This connects Cursor to the Halyard MCP server so the agent can search knowledge, ask teammates, and capture answers. The plugin is the recommended path — it ships the MCP server plus the skills and an always-on rule that teach the agent when to search, ask, and log. Manual MCP config gives you the tools only.
Option 1: Install the Halyard plugin (recommended)
Section titled “Option 1: Install the Halyard plugin (recommended)”Install Halyard from the Cursor Marketplace — search for “Halyard”.
The plugin installs:
- The
org-kbMCP server (mcp.usehalyard.ai) — search, ask-expert, and knowledge-capture tools - Six skills —
gather-context,ask-for-help,log-work,review-work,triage-knowledge,mark-terms - A
knowledge-firstrule that orients every session toward the knowledge base: search before substantive work, capture outcomes after
You can also install straight from the repository before (or without) the marketplace listing:
git clone https://github.com/halyard-labs/claude-plugin-marketplaceln -s "$(pwd)/claude-plugin-marketplace/plugins/halyard" ~/.cursor/plugins/local/halyardOption 2: Manual MCP config
Section titled “Option 2: Manual MCP config”Add the Halyard server to your project’s .cursor/mcp.json:
{ "mcpServers": { "halyard": { "url": "https://mcp.usehalyard.ai" } }}Authorize
Section titled “Authorize”Reload Cursor after installing the plugin or editing the config. On its first call to a Halyard tool, Cursor opens a browser to authorize against your Halyard account. Approve it once; the bearer token is then attached to every request.
Verify
Section titled “Verify”Ask the agent to identify you and run a search:
Use Halyard to tell me who I am, then search the knowledge base for our most recent decision.Expect a whoami call returning your user and organization, followed by a search_knowledge call. If the tools do not appear, see Troubleshooting.