Bring Global Hiring
to Windsurf
Learn how to connect Remote to Windsurf and start using 11 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the Remote MCP Server?
Connect your Remote account to any AI agent to streamline your global hiring, payroll, and compliance workflows. Remote provides a powerful RESTful platform for programmatically managing international teams, tracking employee data, and monitoring invoices across 150+ countries.
What you can do
- Company Orchestration — List and retrieve detailed metadata for all your registered company entities and their operational status.
- Global Talent Management — Access and monitor your global workforce, track employee profile data, and create new employee records programmatically.
- International Compliance Monitoring — List all countries supported by Remote to understand your global hiring capacity and requirements.
- Invoice & Financial Tracking — Access and monitor company invoices to ensure transparent and timely global payroll operations.
- HR Intelligence — Get a real-time overview of your international workforce and hiring trends using natural language commands.
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your Remote API Key from your developer settings at remote.com
3. Start managing your global HR from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
Who is this for?
- Global HR & Finance Teams — monitor international payroll and employee data using natural language.
- Operations Managers — automate the onboarding of new global hires and track invoice statuses more efficiently.
- Developers — integrate real-time HR and compliance data into custom business dashboards.
Built-in capabilities (11)
Pass data as a JSON string. Add a new employee
Get specific company details
Get details for a specific employee
Get details for a specific invoice
List all registered companies
List all contractors
List employees for a company
List all employee expenses
List invoices for a company
List all countries supported by Remote
List all time-off requests
Why Windsurf?
Windsurf's Cascade agent chains multiple Remote tool calls autonomously. query data, analyze results, and generate code in a single agentic session. Paste Vinkius Edge URL, reload, and all 11 tools are immediately available. Real-time tool feedback appears inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor.
- —
Windsurf's Cascade agent autonomously chains multiple tool calls in sequence, solving complex multi-step tasks without manual intervention
- —
Purpose-built for agentic workflows. Cascade understands context across your entire codebase and integrates MCP tools natively
- —
JSON-based configuration means zero code changes: paste a URL, reload, and all 11 tools are immediately available
- —
Real-time tool feedback is displayed inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor without switching contexts
Remote in Windsurf
Remote and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Remote 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 Remote in Windsurf
The Remote 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 11 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
Remote for Windsurf
Every tool call from Windsurf to the Remote 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 get my Remote API Key?
Log in to your Remote account, navigate to the Developer or API Keys section in your dashboard, and generate a new key for your integration.
Which countries are supported?
Remote supports hiring and payroll in over 150 countries. You can use the list_supported_countries tool to see the full list in real-time.
Can I add employees programmatically?
Yes, the create_employee tool allows you to initialize new records for international hires directly from your AI agent, including job titles and locales.
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.