Does GitHub Repo MCP work with Cursor?

Result

Steps

1. install OK
2. connected OK
3. tools visible OK
4. agent task: read repo OKread a public repo without a token

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

What happened in this run

Install config we used

{
 "mcpServers": {
  "github-repo-mcp": {
   "command": "npx",
   "args": [
    "-y",
    "github-repo-mcp"
   ]
  }
 }
}

Connection check

github-repo-mcp: ready

Tools the app saw

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

Agent task: read repo

• Tool calls, in order: github-repo-mcp:getRepoFile

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 GitHub Repo MCP page. Not connecting? Cursor MCP troubleshooting.

Other apps we tested it in: Claude Code (passed).

All MCP servers tested in Cursor