Cursor + Render
Deploy and manage your Render apps from Cursor.
Cursor can combine repository context with live Render service, deploy, log, metric, and database data.
Quick start
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Install Cursor from cursor.com and open your project.
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Install the Render plugin from Cursor chat:
The plugin includes Render skills, rules, commands, an assistant, and MCP configuration.
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Connect with OAuth. Open Cursor's MCP settings, select Connect for Render, and approve the browser prompt. No Render API key is required.
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Verify the connection. Ask Cursor to run
list_workspaces, choose a workspace if needed, then try "Deploy this project to Render and show me the Blueprint first."
MCP and authentication
/add-plugin render~/.cursor/mcp.jsonThe plugin configures https://mcp.render.com/mcp with OAuth. For manual or non-interactive setup, Cursor can instead read a bearer token from ~/.cursor/mcp.json or a project-level .cursor/mcp.json.
See the MCP server docs for manual configuration and the Render plugin for its bundled capabilities.
Example prompts
Start with one of these prompts, then refine the plan with your agent.
Deploy this project to Render and explain the Blueprint before applying it.
Check the latest failed deploy, fix the cause, and verify the next deploy.
Create a Render Postgres database and connect it to this service with DATABASE_URL.
Summarize the health, recent deploys, and error logs for my Render services.
Common workflows
Deploy from the editor
- Ask Cursor to inspect the repository and propose a
render.yamlBlueprint. - Review the services, databases, and environment variables.
- Apply the plan, then check the first deploy.
Debug a failed deploy
- Ask Cursor to fetch the latest failed deploy logs.
- Let it identify and fix the code, configuration, or environment issue.
- Verify the next deploy reaches a healthy state.
Update environment variables
- Ask Cursor to inspect the service's current environment variables.
- Review the proposed additions or changes without exposing secret values.
- Apply the update and confirm the service redeploys successfully.
Related agents
- Claude Code + RenderSet up Claude Code with Render MCP and Render skills for terminal-first deploys, debugging, and infrastructure changes.
- Claude Desktop + RenderConnect Claude Desktop to the Render MCP server to create services, query databases, and inspect logs and metrics from chat.
- Codex CLI + RenderConnect Codex CLI to Render so it can inspect services, read deploy logs, draft Blueprints, and manage deploy workflows from your terminal.
- Codex Desktop + RenderConnect Codex Desktop to Render with the Render plugin, skills, and OAuth-enabled MCP tools.
- OpenCode + RenderConfigure OpenCode with the Render plugin, MCP, and skills for an open-source terminal workflow that can debug, create services, and deploy.
- Pi + RenderInstall the Render Pi package to add Render skills and hosted MCP access to Pi, so it can inspect services, read logs, manage env vars, and run deploys from your terminal.