Bring Mobile Apps
to Windsurf
Learn how to connect Guidebook 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 Guidebook MCP Server?
Connect your Guidebook Builder account to any AI agent and take full control of your mobile event guides and scheduling workflows through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Guide Orchestration — List and manage all mobile guides in your account and retrieve detailed guide metadata
- Schedule Management — Access and monitor event schedules and sessions programmatically to keep your attendees updated
- Location Mapping — List and search for mapped event locations to ensure precise spatial coordination for your attendees
- Custom Lists — Manage and retrieve custom lists (speakers, exhibitors, sponsors) to organize your event's intellectual capital
- Activity Monitoring — Check guide details and status directly through your agent for instant event reporting
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Retrieve your API Key from the Guidebook Builder (Manage your account > API Key)
3. Start managing your mobile guides from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
No more manual editing of sessions or locations through complex web builders. Your AI acts as your dedicated event mobile coordinator.
Who is this for?
- Event Organizers — scale mobile guide management and session coordination for large-scale conferences
- Marketing Teams — update exhibitor and sponsor lists across multiple guides through natural language queries
- Onboarding Leads — keep employees updated on company training schedules and locations without leaving your workspace
Built-in capabilities (12)
Verify connectivity
Add list item
Create a guide
Get session details
Get guide details
List attendees
List custom list items
List custom lists
List sessions
List guides
List locations
Update a guide
Why Windsurf?
Windsurf's Cascade agent chains multiple Guidebook 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
Guidebook in Windsurf
Guidebook and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Guidebook 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 Guidebook in Windsurf
The Guidebook 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
Guidebook for Windsurf
Every tool call from Windsurf to the Guidebook 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 a Guide ID?
You can use the list_guides tool to retrieve all mobile guides in your account along with their unique identifiers and names.
Can I see the speakers or exhibitors for an event?
Yes! Use the list_custom_lists tool with a specific guide_id to retrieve all custom directories like speakers, exhibitors, or sponsors.
Does the integration support viewing the event map?
The list_guide_locations tool provides the metadata for all mapped locations within a guide, helping you identify precisely where sessions take place.
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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