message using Anthropic Messages API format via OpenRouter.

Get Credits

Tool to get the current API credit balance for the authenticated user.

Get Current Key

Tool to get information about the currently authenticated API key.

Get Generation

Tool to retrieve a generation result by its unique ID.

Get Models Count

Tool to get the total count of available models on OpenRouter.

List Available Models

Tool to list available models via OpenRouter API.

List Embedding Models

Tool to list all available embeddings models via OpenRouter API.

OpenRouter List Model Endpoints

Tool to list endpoints for a specific model.

OpenRouter List Providers

Tool to list all AI model providers available through the OpenRouter API.

List User Models

Tool to list models filtered by user provider preferences, privacy settings, and guardrails.

OpenRouter List ZDR Endpoints

Tool to preview the impact of Zero Data Retention (ZDR) on the available endpoints.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Openrouter MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Openrouter tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Openrouter and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Cursor fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Openrouter tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Openrouter scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Openrouter data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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