Cursor is the AI-first code editor a lot of builders now live in. It speaks the Model Context Protocol, so you can plug in ContextBolt Radar and keep an eye on your competitors from the same window where you ship.
Like Claude Code, Cursor has file access, so your watch list and every judged change mirror to a ./radar/ folder in your workspace as markdown. Your competitive history lives next to your code, version-controlled and searchable, instead of in a dashboard you forget to open.
Competitor intel without leaving the editor
When you are heads-down building, the last thing you want is another tab to babysit. With Radar in Cursor you ask “what did my competitors do this week?” and the judged answer comes back in the chat pane. No dashboard, no alert feed, no context switch.
Because these are MCP tools, Cursor chains them. “Check rival.io, and if they shipped anything that overlaps our roadmap, summarize it and draft a positioning note” is one prompt that calls several tools and writes the result to disk.
Keeping the config clean
Add the server to your global ~/.cursor/mcp.json so it follows you across projects, or to a project-level .cursor/mcp.json if you only want it in one workspace:
{
"mcpServers": {
"contextbolt-radar": {
"url": "https://radar.contextbolt.app/mcp/YOUR_TOKEN"
}
}
}Your URL holds a personal token, so prefer the global config over a committed project file, or pull the URL from an environment variable. Once it shows a green dot in Settings, MCP, name your competitors and the watching starts tonight.
How to connect ContextBolt Radar to Cursor
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Subscribe and get your MCP URL
Subscribe to ContextBolt Radar ($39/month, up to 5 competitors). Your private MCP URL arrives by email and looks like https://radar.contextbolt.app/mcp/YOUR_TOKEN. Keep it private, like a password.
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Add it to your mcp.json
Open Cursor Settings, then MCP, then Add new MCP server, or edit ~/.cursor/mcp.json directly. Under mcpServers add: "contextbolt-radar": { "url": "https://radar.contextbolt.app/mcp/YOUR_TOKEN" }. Save the file.
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Enable and check it
Back in Settings, MCP, make sure contextbolt-radar shows a green dot and its tools are toggled on. Then open the chat pane and ask 'what Radar tools do you have?'. If it lists competitor, teardown, and digest tools, you are live.
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Name your competitors
Say 'watch acme.com, rival.io and matter.com' with a line about what you sell. Radar runs an instant baseline and starts checking every night, briefing you each Monday once something moves.
Example prompts for ContextBolt Radar + Cursor
Once connected, try asking Cursor:
Adds each to your watch list (free) and stores your context, so every change is judged for your business rather than generically.
Reads all five surfaces plus search and returns an analyst read on day one, also setting the baseline for future nightly diffs. Costs 5 credits.
Returns the judged changes with the cosmetic noise removed, so you read moves that matter instead of raw diffs.
Cursor pulls the receipts, then drafts a comparison page and a post in your voice, written into your workspace for review before anything ships.
What you can do with ContextBolt Radar in Cursor
Watch up to 5 competitors across pricing, homepage, changelog, sitemap, and search
Get every change judged for significance, so cosmetic noise never reaches you
Ask what changed this week in plain English while you build
Get an instant teardown of any competitor on day one
See a rival's trajectory, like a second price rise since January
Have the counter-move drafted in your voice and saved to your workspace
Read a Monday briefing of real moves, each with a counter-move and receipts
Save your radar to ./radar/ in your workspace as markdown you can grep and commit