Does Git (reference) 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": {
  "ref-git": {
   "command": "uvx",
   "args": [
    "mcp-server-git",
    "--repository",
    "/workspace/timmy/harness/sandbox/coderepo"
   ]
  }
 }
}

Connection check

ref-git: ready

Tools the app saw

12 tools in the app (protocol check found 12).

Agent task: find definition

• Tool calls, in order: ref-git:git_status, ref-git:git_show, ref-git:git_show, ref-git:git_show

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 Git (reference) 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