Editor's take
Direct competitor to Cursor. Choosing between them is mostly personal preference at this point.
Hand-written by the AgentStore research team from docs + code + live usage data
About
Codeium Windsurf — AI editor with native MCP
Install
Pick your runtime, copy the snippet, paste it into your client config.
{
"mcpServers": {
"windsurf": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "windsurf"]
}
}
}Prerequisites
- ·Node.js 20+
- ·An MCP-compatible client
How it compares
Position among 11 tools in the infra category
By calls
#10/ 11
top 82%
By stars
#11/ 11
top 91%
By AgentStore Score
#7/ 11
top 55%
Security profile
Open source
Yes
Audited
No
Key handling
Local
Paid
Free
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