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Connect Salesforce API MCP Server in Cursor IDE
Dec 4, 2025
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https://www.infallibletechie.com/2025/12/connect-salesforce-api-mcp-server-in-cursor-ide.html
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Hello everyone. In this video we are
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going to see how to make use of
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Salesforce API MCP server in cursor IDE.
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If you are using cursor IDE for
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Salesforce development and then if you
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want to boost your development then you
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have to must try this Salesforce API MCP
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server.
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Whenever we do Salesforce development
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and if we get stuck on any uh use cases
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then we can make use of uh the chat
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option that is available in the cursor
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ID and then we can ask the questions
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if it is related to Salesforce.
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Since we are going to configure the
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Salesforce APA MCP server in cursor ID
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then it will make use of the tools that
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Salesforce APA MCP server is providing
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to answer those questions. So it will
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definitely help in uh increasing uh your
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uh um efficiency in Salesforce code
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development. It will also try to provide
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optimized code solution. uh it uh if you
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have uh any questions like uh what is
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account object, what is contact object,
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can can it get any information about uh
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um uh an object whether I can create
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records in that object like that if you
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wanted to ask any questions then you can
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directly make use of the Salesforce API
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MCP server in your cursor IDE
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the prerequisites for uh this is we have
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to make sure we have installed cursor
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cursor ID. So, make sure the cursor ID
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is installed in your laptop or personal
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uh computer. Next, you should have a
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Salesforce org so that we can enable
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MCP service. So, in your Salesforce or
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if you go to Salesforce setup, in the
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Salesforce setup under user interface,
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we have user interface uh option. When
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you enable it, when you click it, you
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should see enable MCP service beta.
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Note, uh, make a note that it is a beta
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service as of now. So, en click enable
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MCP service beta. Save it. Once it is,
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uh, saved
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then you can proceed further on these
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steps. Uh, make sure node.js is
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installed. Uh, we are installing this
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node.js JS in your laptop or PC so that
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the npx command can be executed.
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So we already saw the step one. We have
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to enable uh uh MCP uh service in
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Salesforce setup. Once this is done, you
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have to create an external client app.
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For that we have to make sure we are
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following all these steps.
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Once it is uh created, we will be able
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to get the consumer key and the secret.
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Make a note of the consumer key.
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Next, we have to go to the cursor ID and
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then we have to click cursor settings.
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Once it is uh opened, you will be able
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to see tools and MCP. Here you have to
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make use of the new MCP server button
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and uh in order to connect to Salesforce
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MCP uh server I am making use of S
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object all uh so this MCP server
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provides
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uh all object definition uh and if you
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wanted to describe an object then we
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will be able to get all those uh tools
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from this. So MCP is a server. It's a
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provider of resources. So it will
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provide you the tools that will help uh
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in your productivity.
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Uh now we in in in uh MCP server we will
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have the tools uh using which we can um
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uh help in answering the questions
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whatever we have. So for example here
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here uh for for this particular uh MCP
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server I am having 12 tools that are
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enabled. The 12 uh tools are describe
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global, describe s object, list uh
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list recent records, get related uh uh
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records like that. I was able to I'm
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able to see multiple tools that
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Salesforce is providing as part of this
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MCP server.
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So this is the JSON. So here uh you have
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to mention the consumer key. Here you
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need not mention the consumer secret.
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You can directly make use of the
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consumer uh uh key from your external
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client app which you which we just
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created.
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So here you have to just replace uh this
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consumer key with your external client
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app consumer key. Once that is done,
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click save.
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um you if you wanted to test whether it
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is working fine, you can ask some
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prompts. So for example, here I'm going
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to ask
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is contact
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a standard object
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in Salesforce.
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So it's a straightforward question. uh
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it should definitely pick this
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particular Salesforce MCP server and
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then uh
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okay it took describe object tool from
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the MCP server which is the right tool
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it is not uh custom object because
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customer is false label is contact cre
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prefix is 003 and these are all the
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fields that are available in my contact
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uh uh object it's it says that it's a
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core standard object in every Salesforce
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arg and is part of account contact
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relationship model.
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When I was setting up this initially, I
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had several issues. What I would
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recommend is try to run this in your
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terminal. I'm a Mac OS user. So I ran
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this so that it will clear the um
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authentication that happened when I
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initially tried to connect to Salesforce
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from my cursor ID. Uh so with this uh
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command when I try to execute it, it
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will remove that cache. It will again
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ask me to uh login into my Salesforce
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arc so that it will um create the
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connectivity between the MCP server in
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cursor ID and Salesforce or um one one
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more thing what I I was doing uh was I
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was keep on disabling it and enabling it
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so that at one point after three or four
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times it was able to get connected. Uh
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so even if you run into the same issue
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like error no code verifier saved for
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session or invalid grant error try to
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follow the troubleshooting steps
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whatever I have shared so that you will
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be able to resolve it.
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Please check the video description. In
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the video description I have shared my
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blog post. from the blog post you should
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be able to get all the steps we
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discussed in this video. Also I have
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shared the JSON uh um code
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to connect to Salesforce MCP server from
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your cursor ID as a reference.
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I hope it was helpful.
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Thank you for watching.
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