Connect Knola to Cursor.

Connect Knola to Cursor and build your course right from your editor. Lessons, quizzes, presentations, PDFs and more, made in your Knola school while you work.

Set it up Get Knola

What you can do in Cursor

Cursor gets Knola’s tools. Here are 20 of the most used.

Connect Knola and Cursor can use more than 100 tools to build, sell and track your course. Pick a job, copy a prompt, and paste it into Cursor.

100+tools in all. These are the 20 creators use most.

Turn a plan into a real course, then keep shaping it: modules, lessons and quizzes.

Start a course
Creates the course in your school, with its title and description.
create_course
Shape the outline
Adds, moves, renames and reorders modules and lessons in one go.
restructure_curriculum
Write a lesson
Writes or rewrites the full text of any lesson.
update_lesson
Add a quiz
Writes a quiz from what the lesson teaches.
generate_lesson_quiz

Copy a prompt into Cursor

I have attached [my notes, transcripts or ebook]. Use them to build a course in Knola called [course name], for [who it is for]. First, show me a plan: the modules, the lessons in each, and one line on what each lesson teaches. Keep my words, stories and examples where you can, and fill any gaps with clear teaching. When I say go, build it in Knola, with the full text of every lesson and a short quiz at the end of each module.

Change the [marked] words to your own.

Cursor starts with the course-building tools, so some of these load only when a job needs them. These are 20 of more than 100. The rest cover images, funnels, orders and more, and Cursor picks the right one for each job. All the details

Set it up

Connect Cursor to Knola.

What you need

Cursor
A Knola account (any plan)
About 1 minute

1
Add Knola
Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{ "mcpServers": { "knola": { "url": "https://www.knola.ai/api/mcp?tools=course_building" } } }
2
Sign in
Cursor opens your browser to Knola the first time it connects.
3
Sign in to Knola and click Allow
Knola opens and asks to let your AI work in your school. Choose the school and what your AI may do. "Draft for me" is the safe start: nothing your students or buyers see changes until you press publish. Choose "Build with me" when you want slides, narrated videos and downloads made with your AI credits. Then click Allow and connect.

Already in Knola? Open Settings ▸ Connected apps in your school. It shows these steps too, every AI you have connected, what each one did, and what it may do.

FAQ

A few things you might be wondering.

Why does Cursor get a different address?

Cursor stops loading actions at about 40. This address gives it the course-building set, so nothing it needs is cut off. You can choose a different area of Knola in Settings ▸ Connected apps.

Does it cost extra?

No. Connecting your AI comes with every Knola plan. Some requests, such as slides, images and narrated videos, use your AI credits, the same as when you make them in Knola. Your AI can use credits only if you choose "Build with me" or "Run it", and you can set a monthly credit limit for each AI you connect. If you do not have enough credits, nothing is made and nothing is charged, and your AI tells you.

Can my AI publish or email my students without me?

Not unless you let it. You choose what each AI may do when you connect it. With "Draft for me", it builds drafts and nothing your students or buyers see changes until you publish. Sending email and deleting are separate permissions, and it asks you first.

How do I disconnect it?

Open Settings ▸ Connected apps in Knola and remove it. It loses access at once. You can also change what it may do there at any time.

Is this a Cursor MCP connector?

Yes. Cursor connects to Knola through the Knola MCP server, using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard AI apps use to connect to other software. You only need the address and a Knola sign-in.

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