Does DuckDuckGo search work with Cursor?

Result

Steps

1. install OK
2. connected OK
3. tools visible OK
4. agent task: web search OKlive keyless web search
5. agent task: page read OKfetch a public page and return its content

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

What happened in this run

Install config we used

{
 "mcpServers": {
  "duckduckgo": {
   "command": "uvx",
   "args": [
    "duckduckgo-mcp-server"
   ],
   "env": {
    "DDG_ALLOW_PRIVATE_URLS": "1"
   }
  }
 }
}

Connection check

duckduckgo: ready

Tools the app saw

3 tools in the app (protocol check found 3).

Agent task: web search

• Tool calls, in order: duckduckgo:search, duckduckgo:search, duckduckgo:search, duckduckgo:fetch_content

Agent task: page read

• Tool calls, in order: duckduckgo:fetch_content, duckduckgo: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 DuckDuckGo search page. Not connecting? Cursor MCP troubleshooting.

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

All MCP servers tested in Cursor