Live web search and real-time news in Windsurf

Windsurf's Cascade agent can call MCP tools. With NestDaddy connected, it can check what is true today (a new release, a deprecation, a news event) before it writes code or answers.

Add the server

Get a key at nestdaddy.com/mcp (free plan: 1,000 calls a month, no card). Open ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json (or Windsurf Settings, then Cascade, then MCP servers, then View raw config) and add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nestdaddy": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.nestdaddy.com/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Note the key is serverUrl in Windsurf, not url. Refresh the MCP list: nestdaddy should show nine tools.

Use it

Look up the latest Tailwind CSS release on the web and tell me what changed in the config files.

Cascade calls web_search, reads the release notes with read_page, and then answers or edits.

Tips

Windsurf limits how many MCP tools can be active at once. If you are near the limit, turn off the NestDaddy tools you don't need; for coding, web_search, read_page and software cover most cases.

Same server in Cursor, VS Code and Claude Code.