MCPs aren't specific to Cursor. Rather, they enable any IDE to become a Cursor competitor.
Example: JetBrains released an MCP server plugin for their IDEs recently and it enables Claude Desktop to seamlessly use the IDE for reading and writing files and even compiling or running tests against it.
And that's just one example; there are MCP servers for anything from VSCode to Emacs already. That means almost anyone can now use LLMs to generate code in their IDE of choice, just as they would do with Cursor.
In fact, MCPs are posing a threat to many startups, especially the "wrapper" ones.
Example: JetBrains released an MCP server plugin for their IDEs recently and it enables Claude Desktop to seamlessly use the IDE for reading and writing files and even compiling or running tests against it.
And that's just one example; there are MCP servers for anything from VSCode to Emacs already. That means almost anyone can now use LLMs to generate code in their IDE of choice, just as they would do with Cursor.
In fact, MCPs are posing a threat to many startups, especially the "wrapper" ones.