Bring Contact Management
to Windsurf
Learn how to connect folk to Windsurf and start using 6 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the folk MCP Server?
Connect your folk CRM account to any AI agent and simplify how you manage your professional relationships, coordinate contact groups, and track interactions through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Contact Oversight — List all contacts and retrieve detailed profile metadata, including custom fields and status.
- Group Management — Coordinate your contact lists by querying and managing specific groups in your folk workspace.
- Interaction Tracking — Retrieve a complete history of emails, meetings, and calls for any contact to maintain context.
- Relationship CRM — Create new contact records and update profile data programmatically via AI.
- Notes & Insights — List and query all notes and comments associated with your contacts to capture important details.
- Operational Visibility — Verify account configurations and monitor your professional ecosystem directly from the agent.
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your folk API Key (found in your account settings)
3. Start managing your professional network from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
Who is this for?
- Founders & Entrepreneurs — quickly retrieve investor details and track recent interactions via simple AI commands.
- Sales & BD Teams — manage lead groups and verify contact history directly from the workspace.
- Recruiters — track candidate pipelines and monitor interview notes via the AI assistant.
Built-in capabilities (6)
Create a new contact
Get details for a specific contact
List notes for a contact
Optionally filter by group ID. List folk contacts
List folk groups
List interactions for a contact
Why Windsurf?
Windsurf's Cascade agent chains multiple folk tool calls autonomously. query data, analyze results, and generate code in a single agentic session. Paste Vinkius Edge URL, reload, and all 6 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 6 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
folk in Windsurf
folk and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect folk 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 folk in Windsurf
The folk 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 6 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
folk for Windsurf
Every tool call from Windsurf to the folk MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
Can I see all contacts in a specific folk group via AI?
Yes! Use the list_contacts tool and provide the Group ID. Your agent will retrieve all profiles and metadata for the contacts in that specific group.
How do I add a new person to my folk directory?
Use the create_contact action. Provide the first name, last name, and email address to register the new contact in your folk account instantly.
Is it possible to see the interaction history for a contact via AI?
Absolutely. Run the list_interactions query with the Contact ID. The agent will retrieve a history of emails, meetings, and calls associated with that profile.
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.
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