Keep Windsurf.
Give it your machines.

AI Commander is not an alternative to Windsurf, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok. It is the remote-machine harness those tools plug into over MCP: outbound-only shell, detached jobs that outlive the chat, and file transfer on hardware you already own.

Sibling harness pages: Cursor · Claude Code · Grok · Codex · ChatGPT · Gemini · Continue.

Connect Windsurf (stdio bridge)

Windsurf (Cascade) talks to AI Commander through the same stdio MCP bridge as Cursor. Add this to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json (or Settings → Cascade → MCP servers):

{
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aicommander": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@aicommander/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "AICOMMANDER_SERVER": "https://aicommander.dev"
      }
    }
  }
}

The config shape matches Cursor and other IDE MCP clients; only the file path differs. Full client matrix (Windsurf, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, REST): Connect your AI client.

First connect may open a one-time browser sign-in (OAuth Dynamic Client Registration). For a code-only first hour without that flow, append ?anonymous=1 to the MCP URL where your client supports it.

What you get that the chat alone cannot

• Remote shell on Linux, macOS, and Windows — by session code or saved alias.
• Detached jobs for builds, training, and headless agents on the box that has the repo.
• Fleet list + GPU facts so Windsurf picks the right machine before it burns an hour.
• File courier (Pro) for checkpoints and diffs up to 100 MiB.

Not a replacement — a multiplier

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