Cursor phone calls: add Bland's MCP server, and your coding agent dials from its own number

Quick answer

• Cursor phone calls are calls your Cursor agent places through Bland's MCP server (MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is an open standard for connecting an AI agent to outside tools).
• With the Agent Phone Plan, those calls come from your agent's own dedicated US local number, and the same number sends texts and takes calls.

Who it's for

• Developers who already work in Cursor and want their coding agent to place a test call or send a text from a dedicated number.
• It's built for one agent running one person's errands, one call at a time.

What it isn't

• It isn't a call center or a tool for mass outreach. More calls at once need Bland's Build plan, on the pricing page.
• Unlimited calls and SMS cover US and Canada numbers, and your first plan purchase adds $10 of international calling credits for calls elsewhere.

Step 1: subscribe to the Agent Phone Plan

Subscribe to the Agent Phone Plan: $9.99 for the first month (once per account owner), then $19.99 a month. It renews monthly on the card on file until cancelled, and you approve it when it starts. Your agent gets one dedicated US local number to make and receive calls and send and receive texts.

Step 2: add Bland's MCP server to Cursor

Add Bland's MCP server to Cursor with an API key. Cursor needs two values from Bland's docs, shown below: the server URL and an Authorization header carrying a full-access Bland API key from your dashboard. Restricted keys can't connect. Bland's MCP server doesn't ask for confirmation itself, so keep Cursor's tool-approval prompts on.

Step 3: run a safe test call to your own phone

Ask Cursor to call your own phone and then text you a short hello, and save its number as a contact before it calls anyone else.

Place a test call

• Ask Cursor to call your phone and read you a short message, so you can hear how a call from your agent sounds.
• When the call ends, your agent can fetch the transcript and summary.

Text from its own number

• Have your agent text your phone, or a contact you name, from its dedicated number.
• When someone replies, Bland answers from that number toward the goal you gave the conversation.

Ask a business a question

• Send your agent to ask a store about a delivery window, or to request an appointment change at an office.
• Your agent asks and reports back. The business decides, so outcomes are not promised.

A hosted MCP server

Bland hosts the MCP server, so there's nothing to run locally: Cursor points at one URL with your key. Once connected, your agent can place a call, wait for it to finish, and fetch its transcript and summary. MCP server for phone calls and SMS.

Texts need the plan

Texting needs the Agent Phone Plan, because your agent texts from its own number. Bland answers any reply from that number toward the goal your agent set. AI phone number that can text.

Calls coming in

People can call your agent on its number. The plan runs one call at a time across your account, so while a call is live, a new caller hears a busy signal. AI agent inbound calls.