SpritesAdd Sprites to Cursor
Available on Any Cursor plan that allows MCP servers, on desktop and on Cursor web agents. You need a Sprites account with Shopify already connected — the connector acts on that connection, so Cursor never handles a Shopify credential.
Write the config
Put the entry in ~/.cursor/mcp.json to have Sprites available in every project, or in .cursor/mcp.json inside one repo to scope it there.
~/.cursor/mcp.json{ "mcpServers": { "sprites": { "url": "https://mcp.sprites.ai/mcp" } } }Or add it from the UI
Cursor lists MCP servers under Customize in the sidebar; adding one there writes the same file.
CursorCustomizeMCPNew MCP serverSign in
Cursor finds the Sprites authorization server from the endpoint's protected-resource metadata, registers itself, and opens a browser for the consent screen. Desktop completes on http://localhost:8787/callback and web agents on cursor.com; both are pre-registered, so there is nothing to allowlist.
Spriteswants access on behalf of Cursor- Read your connected ad accounts and site data
- Draft campaigns, creatives and pages for your approval
- Apply only the changes you approve
AllowCancelKeep it in the repo, not in your dotfiles
A project-scoped .cursor/mcp.json is worth committing: every teammate who opens the repo gets the same connector and signs in as themselves. The file holds a URL and nothing else — the token is per person and never touches the config.
Official Shopify MCP vs Sprites MCP
Shopify runs its own MCP server at claude.ai/directory/connectors/shopify. Here is what each one covers, so you can pick the one that fits in Cursor — or connect both.
Shopify publishes its own connector in Claude’s directory, approved from your Shopify admin. It creates and updates products, collections and inventory, creates percentage-off discount codes, and reads orders, customers and analytics. It cannot edit a live theme, change store settings, issue refunds or cancel orders, and batch status changes stop at 50 items. Separately, every store exposes a public Storefront MCP endpoint for shoppers’ agents.
| Shopify officialclaude.ai/directory/connectors/shopify | Sprites MCPapproval-gated | |
|---|---|---|
| Products and inventory | Creates and updates products, prices, SKUs and stock levels | Reads them; writes product descriptions and SEO fields, never prices or stock |
| Orders and customers | Read only | Not read; Sprites works on the catalogue and content |
| Catalogue-wide SEO | One product at a time; batches stop at 50 | SEO titles and descriptions across every product in one approved run |
| Content and SEO | Product titles and descriptions | Pages, blog posts, product copy and metadata, written for search |
| Before a change applies | Applied when the tool is called, within the access you approved | Drafts and diffs you approve; publishing is a separate click |
If you want to update products, stock and discount codes from a chat, Shopify’s own connector does exactly that. Use Sprites when the job is search and content: SEO fields across the whole catalogue, collection pages and blog posts written to rank, and product copy in the store’s voice — with nothing touching prices or inventory, and every change approved first.
Run the first prompt
Ask Cursor this. It routes to a Sprites door, which reads your Shopify account and answers — no account to name, no confirmation to give first.
- With Sprites, which of our products are missing SEO titles or meta descriptions?
- Ask Sprites to list every product in the summer collection with price and inventory.
- Use Sprites to create a collection page for "gifts under $50" and draft it in Shopify.
- Have Sprites rewrite the product descriptions in the summer collection.
- With Sprites, build Meta creative from our three best-selling SKUs.
Open Cursor Settings → MCP and confirm sprites is listed as connected with its tool count.
What Cursor can do with Shopify
The same doors, whichever client you are in. The campaign and the page it points at live in the same window: change the pricing copy, then have Sprites update the ads that quote it, without a second tool.
SEO for every product at once
Missing SEO titles and meta descriptions written across the whole catalogue in one approved run, with any failures listed for a retry.
Read the whole catalogue
Every product, variant and collection, uncapped, and filterable by tag, collection, status or sales channel.
Publish collection pages
Manual or tag-based smart collections with descriptions and SEO fields, proposed for your approval.
Refresh product copy at scale
Descriptions rewritten in the store’s voice, proposed as a set you review before anything lands.
Creative from real products
Ads built from the actual catalogue — price, variant, image — rather than a model's guess at your range.
Store blog without a second tool
Posts drafted into the Shopify blog through the same connector as everything else.
How approvals work here
Cursor renders tool results as text, so a Shopify change comes back written out rather than as a card. The approval waits for you in Sprites — open it there and the same run continues. Nothing is applied until you approve it.
What it reads
- Products, variants, collections, inventory and pricing
- The sales channels each product is published on
- Store pages, blog posts and their SEO metadata
What it can change
- Collection and landing pages, and store blog posts
- Product descriptions, SEO titles, meta descriptions, tags and status
- Never prices or inventory, and nothing without an approval
When it does not work in Cursor
Three things go wrong in this client specifically, and each has a one-line fix.
The Connect button does nothing and no request is made.
A known Cursor issue on some builds. Update Cursor, then remove and re-add the server; if it persists, restart Cursor with the config already in place so the connection is made at startup.
Cursor authenticates but every call comes back unauthorized.
The token was issued for a different address. Delete the server entry, restart Cursor, and re-add it with the exact endpoint above — every grant is bound to that one URL, so a variant of it will not be honoured.
The agent invents ad-platform tools instead of calling Sprites.
Name it: "use Sprites to…". Cursor ranks its own tools first, and a generic phrasing loses to the built-in search.
Shopify and Cursor: questions
Which URL do I paste into Cursor?
https://mcp.sprites.ai/mcp. There is one endpoint and every client uses it — every OAuth grant is bound to exactly that address, so a variant of it will not be honoured.
Can Cursor change my Shopify account without asking?
Cursor renders tool results as text, so a Shopify change comes back written out rather than as a card. The approval waits for you in Sprites — open it there and the same run continues. Nothing is applied until you approve it.
Do I need a Shopify API key or developer token?
No. Shopify is connected once inside Sprites through Shopify Admin, and the connector acts on that connection. Cursor never sees a credential for it.
Why Cursor for Shopify specifically?
The campaign and the page it points at live in the same window: change the pricing copy, then have Sprites update the ads that quote it, without a second tool.
Is there an official Shopify MCP server?
Several. Every store answers at {shop}.myshopify.com/api/mcp with no authentication, for catalogue search, carts and policies. For merchants, Shopify’s own connector for Claude creates and updates products, collections, inventory and percentage discounts, and reads orders, customers and analytics. Sprites is separate: it works on your catalogue’s SEO and content, and never on prices or stock.
Do I need a Shopify Partner account?
No. Connect a custom app you create in your own Shopify admin and paste its access token, or use the standard OAuth connect. Neither needs a Partner account.
Keep going
The same Cursor connector reaches every other channel — nothing else to add.
Shopify, from Cursor
Paste one URL, sign in once, and the next Shopify question you ask Cursor gets answered from the live account.