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Moon Banking MCP for Cursor

Connect Cursor to the Moon Banking MCP server so the AI can query banks, countries, votes, and stories with one-click OAuth.

Cursor's agent is excellent at writing code but has no built-in knowledge of specific banks, their hostnames, fee structures, or how real customers rate them. Wiring in the Moon Banking MCP closes that gap: Cursor gains live access to every bank Moon Banking tracks — name, country, primary hostname, rank, community-rated scores across 14 categories (customer service, fees & pricing, digital experience, crypto friendliness, security & trust, lending, and more) — plus the user-submitted stories backing those scores.

Useful when you're scaffolding a fintech project, validating bank hostnames you see in code, generating realistic test fixtures, or just prompting "find me a crypto-friendly business bank in Singapore and stub out a client for its public API" mid-session. Answers are grounded in fresh Moon Banking data — not whatever your model memorized last year.

Cursor speaks remote MCP natively over Streamable HTTP. The fastest setup is to point Cursor at the hosted endpoint — Cursor handles the OAuth flow in a browser tab automatically.

Option A — Click to install

Add to Cursor

Option B — Edit mcp.json directly

Open Cursor and go to Settings → Tools & MCP → New MCP Server, or edit your global config at ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "moonbanking": {
      "url": "https://mcp.moonbanking.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

For project-scoped install instead, drop the same JSON at .cursor/mcp.json inside your repository.

The first time Cursor connects, it will open a browser window asking you to sign in to Moon Banking. After that, the connection persists across restarts.

Alternative: self-hosted (API key)

If you would rather run the MCP server locally as a stdio process (eg. you are on a machine without a browser, or you want to use a service API key), Cursor can spawn the published npm package.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "moonbanking-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@moonbanking/mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "MOON_BANKING_API_KEY": "Bearer mb_sk_..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Generate an API key at moonbanking.com/settings/api/manage-api-keys.

Verify the connection

Open the Cursor chat panel and look for the MCP indicator beside the model picker — it should show moonbanking with a green dot and the tool count. You can also ask the agent something like:

What are the top three banks in Germany right now?

If it responds using the bank_get and country_get tools, the connection is working.

Troubleshooting

  • Tools list is empty. Cursor may have cached an unauthenticated session. Remove the entry from mcp.json, restart Cursor, and re-add it. If the issue persists, run npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector against https://mcp.moonbanking.com/mcp to confirm the server is reachable from your network.
  • OAuth window closes immediately. Make sure your default browser is signed in to Moon Banking, or sign in first at moonbanking.com and retry.
  • 403 errors after sign-in. Your Moon Banking account must be on a Pro plan to use the MCP API. Upgrade to Pro.

Available tools

The Moon Banking MCP server exposes the following tools (identical across every client):

  • bank_getByHostname
  • bank_get
  • bank_getById
  • bank_semanticSearch
  • bankVote_get
  • country_get
  • country_getByCountryCode
  • story_get
  • story_getById
  • world_getOverview
  • search_get

Full descriptions live on the main MCP page.

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