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give cursor its own mcp file - #17

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When installing the Cursor plugin it prompts to enter a ENV variable for ${HOME}. After talking with the Cursor devs they suggest to use ${env:HOME} instead, however I'm going to try ${userHome} for x-os compat.


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Plugin packaging and MCP path configuration only; no runtime application logic changes.

Overview
Bumps paper-desktop to 0.2.1 and gives each host its own MCP manifest instead of a shared mcp.json.

The Claude plugin now loads ./mcp.claude.json. The Cursor plugin declares ./mcp.cursor.json, where the Paper MCP server command is set to ${userHome}/.paper/bin/paper (replacing bare paper) so install no longer depends on users manually supplying a HOME env var.

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Cursor resolves ${env:HOME}, not Claude/MCPB ${HOME}. Keep mcp.json for
Cursor, move the Claude path into .mcp.json, and pin both plugin manifests
so each host loads the right file.

Co-authored-by: mike douges <itsdouges@users.noreply.github.com>
@itsdouges itsdouges changed the title Give Cursor its own Paper MCP config with ${env:HOME} give cursor its own mcp file Aug 26, 2026
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itsdouges marked this pull request as ready for review August 26, 2026 02:52

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Cursor Bugbot has reviewed your changes using high effort and found 1 potential issue.

Fix All in Cursor

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itsdouges merged commit c3c2c3e into main Aug 26, 2026
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