See: Prompts - Model Context Protocol
It would be great if Prompts from MCP servers could be exposed by Cursor.
I find that there is quite a lot of repetition sometimes in how I use certain tools and having a library of pre-canned prompts available from a MCP server would be really helpful.
I do this outside of Cursor already. I have a set of prompts that do things like:
- Create new React UI pages from a Figma design (using a Figma tool, but that’s not essential for this feature).
- Create a new data-processing flow connecting data from one Kafka topic and writing it to a new database table.
In essence, where we have developed a pattern for solving a certain kind of problem and we are re-applying that pattern to a new problem, there could be a Prompt that accompanies that which facilitates its application in Cursor.
Prompts can exist separately from tools. E.g. I could put the ‘build a UI from a Figma design’ prompt into a Figma MCP server, but I could also have a separate MCP server that is just a library of best-practice Prompts for solving certain problems.
I’d see this like a slash-command in slack, where you would just do something like:
- /new-ui {figma design link} {some clarifying free-text}
- /new-dataflow {source-kafka-topic} {database-table-name} {some clarifying free-text}
Thanks for reading!
Edited to fix slash-command examples