Does context-mode work with Cursor?

Yes. context-mode passed every step of our test in Cursor on Oct 13, 2026: it installed, connected, its tools were visible, and an agent used it to finish a real task.

Result

ResultPassed
Date testedOct 13, 2026
Plan tested onCursor Pro+
App version2026.10.12-d47ca18
Modelgpt-5.3-codex-low

Steps

  1. install OK
  2. connected OK
  3. tools visible OK
  4. agent task: recall across sessions OKstore in session 1, recall in a fresh session 2 (the token only appears in session 1's prompt)

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

What happened in this run

Install config we used

{
 "mcpServers": {
  "context-mode": {
   "command": "/home/box/opt/node22/bin/npx",
   "args": [
    "-y",
    "context-mode"
   ],
   "env": {
    "PATH": "/home/box/opt/node22/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
   }
  }
 }
}

Connection check

context-mode: ready

Tools the app saw

11 tools in the app (protocol check found 11).

Agent task: recall across sessions

  • Tool calls, in order: context-mode:ctx_search, context-mode:ctx_search, context-mode:ctx_search

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 context-mode 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

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