2026-02-06 Fri

MCP Troubleshooting
- I tried to get CursorAI MCP for Atlassian/MCP to work in both CursorAI/CLI and regular desktop, and at first, I just could not today.
  - In the desktop version, the authenticate button didn't do anything (it would not open up a browser like it normally did to complete the OAuth flow).
  - In the CLI version, authenticate worked, but the tools timed out.
- Atlassian MCP previously worked for me in the desktop version (but not the CLI version, where there was some bug that prevented authentication if I was authenticated in desktop).
- Eventually, I had the hypothesis that using the same MCP server in both the desktop and CLI versions of cursor was causing a bug, so I tried quitting cursor desktop and only using the MCP from Cursor CLI, and then it worked!

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