How to call MCP servers from Cursor CLI

I want to create a batch of JIRA tickets as part of a workflow. I want to leverate the JIRA mcp for that and use Cursor CLI with commands like

cursor-agent –print –output-format json ‘mcp_jira create_jira_issue …

However, my commands fail and I think it has something to do with how the MCP server works in cursor CLI. I can see the MCP server as being approved if I look into ~/.cursor/projects/…/mcp-approvals.json. Could it be because I need to specify more arguments for autorunning commands or something similar? The documentation is pretty slim on this one.

Thank you in advance.