Guide: Connecting Notion to Cursor and Claude Desktop
The Notion MCP server is used to: Search, read, and write pages and databases in your Notion workspace. Perfect for working with your personal knowledge base. 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:
Knowledge Sync
Gather key takeaways on topic X from the web and save them as a new page in the root of my Notion workspace.
Automatic Task Logging
Whenever I mention a task completion in chat, find the corresponding row in my Notion tasks database and update its status to 'Done'.
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