Can't disable MCP globally

Bug Reports
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Describe the Bug

Can’t disable MCP globally: Cursor enables disabled MCP on any new workspace open.

How to disable MCP globally?

It’s a duplicate of closed How to disable MCP server but with reproducing guide

Steps to Reproduce

  1. mkdir foo bar
  2. Open Cursor in dir ‘foo’ as workspace: cursor ./foo/
  3. Go to Cursor settings, notice that MCP is enabled, disable it, close Cursor
  4. Open Cursor in dir ‘bar’ as workspace: cursor ./bar/
  5. Go to Cursor settings, notice that MCP is enabled again

If I open foo again - MCP will be disabled for it.
If I recreate foo rmdir foo && mkdir foo && cursor foo - MCP will be enabled again.

Expected Behavior

MCP is disabled in any workspace

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.0.0
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 53b99ce608cba35127ae3a050c1738a959750860
Date: 2025-06-04T19:21:22.523Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.4.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue