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Windsurf MCP documentation

Windsurf MCP tutorial

Interaction

My interaction history:

  1. get planexe example prompts
  2. I want you to suggest 5 prompts, based on the example prompts
  3. suggest something that fixes real world problems
  4. 5 more
  5. I'm in europe. make 5 suggestions that fixes serious issues in europe
  6. I like your Heatwave mortality reduction idea. I want you to make a full prompt ala the planexe example prompts, and show me the prompt
  7. remove the heading "Full PlanExe-style prompt: Heatwave mortality reduction (Europe)". what do you think about the prompt?
  8. go ahead create this plan
  9. status
  10. status Here windsurf went ahead and downloaded the created HTML report
  11. compare the created plan with the prompt you formulated
  12. also download the zip

I had to manually ask about check status to get details how the plan creation was going. It's not something that Windsurf can do.

The created plan is here: Heatwave Resilience

Configuring Windsurf

See MCP client config snippets for prerequisites and the cloud / local-Docker JSON blocks.

Instructions for opening Windsurf's MCP config file

  1. Open Windsurf
  2. Click the "..." icon at the top of the Agent panel, this opens a menu.
  3. Click the "Open MCP Config File" icon at the bottom of the menu.
  4. This opens the mcp_config.json file.

Paste the planexe entry from the snippet page inside your mcpServers dictionary.

Once you have saved the mcp_config.json. Then go to the Manage MCP Servers and click the refresh icon.

If it doesn't work then ask on the PlanExe Discord for help.