You Installed LMCP. Now What?

LMCP gives Cursor access to 92 tools across Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Teams, OneDrive, Notes, Reminders, Safari, OmniFocus, and more. But the first time you open Cursor after installing, nothing looks different — the tools are there, waiting. You just need to ask.

Here are 10 prompts you can paste directly into Cursor's chat to see LMCP in action. Each one is a real workflow that developers use every day.

Email

1. Check your inbox without switching apps

Read my latest emails

Returns the last 20 emails from your Mac Mail inbox. Works with Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Exchange — any account in Mail.app.

2. Find that API key someone emailed you

Search my emails for “API key” from the last week

Full-text search across all your mailboxes. No need to open Mail.app.

3. Send a quick status update

Email [colleague] saying the deploy is done and the PR is merged

Composes and sends via Mail.app. Supports plain text and HTML.

Calendar

4. Check your schedule before starting a deep work block

What's on my calendar today?

Shows all events for today with times, titles, and attendees.

5. Block focus time

Create a “Deep work — do not disturb” event tomorrow from 9am to 12pm

Teams

6. Catch up on what you missed

Summarize the last messages in my Teams #engineering channel

Reads directly from the local Teams cache — no Microsoft login or Graph API needed.

7. Post a message without opening Teams

Send a Teams message to the #deploys channel: “v2.1 is live, monitoring for 30 min”

Files & Documents

8. Find a file on your Mac

Search my Mac for files named “design-spec”

Uses Spotlight under the hood. Works anywhere on your filesystem.

9. Read a PDF without leaving Cursor

Read the PDF at ~/Downloads/contract.pdf and summarize the key terms

Productivity

10. Morning briefing — everything at once

Give me a morning briefing: latest emails, today's calendar, and any new Teams messages

This is the killer prompt. Cursor reads your email, calendar, and Teams in one shot and gives you a structured summary. No app-switching, no context loss.

Tips

macOS permissions: The first time you use an email or calendar tool, macOS will ask you to grant access. Approve it once and it works forever.
Natural language works: You don't need to know tool names. Just describe what you want (“find the email from Sarah about the budget”) and Cursor picks the right tool.
Everything is local: Your data never leaves your Mac. No cloud processing, no API keys, no tokens.

Not Working?

If Cursor doesn't seem to recognize LMCP tools, try restarting the editor. If a tool returns a permission error, open System Settings → Privacy & Security and enable “local-mcp-server” for the requested service.

Still stuck? Ask Cursor: Run LMCP diagnostics — it will check everything and tell you exactly what to fix.