SEO for Windsurf via MCP

Crawlwise gives Windsurf SEO audits and AI crawler checks through MCP. Windsurf reads MCP servers from ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json. The file is shared by every workspace.

Point it at the server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crawlwise": {
      "serverUrl": "https://crawlwise.site/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Restart Windsurf afterwards. The MCP panel in Cascade should list the crawlwise tools once the server connects, and authorising it opens a browser for OAuth the first time.

Windsurf names the field serverUrl; other clients call it url. That one difference is the most common reason a config that works elsewhere silently does nothing here.

Verify it worked

In Cascade: "use crawlwise to check which AI crawlers can read https://example.com"

That call spends no credits, so it is the right first test. If it answers, the transport and the sign-in are both working, and anything that fails afterwards is a plan or credit question. MCP access itself needs Growth or Agency.

What it will not do

No score, no percentage, no verdict on whether a page will rank. An unmeasured value comes back as not measured and should stay that way in whatever the agent writes for you. If an agent summarises a crawlwise report and turns that into a zero, the summary is wrong rather than the report.

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