Bring Meeting Transcription
to Windsurf
Learn how to connect Fireflies.ai to Windsurf and start using 12 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the Fireflies.ai MCP Server?
Connect your Fireflies.ai account to any AI agent and take full control of your meeting documentation and conversational knowledge retrieval through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Meeting Orchestration — List and manage meeting transcripts programmatically, including retrieving AI summaries, action items, and complete text logs
- Live Transcription — Programmatically invite the Fireflies bot to ongoing Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams calls for real-time recording and documentation
- Transcript Intelligence — Use 'AskFred' to ask complex natural language questions about specific meeting contents and retrieve instant, high-fidelity answers
- Asset Management — Upload public audio URLs for automated transcription and manage meeting soundbites to preserve critical conversation clips
- Organizational Visibility — Retrieve team member directories and account metadata to coordinate meeting knowledge across your entire workspace
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Retrieve your API Key from your Fireflies.ai settings (Settings > API)
3. Start managing your meeting intelligence from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
No more manual note-taking or scrubbing through hours of recordings to find a decision. Your AI acts as your dedicated meeting analyst and knowledge coordinator.
Who is this for?
- Product Managers — instantly retrieve action items and summaries from user research calls using natural language
- Sales Teams — monitor customer sentiment and identify key pain points from recent demos without leaving your workspace
- Operations Leads — automate the documentation of team syncs and manage meeting access across the organization
Built-in capabilities (12)
Invite bot to live call
Ask AI about a meeting
Delete a meeting record
Get my profile
Get AI App responses
Get transcript details
List meeting soundbites
List organization users
List all meeting transcripts
List active webhooks
Update meeting title
Transcribe audio file
Why Windsurf?
Windsurf's Cascade agent chains multiple Fireflies.ai tool calls autonomously. query data, analyze results, and generate code in a single agentic session. Paste Vinkius Edge URL, reload, and all 12 tools are immediately available. Real-time tool feedback appears inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor.
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Windsurf's Cascade agent autonomously chains multiple tool calls in sequence, solving complex multi-step tasks without manual intervention
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Purpose-built for agentic workflows. Cascade understands context across your entire codebase and integrates MCP tools natively
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JSON-based configuration means zero code changes: paste a URL, reload, and all 12 tools are immediately available
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Real-time tool feedback is displayed inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor without switching contexts
Fireflies.ai in Windsurf
Fireflies.ai and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Fireflies.ai to Windsurf through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 3,400+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for Fireflies.ai in Windsurf
The Fireflies.ai MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 12 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Windsurf only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
Fireflies.ai for Windsurf
Every tool call from Windsurf to the Fireflies.ai MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find my Fireflies API Key?
Log in to your Fireflies.ai dashboard, navigate to Settings > API, and copy your unique token.
What is AskFred?
AskFred is an AI-powered meeting assistant that can answer questions about any of your recorded meetings based on their transcript data.
Can I record a meeting that is already in progress?
Yes! Use the add_to_live_meeting tool and provide the join URL. The Fireflies bot will attempt to join the call immediately.
How does Windsurf discover MCP tools?
Windsurf reads the mcp_config.json file on startup and connects to each configured server via Streamable HTTP. Tools are listed in the MCP panel and available to Cascade automatically.
Can Cascade chain multiple MCP tool calls?
Yes. Cascade is an agentic system. it can plan and execute multi-step workflows, calling several tools in sequence to accomplish complex tasks without manual prompting between steps.
Does Windsurf support multiple MCP servers?
Yes. Add as many servers as needed in mcp_config.json. Each server's tools appear in the MCP panel and Cascade can use tools from different servers in a single flow.
Server not connecting
Check Settings → MCP for the server status. Try toggling it off and on.