Claude Recall in Cursor

Cursor is MCP-native as of late 2024. Add Claude Recall as a server and Cursor Composer can search, recall, and inject any past Claude Code session as context. The recall server speaks stdio only, runs on your machine, and authenticates nothing because there is nothing remote to authenticate against.

Setup

Two terminal commands plus one Cursor setting.

# 1. Install the CLI
npm install -g @clauderecallhq/cli

# 2. Open Cursor → Settings → Features → MCP → Add new MCP server
#    Name: recall
#    Command: claude-recall-mcp

Or edit the MCP config file directly:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "recall": {
      "command": "claude-recall-mcp"
    }
  }
}

What Cursor can do with it

• Ask Cursor Composer to search across every past Claude Code session.
• Pull a specific session into the current Cursor conversation as context.
• Find sessions semantically similar to what you are working on right now.
• Browse tags, apply tags, set aliases, and add notes from the agent panel.

Why this works without any account

MCP runs over stdio between two processes on the same machine. Cursor spawns the recall MCP server as a child process; they speak via stdin/stdout. There is no network hop, no credential exchange, and no third-party server in between. The recall server only reads the local SQLite index at ~/.recall/ that Claude Recall maintains by watching ~/.claude/projects/.

FAQ

Last updated April 2026