Does MarkItDown MCP (Microsoft) work with Cursor?

Result

Steps

1. install OK
2. connected OK
3. tools visible OK
4. agent task: page read Failedfetch a public page and return its contentWhy it failed: no tool result containing ['Example Domain']

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

What happened in this run

Install config we used

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

Connection check

markitdown: ready

Tools the app saw

1 tools in the app (protocol check found 1).

Agent task: page read

• Tool calls, in order: markitdown:convert_to_markdown

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 MarkItDown MCP (Microsoft) page. Not connecting? Cursor MCP troubleshooting.

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

All MCP servers tested in Cursor