How to Use the Clerk MCP in Windsurf

Manage your Clerk auth infrastructure directly inside Windsurf without leaving the editor.

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Create your Vinkius account to connect Clerk to Windsurf and route execution through our secure gateway. The platform manages server hosting, runtime updates, and security layers. Configuration requires no manual server provisioning.

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Windsurf MCP Server Auth Audits

Auditing your Clerk authentication health no longer requires manual dashboard clicks. Cascade doesn't wait for you to prompt every step. Tell it to check your system status and it immediately hits `get_auth_dashboard_summary` to pull top-level metrics. From there, it chains commands autonomously. It runs `list_active_sessions` to spot stale logins, then pulls up `list_clerk_clients` to map those sessions to specific browser instances, printing out a full security report right in your editor.

Investigate Specific Users Fast

Investigating specific Clerk user accounts usually means bouncing between your code and the browser. Now you stay in the IDE. Paste a user ID into the chat and watch Cascade go to work. It triggers `get_user_auth_details` to grab their exact metadata and login history. If they belong to a B2B tenant, it follows up with `list_clerk_organizations` to map their permissions before you even ask.

Track Allowlist and Invites

Managing your Clerk allowlist requires tight control over who gets access to your enterprise app. You need to know exactly whose emails are cleared to register. Tell Cascade to verify pending access. It executes `list_auth_allowlist` to check approved domains, then fires `list_sent_invitations` to see who still needs to accept their invite. You get the exact status in seconds.

Setup guide

Set up Clerk MCP in Windsurf

Prerequisites

Windsurf IDE installed (macOS, Windows, or Linux)
Active Vinkius subscription with a valid endpoint token

1

Open MCP configuration

Click the Cascade assistant icon in the sidebar, then click the hammer icon (🔨) at the top of the panel. Select "Configure" to open ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json.
2

Add the Clerk MCP

Paste the JSON snippet shown on the right into the mcpServers object. Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your endpoint token from cloud.vinkius.com.
3

Refresh MCPs

Go back to the hammer icon (🔨) in Cascade and click "Refresh". Windsurf will detect the new server. No full restart is needed — the connection is hot-reloaded.
4

Verify in Cascade

Start a new Cascade conversation and ask something like "Show my Clerk payment history." If connected, Cascade will call the Clerk tools directly. You will see a green dot next to the server name in the MCP panel.

mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clerk-mcp": {
      "url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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Common questions about Clerk MCP in Windsurf

Open your Windsurf settings and navigate to the Cascade MCP Servers UI. Add the Vinkius endpoint URL there and click refresh to load the tools.

This specific integration focuses on reading data. You can pull the data using the active sessions tool, but terminating them requires manual action in the dashboard.

Ask Cascade to list your tenants. It uses the organizations tool to return all B2B groups currently configured in your application.

Yes. As long as you provide a valid API key through Vinkius, the server connects to your live or test environment regardless of where your editor runs.

We isolate every request in a V8 sandbox. The server only reads emails, session tokens, and organization IDs during execution, and Vinkius destroys the environment immediately after the response.

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