MCP servers are not accessible in Cursor Desktop chat despite no visible errors with connection

[Chris_Drake]

Cursor has massively broken internals with how it manages non-stdio connections:-

Windows mcp.json major bug with non-stdio servers

Still present in 2.2.36

Stop Shipping Unstable Builds

I’ve been using Cursor since the 0.x versions. In the past, I was genuinely excited about every new release — I would literally click Check for Updates almost every day. Lately, however, I feel the opposite: I hesitate whenever I see a new version available. The reason is simple: almost every update breaks something. If it’s not one issue, it’s another. Version 1.7 felt relatively solid and stable. But from 2.0 onwards, things have gone downhill — and there are already many posts out there abo…

No matter how many times we report this, it never gets fixed.