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sdods mcp install windsurf says Unknown client — is Windsurf just not supported?

Asked 19 Jul 20234,120 views1 answer

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Half the team uses Windsurf. Tried the obvious thing:

bash

sdods mcp install windsurf -p demo-shop

text

Unknown client "windsurf".
  → Use one of claude, cursor, vscode, codex.

Do I have to hand-write the config, or is there a flag I am missing?

mcp cli install

asked by Yusuf Demir201 · 19 Jul 2023

1 answer

14votes✓
Accepted answer
Hand-write it, but do not hand-write it from scratch — Windsurf reads the same mcpServers shape Cursor does, so generate Cursor's and paste:
bash
```
sdods mcp install cursor -p demo-shop --print
```
--print writes nothing; it shows the target file and the snippet. Drop the JSON into .windsurf/mcp.json under the same mcpServers key and restart the editor.
The installer's list is only about which config file it knows how to merge without clobbering somebody else's servers. The server itself does not care which client is on the other end of the pipe — it is stdio either way.
answered by Kostya Petrov7,903 · 19 Jul 2023

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