Windsurf is the agentic code editor from Codeium, and its Cascade agent speaks the Model Context Protocol. That means you can plug in ContextBolt Radar and keep watch on your competitors from the editor where you are already building.
Windsurf has file access, so your watch list and every judged change mirror to a ./radar/ folder in your workspace as markdown. Your competitive history lives next to your code, searchable and version-controlled.
Competitor watch inside Cascade
The moment a competitor moves is the moment you want to know, not three weeks later. With Radar in Cascade you ask “what did my competitors do this week?” and the judged answer lands in the chat. No dashboard, no alert feed, no context switch out of your editor.
Because these are MCP tools, Cascade chains them. “Check all my competitors, and for anything that matters, draft a short note on how it affects us” is one prompt that calls several tools and writes the result to disk.
The config entry
Add ContextBolt Radar under mcpServers in ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"contextbolt-radar": {
"serverUrl": "https://radar.contextbolt.app/mcp/YOUR_TOKEN"
}
}
}Note the key is serverUrl, which is what Windsurf expects for a remote HTTP server. Save the file, hit Refresh in the MCP Servers panel, and ask “what Radar tools do you have?” to confirm. Your URL holds a personal token, so keep the config off public repos. Then name your competitors and the watching starts tonight.
How to connect ContextBolt Radar to Windsurf
-
Subscribe and get your MCP URL
Subscribe to ContextBolt Radar ($39/month, up to 5 competitors). Your private MCP URL arrives by email and looks like https://radar.contextbolt.app/mcp/YOUR_TOKEN. Keep it private, like a password.
-
Open the Cascade MCP settings
In Windsurf open Settings, then Cascade, then the MCP Servers section, and choose Add server, or edit the config file at ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json directly.
-
Add the server and refresh
Under mcpServers add: "contextbolt-radar": { "serverUrl": "https://radar.contextbolt.app/mcp/YOUR_TOKEN" }. Save, then hit Refresh in the MCP Servers panel. Windsurf uses serverUrl for remote HTTP servers.
-
Name your competitors
In Cascade, ask 'what Radar tools do you have?' to confirm the tools loaded, then say 'watch acme.com, rival.io and matter.com' with a line about what you sell. The watching starts tonight.
Example prompts for ContextBolt Radar + Windsurf
Once connected, try asking Windsurf:
Adds each to your watch list (free) and stores your context, so every change is judged for your business rather than generically.
Reads all five surfaces plus search and returns an analyst read on day one, also setting the baseline for nightly diffs. Costs 5 credits.
Returns the judged changes with cosmetic noise removed, so you read moves that matter rather than raw diffs, without leaving Windsurf.
Cascade pulls the receipts, then drafts the positioning in your voice and writes it to your workspace for review.
What you can do with ContextBolt Radar in Windsurf
Watch up to 5 competitors across pricing, homepage, changelog, sitemap, and search
Get every change judged for significance, so cosmetic noise never reaches you
Ask what changed this week in plain English inside Cascade
Get an instant teardown of any competitor on day one
See a rival's trajectory, like a second price rise since January
Have the counter-move drafted in your voice and saved to your workspace
Read a Monday briefing of real moves, each with a counter-move and receipts
Save your radar to ./radar/ in your workspace as markdown you can grep and commit