Cursor MCP Proxy Setup Guide: Add Budget Controls and Audit Trails to Your Tools

Cursor makes MCP tools easy to connect. It does not give you budget enforcement, spend attribution, or strong policy control out of the box. Here's how to add a proxy layer that does. Why proxy Cursor MCP traffic at all? Cursor's MCP support is great for one thing: getting tools into the editor fast. You point Cursor at a server, the model sees new capabilities, and suddenly it can search codebases, call internal APIs, or trigger automations. That convenience becomes a governance pr...