Windsurf Wave 3

2025-02

1. Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support: bring in more tools for Cascade to access
2. Tab-to-jump: an addition to our predictive passive AI in the text editor
3. ”Turbo” Mode: let Cascade run all terminal commands for you
4. Drag-and-drop Images: highly requested feature to make using image inputs easier
5. Custom App Icons: a small thank you to our paying users

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support

• MCP server support in Cascade. You can specify MCP servers via JSON within the Windsurf Setting panel.
• Cascade will have access to calling it as flow action tool calls similar to searching through code, running a terminal command, or making an edit.
• It becomes another potential tool to call (so not guaranteed to be called, but should be called when appropriate).
• To understand limitations on how many MCP servers can be added at once, credit usage, and more, please refer to our MCP docs.

Tab to Jump

After Autocomplete, which predicted additions at your cursor position that could be accepted with the “Tab” key and Supercomplete, which was the evolution of Autocomplete where the “Tab” key could be used to not just accept additions at the cursor position, but entire nearby edits (additions/deletions/refactors) irrespective of cursor position.

Now making it capable of moving your cursor to the next location you would want your cursor to be at, i.e. “tab-to-jump”.

Turbo Mode YOLO

• Back in Wave 1, we introduced Automated Terminal Commands, a feature that let you whitelist and blacklist Cascade-suggested commands to be automatically executed without human approval.
• let Cascade just autonomously rip and iterate through its steps, command execution included.

Drag-and-drop Images

drag-and-drop support for image inputs.

Custom Icons

paid users (Mac only for now) Custom Icons on their dock.

other things since Wave 2

DeepSeek-v3, DeepSeek-R1, o3-mini, Gemini 2.0 Flash

all of these models are available via dropdown

Because these models have varying costs, not all of them will use a single premium credit:

• Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 1 credit
• OpenAI GPT-4o: 1 credit
• OpenAI o3-mini: 1 credit
• DeepSeek-v3: 0.25 credits
• DeepSeek-R1: 0.5 credits
• Gemini 2.0 Flash: 0.25 credits

We have made sure to be transparent on your credit usage throughout Cascade’s execution, both for these variable credits and when credits are not used (ex. when Cascade makes an error on a step):

Windsurf Next

Windsurf Next is our new “pre-release” version of Windsurf.
Read more about Windsurf Next and how to get it here.