Does Code Index MCP work with Cursor?

Result

Steps

1. install OK
2. connected OK
3. tools visible OK
4. agent task: find definition OKsymbol lookup + one cross-file reference in a 2-file Python repo (git history has 1 commit, so git-only tools can answer via git_show)

From our own harness run, not the maker’s claims. How we test.

What happened in this run

Install config we used

{
 "mcpServers": {
  "code-index": {
   "command": "uvx",
   "args": [
    "code-index-mcp"
   ]
  }
 }
}

Connection check

code-index: ready

Tools the app saw

14 tools in the app (protocol check found 14).

Agent task: find definition

• Tool calls, in order: code-index:set_project_path, code-index:search_code_advanced

Raw details from our harness log for this run. Secrets redacted.

Set it up in Cursor

Copy-paste config for every app is on the Code Index MCP page. Not connecting? Cursor MCP troubleshooting.

Other apps we tested it in: Claude Code (passed) · Claude Desktop (passed) · ChatGPT (Codex) (passed).

All MCP servers tested in Cursor