Guide: Connecting Google Calendar to Cursor and Claude Desktop
The Google Calendar MCP server is used to: Manage Google Calendar. Allows the AI to view your schedule, find free slots, and create events. Instead of manually writing configuration files, use the generator on the right.
AI Skills (Prompt Recipes)
Copy these prompts and send them to Claude/Cursor after connecting the tool to activate the skills:
Smart Scheduling Assistant
Find all meetings in my calendar for tomorrow, identify free time blocks longer than 1 hour, and suggest them for a client call.
Common Troubleshooting Issues:
- Missing commas in
claude_desktop_config.json, which crashes the entire client. - Incorrect slash escaping in Windows paths (use
\\\\instead of\\). - Incorrect arguments syntax in the JSON array.
Fill in the fields below to generate the JSON config, CLI command, or schema for AI agents.
claude_desktop_config.json
Terminal / Console
Tool JSON Schema for OpenAI/CrewAI
LangChain Python Tool