Image support in Cursor chat

[danra]

Feature request for product/service

Chat

Describe the request

My example use case is with a Jira MCP server.
I could prompt to describe the issue to me. In many cases, attachments like images can be extremely helpful. MCPs are also able to download these attachments into a temporary folder.
However, I have never been able to actually have the images shown in the chat - which I assume would be a fairly simple thing to implement.

[Colin]

This sounds like a great use case for MCP Apps!

Cursor 2.6: MCP Apps

New in Cursor! · Full changelog · Main announcement We’re excited to introduce support MCP Apps, interactive UI elements that render directly inside Cursor! How it works: MCP Apps let MCP servers return interactive HTML interfaces, like dashboards, charts, forms, media viewers, that render right in your agent chat. Instead of getting a text summary or switching to an external tool, you get a live, interactive UI embedded in the conversation. Apps run in a sandboxed iframe for security…

Not sure what Atlassian has planned for this, but it’s how we expect rich content will brought into Cursor going forwards!