Windsurf + Cloudflare

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Agentic IDE with Cascade context and Flows for multi-step tasks. Made by Cognition.

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Cloudflare Skills ↗ Cloudflare Code Mode API MCP ↗ Cloudflare Domain Specific MCPs ↗ Windsurf Docs ↗

Quick start

Download Windsurf

Download Windsurf for macOS, Windows, or Linux from the Windsurf downloads page ↗.

Install Cloudflare Skills

npx skills add https://github.com/cloudflare/skills

Configure Cloudflare MCP servers

Add the Cloudflare API and docs servers to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json. For domain-specific MCP servers, refer to mcp-server-cloudflare ↗. For the full Cloudflare API MCP server (Code Mode), refer to cloudflare/mcp ↗.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cloudflare": { "serverUrl": "https://mcp.cloudflare.com/mcp" },
    "cloudflare-docs": { "serverUrl": "https://docs.mcp.cloudflare.com/mcp" },
    "cloudflare-bindings": { "serverUrl": "https://bindings.mcp.cloudflare.com/mcp" },
    "cloudflare-builds": { "serverUrl": "https://builds.mcp.cloudflare.com/mcp" },
    "cloudflare-observability": { "serverUrl": "https://observability.mcp.cloudflare.com/mcp" }
  }
}

Try a prompt

Open Cascade and try a prompt — for example:

Add mTLS authentication and schema validation to protect my API endpoints.

Cloudflare platform access

Expand any section to learn more.

Cloudflare Skills

Persistent platform context that teaches the agent how Cloudflare works.

Skills are instructions the agent loads on demand. The cloudflare/skills bundle covers every layer of the platform — so the agent knows your conventions without you re-explaining them.

MCP servers

Live access to the Cloudflare API, docs, and observability.

MCP servers provide typed tools to call into Cloudflare at runtime. There are two options: Code Mode — a single server that covers the entire Cloudflare API (2,500+ endpoints in ~1,000 tokens) — or a set of focused, domain-specific servers hosted in the cloudflare/mcp-server-cloudflare repo. The full catalog is also in the MCP servers for Cloudflare docs.

Wrangler CLI

Local dev, deploys, and Workers-specific commands.

Use Wrangler for local development, deploys, and product-specific commands like wrangler d1 migrations apply or wrangler tail. The bundled wrangler Skill teaches the agent when to reach for it.

Agent-friendly docs

Token-efficient references optimized for agents.

Append /index.md to any Cloudflare docs URL for a clean markdown version. Every top-level product section also has its own llms.txt — a page index sized for a single context window. A few useful ones:

developers.cloudflare.com/llms.txt — directory of every Cloudflare product.
developers.cloudflare.com/workers/llms.txt
developers.cloudflare.com/agents/llms.txt
developers.cloudflare.com/r2/llms.txt
developers.cloudflare.com/d1/llms.txt

For a full overview of how these docs are structured for agents, refer to the Docs for Agents guide.

Example prompts

Tips

The Cloudflare API MCP server uses Code Mode — Cascade writes JavaScript to reach any of 2,500+ endpoints in ~1,000 tokens.
Use @-mention to include your wrangler.jsonc in Cascade prompts — Cascade uses this to understand your current bindings when generating code.
Add the observability MCP server to let Cascade automatically check Workers logs and debug deployments without leaving the IDE.

FAQ

Does Windsurf support Cloudflare Skills?

Yes. Windsurf supports Agent Skills in Cascade. Install the Cloudflare Skills bundle from cloudflare/skills ↗ — see the Windsurf Cascade Skills documentation ↗ for where Cascade discovers and loads Skills.

Should I use Skills, the MCP server, Wrangler CLI, or all of them?

All three complement each other. Cloudflare Skills teach Cascade the patterns and conventions for Workers development. The Cloudflare API MCP server handles platform operations (DNS, WAF, Zero Trust, R2 buckets). Wrangler in Windsurf's integrated terminal covers local dev and deploys. Cascade coordinates between them naturally.

Can Cascade deploy to Cloudflare?

Yes. Cascade can run npx wrangler deploy in the integrated terminal, and with the MCP server configured it can also call the Cloudflare API directly for managed deploys and resource creation.

Troubleshooting

MCP server not connecting

Verify your mcp_config.json configuration. Restart Windsurf after making changes. Ensure the MCP server URL ends with /mcp.

Getting outdated information about Cloudflare products

Enable the Cloudflare docs MCP server so the agent can fetch current documentation at runtime. If you prefer not to use the MCP server, point the agent directly at developers.cloudflare.com/llms.txt for a directory of every product, or developers.cloudflare.com/<product>/llms.txt for a product-specific index.

Build agents on Cloudflare

Also worth knowing

Cloudflare is not just a deploy target for agents, it is a full stack for building your own.

Agents SDK

Stateful AI agents with state, scheduling, RPC, email, streaming chat — and the Code Mode SDK for token-efficient tool use.

Learn more →

Build an MCP server

Ship a remote MCP server on Workers with OAuth, durable state, and streamable HTTP transport.

Learn more →

Workers AI

Run open-source LLMs, embedding models, and image models at the edge. Use it as your agent's model provider.

Learn more →

Worker Loader

Load user-generated code into isolated Workers on demand. The secure sandbox behind Code Mode.

Learn more →

Windsurf + Cloudflare

Quick start

Cloudflare platform access

Example prompts

Tips

FAQ

Troubleshooting

Build agents on Cloudflare

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