Does Serena 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": {
  "serena": {
   "command": "uvx",
   "args": [
    "--from",
    "git+https://github.com/oraios/serena",
    "serena",
    "start-mcp-server",
    "--context",
    "ide-assistant"
   ]
  }
 }
}

Connection check

serena: ready

Tools the app saw

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

Agent task: find definition

• Tool calls, in order: serena:initial_instructions, serena:activate_project, serena:serena_repl, serena:serena_repl

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 Serena 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