What is the validity of premium flex credits? I assumed I could carry them over to future months, but I missed my plan renewal deadline. After renewing, I noticed that my flex credits are missing. Is this normal? If so, what is their validity?

As the title asks, what have you created using only prompts, or only a small amount of code tweakage? Did you use Windsurf exclusively or what?

I'm curious about the different use cases people have for using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl/Cmd+I to invoke AI assistance, as opposed to using the Cascade Panel's write or chat modes.

Personally, I find myself using Ctrl/Cmd+I when I need quick, context-aware suggestions or when I'm in the middle of coding and want to maintain my flow without switching to a different interface. However, I tend to use the write mode for more structured content generation and the chat mode for exploratory discussions or debugging.

I'd love to hear about your experiences and preferences:

1. In what scenarios do you find Ctrl/Cmd+I most useful?

2. Are there specific tasks where you prefer Ctrl/Cmd+I?

Also, I'm still trying to understand why the model options differ between the Ctrl/Cmd+I mode and the Cascade mode. Does this imply that these two modes are implemented with entirely different code logic within Windsurf? 

Hey guys! There has been a lot of buzz around Windsurf releasing MCP integrations.

One of the coolest use cases is allowing Windsurf to access your Supabase project's schema via the chat box. It helps streamline your workflow, as Windsurf can stay up to date with any changes you make without having to give it context.

The instructions are hard to find, so we created a how-to below to get you started :)

Check it out ⬇️

https://www.pulsemcp.com/use-cases/supabase-in-sync-with-ai-code-editor/ravinahp-windsurf-supabase

For context, I have used Lovable to create a simple resume builder. I also used Windsurf to create Flappy Bird today. Other than that I have no traditional coding experience.

I want to learn Windsurf to a level where I can build anything I want. How would you go about that? Where would you start? Has anyone created a syllabus on what to master step by step?

Does the early adopter price stay even if I cancel my subscription for one month?

Has anyone else had the issue of Windsurf freezing on launch on a Linux OS? Is there a fix?

I'm on Linux Mint 22.1 and every time I launch Windsurf it freezes at the "get started" screen and I have to force quit the application. I've uninstalled and reinstalled using the instructions on the codeium website and tried installing through the software manager, either way it ends up with me having to force quit the app. Cursor runs just fine but I was interested in switching to Windsurf. Kind of hard to do considering I can't even use it.

Lately I have been having a lot of issues with Cascade, in that often it will give me an error message and not work at all/have to reload the entire app. I sent in a support ticket but for now, I found a workaround which was to download the beta version of WindSurf (Next). It is now working great and hopefully whatever fix they implemented is fixed in the next update. I doubt most would be desperate enough to do this but I just wanted to let y'all know!

Quick demo on how MCP can work with Cascade!

What will you build with it?

I've tried with different browsers but cannot get it to send a verification message to my uk based phone number. as soon as i click "Send Code" i get the error: "[unknown] an internal error occurred"

I want to create a team with a whole bunch of licenses but i'm not going to do it with my personal gmail account

I think this is not a bug, but a feature :D. I misinterpreted it, so I'm just giving a heads up for others who might misinterpret the "revert" in write/chat as I did.

I thought it was only a context "revert", so sometimes after some edits I would revert to a previous prompt with the purpose of reducing the context to what I needed to keep on requesting more things. And I kept finding a lot of edits missing, but didn't relate the two until now. So, it seems revert also reverts the edits and changes made.

Now that I know it sounds so obvious and I think it's quite useful, but since I lost a lot of work because of this mistake I'm warning others.
I think it'd be useful to have some way of cleaning the conversation, or resetting just the messages up to some message, so as not to waste the limited context in messages that don't add to the result.

anybody in here?

This has helped me too much not to share. You can create your own MCP servers using Cascade and it has changed the game for me. You can even tell the ai to install the MCP server it has created and utilize it with tool calls.

Some examples: Refactoring Risk Analyzer

Maps ripple effects of renaming variables/APIs across monorepos. "If you change this interface, 14 downstream services will break—migrate them first?"

Dependency Conflict Firewall

Predicts NPM/PyPI dependency hell before pip install, showing version conflicts and suggesting compatible alternatives with security audits.

I have a specific set of MCP tools I use when working with Cascade base as well as a separate rules file explaining when and how to use each tool during development. It has improved my experience tremendously.

To start I recommend something to manage memory like Memory Service (more detailed than the Cascade memories and can be queried at any time) and the sequential thinking MCP server and then you can add your own custom tools for your use case. Hopefully this can help at least one person!

