Use MCP servers in Devin Desktop (Cascade), formerly Windsurf with Toolport
Toolport is a free, open source local MCP gateway. Add your servers to Toolport once, flip the Devin Desktop (Cascade), formerly Windsurf toggle, and Devin Desktop (Cascade), formerly Windsurf gets all of them through a single gateway entry. Toolport picks a full tool list or search for each client, and you can change it in Clients.
Setup
- Download Toolport for Windows, macOS or Linux, and add your MCP servers to it (or import the ones your other AI agents already have; secrets go to your OS keychain).
- Open the Clients tab and toggle Devin Desktop (Cascade), formerly Windsurf on. Toolport writes its gateway entry into Devin Desktop (Cascade), formerly Windsurf's config, next to anything already there.
- Restart or reload Devin Desktop (Cascade), formerly Windsurf. Your full server set is available through Toolport, and any server you add later shows up without touching Devin Desktop (Cascade), formerly Windsurf again.
Where Devin Desktop (Cascade), formerly Windsurf keeps its MCP config
Devin Desktop (Cascade), formerly Windsurf MCP config
All platforms ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json
JSON with a top-level mcpServers object.
Good to know
- Devin Desktop is the renamed Windsurf editor, so Toolport still reads and writes ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json.
Why a gateway instead of Devin Desktop (Cascade), formerly Windsurf's own server list?
- One setup, every agent. The same servers work in Devin Desktop (Cascade), formerly Windsurf and every other AI agent on your machine; add a server once and they all get it.
- Secrets in the OS keychain. API keys are injected at runtime and never sit in Devin Desktop (Cascade), formerly Windsurf's config file.
- Watched by default. Rug-pull and tool-poisoning detection on every tool, plus per-tool governance and a destructive-tool kill switch. How the security works.
Free on this machine. Pro puts it on every machine. Team gives it to everyone.