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How to Create a SELECT-Only Postgres User for AI
Don't give Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT your app's Postgres login. Create a dedicated SELECT-only role, grant the right schemas, wire it into Synra, and verify writes fail.
July 23, 2026
How to Verify AI Answers About Your Database
Don't trust the first confident number from Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT. A short known-answer checklist: count, filter, join — then check the usage log before you share the connector.
July 23, 2026
How to Connect ChatGPT to PostgreSQL with MCP
Step-by-step: connect ChatGPT to PostgreSQL via MCP. Developer Mode, Synra endpoint, connection strings for Neon, RDS, Railway, Supabase. Read-only by default.
July 20, 2026
How to Connect Cursor to Railway Postgres with MCP
Connect Cursor to Railway PostgreSQL via MCP. Use the public TCP proxy URL (not railway.internal), wire Synra, paste one endpoint into mcp.json. Staging vs production environments.
July 20, 2026
Treat Your MCP Endpoint Like a Password
Your MCP endpoint URL is a secret. Anyone with it can run the same reads your AI client can. How leaks happen (git, Slack, screenshots), how to rotate, and how to share access without pasting the token everywhere.
July 20, 2026
What Your AI Query Audit Log Is For
Read-only and staging aren't enough. How to use MCP/query audit logs after you connect ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor — catch wrong answers, leaks, and reckless SELECT * in week one.
July 20, 2026
When Not to Connect AI to Your Database
Live AI database access isn't always the right move. When paste/CSV, a warehouse, or 'don't connect' beats MCP — and a simple decision checklist before you paste an endpoint URL.
July 20, 2026
How to Connect Cursor to Neon with MCP
Connect Cursor to your Neon serverless Postgres database with MCP. Use a branch for AI queries, paste one endpoint URL, get schema-aware answers in chat and Composer.
July 19, 2026
Why Read-Only AI Database Access Matters
MCP doesn't make database access safe. Read-only at the gateway and SELECT-only credentials do. Why AI write access is uniquely risky — and how to verify your connector can't mutate data.
July 19, 2026
How to Connect Cursor to Supabase with MCP
Step-by-step guide to connecting Cursor to your Supabase database using a managed MCP server. Schema-aware answers in chat and Composer, real query results, no local install.
July 15, 2026