Use Orca from Cursor

Register the Orca MCP server in Cursor and drive cloud agents from the editor.

Cursor talks to Orca through the same MCP server the CLI ships.

Setup

Install the CLI and sign in once:

curl -fsSL https://orcapods.ai/install.sh | sh
orca login

Then register the server in .cursor/mcp.json (project) or ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "orca": {
      "command": "orca",
      "args": ["mcp", "serve"]
    }
  }
}

What the agent gets

Nineteen curated tools covering the golden paths (create and run agents, follow runs with wait_for_run, skills, storage, publishing, usage) plus api_request, a raw authenticated escape hatch to every /api/* operation, self-documented by the orca://openapi resource.

Headless login inside Cursor

orca login detects agent contexts (including Cursor) and uses the device flow automatically: it prints a one-time code and a URL to approve on any device, then stores the key itself. For scripted setups, export ORCA_API_KEY instead; details in Headless authentication.