Bring Tutoring Management
to Windsurf
Learn how to connect Teachworks 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 Teachworks MCP Server?
Connect your Teachworks tutoring management account to any AI agent and simplify how you coordinate your education business, student directory, and lesson scheduling through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Student Management — List all enrolled students, create new student profiles, and retrieve detailed academic metadata.
- Teacher Coordination — Query your directory of tutors and teachers to manage staff assignments and availability.
- Lesson Scheduling — List all scheduled lessons and classes to monitor your academy's teaching calendar.
- Family Oversight — List and manage customer families to maintain organized billing and contact records.
- Profile Insights — Fetch detailed profile information for individual students using their unique IDs.
- Operational Monitoring — Check your education ecosystem status and teacher distributions directly from the agent.
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your Teachworks API Token (found in your account settings)
3. Start managing your tutoring business from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
Who is this for?
- Tutoring Business Owners — quickly retrieve student lists and monitor teaching schedules via simple AI commands.
- Academy Administrators — coordinate teacher availability and manage family records directly from the workspace.
- Education Coordinators — verify student details and verify lesson assignments via the AI assistant.
Built-in capabilities (6)
Add a new student
Get student details
List families
List scheduled lessons
List all students in Teachworks
List all teachers (tutors)
Why Windsurf?
Windsurf's Cascade agent chains multiple Teachworks 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
Teachworks in Windsurf
Teachworks and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Teachworks 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 Teachworks in Windsurf
The Teachworks 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
Teachworks for Windsurf
Every tool call from Windsurf to the Teachworks 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 the lessons scheduled for my academy via AI?
Yes! Use the list_lessons tool. Your agent will retrieve the complete enseñante calendar, including scheduled times and associated students.
How do I add a new student to my directory?
Use the create_student action. Provide the first name, last name, and an optional email to register the new student record in Teachworks instantly.
Is it possible to see which families are registered via AI?
Absolutely. Use the list_families query. The agent will retrieve the directory of customer families associated with your business.
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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