Getting MCP, Cursor, and WSL playing together [Updated 25/04/2025]
For weeks I've been trying to get MCPs working in cursor on my windows laptop, where my code is running in WSL. I've cracked it, thanks to a friendly person on Reddit.
Last year was a time of really not getting much done. Lots of preparation, but not much output. So I've deleted my old blog and started a new one.
Because it's a bit embarrassing to read my old posts.
Not that anyone else really read them anyway, because I didn't spend time promoting the blog.
So let's just start this all over again
For weeks I've been trying to get MCPs working in cursor on my windows laptop, where my code is running in WSL. I've cracked it, thanks to a friendly person on Reddit.
I've recently started expanding my usage of Cursor to let it run commands, tests, etc and fix it's own issues. Here's my experience.
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