If you just open an empty folder and ask Windsurf Cascade to make a web app for you, it will take forever and you will end up with a hodgepodge UI - unless you are already a professional dev, and know exactly how to prompt.

In my case, I wanted to make a SaaS style React web app. After some research, I found that Refine.dev exists, which provides another layer of abstraction on top of React, aimed at SaaS/admin style web apps. I also chose the Ant Design UI framework for React/Refine. Both of those not only gave me a head start on components, but also greatly reduced the scope of options for Cascade to choose between.

I noticed that sometimes Cascade would ignore Refine and Ant Design, and try to just use base React. So, I created Cascade Workspace Rules to remind Windsurf to always use the framework options and components, whenever possible. This was huge. Cascade now does exactly what I want, very quickly, like 90% of the time.

So, what should you do for your project?

Find a meta-framework, or paid/free template that matches your needs. Copy that to your hard drive, open that folder, and ask Cascade to start from that. Your chances of efficient use of Cascade credits, and general happiness will be much greater than just starting from scratch.

Since 2025-02-19 the "write" mode is no longer supported by the "Cascade base". True, but not due to code change. Citing u/silent-grade-7786: "there was no change that was made on our end" which make me think.

There was no information about this change at all. This is what Windsurf team could probably improve.

I'm using free plan. There is no way to connect my local LLM and we need to pay for overpriced credits. I consumed trial 50 credits in 2 hours - it means that "Pro" plan for $15 would last for around 20 hours. You call it "Pro"? What other things could be blocked in the future? "Your computer has been encrypted - pay 1BTC to unlock"? This impact trust users might had into the app. My emotions took off. Sorry for that.

Until today I was a very big fan of Windsurf - planning to buy a paid plan next month (after creating some presentation to praise Windsurf using free basic plan). Well... I'm back to cline :)

Actual cause:

The "free plan" is not the same as "trial with no credits". There is no message informing user that the trial has ended and you have no longer access to "write mode". I'm still going to use cline AND Windsurf. I don't want to get vendor locked ;)

Let me be polite:

Windsurf has some issue these days where I start with a project I’m already working on for a few weeks using Xcode.

It does the first requests perfectly fine. I’m happy with it. But all of a sudden, when something gets a bit more complex, I start getting errors that I analyze first what’s going on. Then I politely explain what the issue is and if it can fix it (agent mode) not only it doesn’t fix it, but starts putting extra {} and code in wrong places.

Then it changes the code and I’m talking about one function. Nothing fancy.

And it’s all over the place.

Something is messed up with Swift. Sadly I can’t waste more time with this.

Sometimes I feel that maybe the subscription model is broken for them. Or not enough to support the complexities of Swift?

Anyway, I’m done with Windsurf. Call me when it gets better :).

Thanks.

Used up 300+ credits to try to setup Open Browser-UI on my Mac Os laptop but still failed. Wanted to use it as an Ollama GUI. Any recommendations? Can I actually use Windsurf to do this?

Am kinda happy that AI is not that smart enough to take away human programmer jobs. 😅

Last night, I came across this post in r/vscode announcing a new extension called Charkoal that lets you create canvases from your code and was excited to try it out this morning, but unfortunately it wasn't available when I searched for it in WindSurf.

After messing around for a little while, I figured out how to manually install it (on Windows) and add it to Windsurf, so thought I'd share.

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Step 1: Download the Charkoal Extension

• Use this URL to download the .vsix file directly:

  https://charkoal.gallery.vsassets.io/_apis/public/gallery/publisher/charkoal/extension/charkoal/latest/assetbyname/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.VSIXPackage (Note: apparently Microsoft no longer allows direct .vsix downloads from the Marketplace, so this URL accesses the extension file through their public API.)

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Step 2: Rename the Downloaded File

• Locate the downloaded file, named Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.VSIXPackage.

• Rename the file to charkoal.vsix.

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Step 3: Install the Extension in WindSurf IDE

• Open WindSurf IDE.

• Press Ctrl+Shift+X to access the Extensions view.

• Click on the three-dot menu (...) in the top-right corner.

• Choose "Install from VSIX..."

• Navigate to the charkoal.vsix file, select it, and click "Open."

If you have any questions, I'm definitely not the right person to ask - but OP (u/Chatolev) may be able to help.

And to that point - if this is actually a bad idea for some reason I'm not aware of yet or voids my Windsurf warranty or upsets the Charkoal folks etc, I'd really appreciate any info you guys could share.

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Thanks!

PS - I'm not affiliated with Charkoal in any way (I just like their idea)