# Connecting Cursor > From FilmScorecard Help: https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-cursor Connect Cursor, the code editor, to your FilmScorecard account through its MCP settings, then ask its chat about your festivals in plain words. Once it is connected, Cursor can look through what your own screens show you (submissions, judges, scorecards, awards, judge pay and settings) and answer questions about it. It acts as you, so it reaches exactly what you reach and nothing more, and **it can change only three things**: a film's status, your own flag, and Priority. Everything a connected app can do is in [Connecting an AI app](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-an-ai-app.md#what-a-connected-app-can-do). ## Before you start - **Your organization needs AI access.** FilmScorecard switches it on one organization at a time. To check, open **Your profile** in the menu behind your name and choose the **Connections** tab: if Cursor's row offers **How to connect**, you have it. If the **AI apps** card says "AI access isn't on for *your organization* yet", press **Request AI access**: it opens our contact form with the request already written. See [Connections](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-account-settings.md#connections). - **Cursor installed.** - **The address.** Every app needs the same one. It is already inside the file snippet below, and Cursor's steps on the Connections tab show the whole snippet with a **Copy** button beside it: ``` https://www.filmscorecard.com/api/mcp ``` **There is no key, token or password to copy anywhere.** Cursor never sees your sign-in code: FilmScorecard gives it a pass of its own when you allow it, and you can take that back at any time. ## Connecting Cursor 1. **Open Tools & MCP.** Open **Cursor Settings**, then **Tools & MCP**, and add a new MCP server. Cursor opens its `mcp.json` file. Older versions of Cursor call the settings page **MCP**. 2. **Add FilmScorecard and save.** Put this in the file: ``` { "mcpServers": { "filmscorecard": { "url": "https://www.filmscorecard.com/api/mcp" } } } ``` **If the file already lists other servers**, keep them, and add only the `"filmscorecard": { … }` entry inside `mcpServers`, with a comma between it and the one before. Save the file. 3. **Log in.** Back in **Tools & MCP**, **filmscorecard** is listed as needing you to log in. Choose to log in. Your browser opens on FilmScorecard. 4. **Sign in, if FilmScorecard asks.** If you are not signed in to FilmScorecard in that browser, you get the log-in screen first. Sign in with your emailed code as usual (see [Logging in](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/logging-in.md)), and you come straight back. 5. **Check the request.** The connection page asks whether to let the app in. It shows the app's name, with "wants to connect to your account." under it; **Will act as**, which is the address you sign in with; and **It can**, which reads "read and update festival data you already have access to". **Make sure it names Cursor, the app you just added.** If you did not just start connecting an app, press **Deny**, and nothing is connected. 6. **Press Allow.** Your browser goes back to Cursor, and **filmscorecard** is connected in **Tools & MCP**. **To check it worked**, open the **Connections** tab on your account screen: Cursor reads **Connected**, with the date you allowed it. ## Using it Ask about your festivals in Cursor's chat the way you would ask a colleague. For example: - "Which festivals and seasons can you see in FilmScorecard?" - "Give me an overview of this season's submissions and judging." - "List the films in this season that are still In Consideration." - "Mark these three films as Priority." **Cursor starts by finding your festivals**, because every other question names an organization, a festival or a season. If you belong to more than one, say which one you mean. **It changes only three things, and a status move is always previewed first.** Before any film moves between In Consideration, Selected and Not Selected, FilmScorecard shows Cursor exactly which films would move, and nothing changes until Cursor asks again to confirm. Each tool that changes something is marked as doing so, and Cursor can use that mark to ask you first. See [Moving films between statuses](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-an-ai-app.md#moving-films-between-statuses). **A change Cursor makes is the same change you would make on the Submissions screen**, made as you. Your colleagues see it on their own screens when their list next refreshes. **For more to ask, and habits that get better answers**, see [Using an AI app](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/using-an-ai-app.md). ## If something goes wrong | What you see | What to do | | --- | --- | | **filmscorecard** does not appear in **Tools & MCP** after you save | The file has a mistake in it, most often a missing comma between two servers or a missing brace. Compare it with the snippet above, and save again. | | **filmscorecard** still needs you to log in | The browser half was not finished. Choose to log in again. | | "AI access isn't enabled for your organization.", with **Deny** and no **Allow** | None of your organizations has AI access, or you are signed in on an account that belongs to no organization, such as a judge's. Press **Deny** so Cursor stops waiting, then press **Request AI access** on your Connections tab. | | "This connection request has expired or was already answered. Start again from your AI app." | A request does not last long and can be answered once. Choose to log in from **Tools & MCP** again. | | "This connection request is incomplete. Start again from your AI app." | The page was opened from a bookmark or typed by hand. Choose to log in from **Tools & MCP** again. | | "That didn't go through. Try again." | Your answer did not reach FilmScorecard. Press **Allow** again. If it keeps happening, log in from **Tools & MCP** again. | | Cursor says it was told "Too many calls in the last minute. Wait a moment and try again." | Each person can make 120 calls a minute across every app they have connected. Wait a moment. See [120 calls a minute](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-an-ai-app.md#120-calls-a-minute). | | Cursor says it was told "AI access isn't enabled for this organization." | AI access for that organization has been switched off since you connected. See [When AI access is switched off](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-an-ai-app.md#when-ai-access-is-switched-off). | | Cursor says it was told "That needs … and your role doesn't include it." | Your role does not reach that screen, so Cursor cannot either. See [When the app is refused](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-an-ai-app.md#when-the-app-is-refused). | ## Disconnecting Cursor 1. Open **Your profile** in the menu behind your name, and choose the **Connections** tab. 2. On **Cursor**'s row, press the amber **Disconnect** beside the connection. 3. Press the amber **Disconnect** in the dialog. **Cursor is refused from its next request.** To use it again, choose to log in from **Tools & MCP**, and FilmScorecard asks you again. **Taking the entry out of `mcp.json` removes it from Cursor, but FilmScorecard keeps listing the connection** until you disconnect it on the Connections tab. To tidy up completely, do both. ## Related guides - [Using an AI app](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/using-an-ai-app.md): what to ask it, and how to get good answers. - [Connecting an AI app](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-an-ai-app.md): everything a connected app can do, the 34 tools, what it is never given, and every sentence it is told when it is refused. - [Your account settings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-account-settings.md#connections): the Connections tab. - [Connecting Claude](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-claude.md), [Connecting ChatGPT](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-chatgpt.md), [Connecting Claude Code](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-claude-code.md) and [Connecting another AI app](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-another-ai-app.md).