[Feat]: add support for Windsurf

[jakubbortlik]

Hi. I've used CodeCompanion a little bit with a local installation of Ollama, but it's performance was rather bad. Now my employer is providing me with access to Windsurf which looks much more promising, but it's not supported by CodeCompanion. Are there any plans to add support for Windsurf?

They have their own Vim plugin, but it only supports autocomplete. Chat can be opened in a browser, but who would like to leave Neovim if they don't have to, right?

[ravitemer]

You mean like an adapter?

[jakubbortlik]

Edited: Yes, that's what I had in mind. But I'm not even sure whether that's possible, i.e., I'm not sure if Windsurf exposes an API for which an adapter could be created. Windsurf.vim (and a Neovim clone neocodeium) use a local language server, but I haven't really studied the plugins' code in great depth.

[olimorris]

Pretty sure Windsurf don't expose their API but I would be very keen to hear any cool stuff or ideas they're implementing.

[jakubbortlik]

Thanks for your reply.

I don't have any experience with the Windsurf editor - I've just used occasionally the windsurf plugin for vim, which supports:

• autocompletion: one nice thing about this is that the model can produce several alternative suggestions and the plugin enables cycling through them
• opening Chat in a browser instead of within Neovim (apparently, support for native Neovim chat is not planned) - this is why I'd prefer to access the "Windsurf models" (I believe they really are using GPT and Claude) through some existing established interface like codecompanion.nvim
• after a short inspection of the plugin code, it uses a locally running language server that communicates with https://server.codeium.com

I think one interesting thing the Windsurf editor claims to be able to do is awareness of user actions (e.g., the user writes a docstring for one method/test and then prompts what they call the "Cascade" (a kind of chat with agentic functionality) to "continue with what I did with other methods/tests". But maybe that's what codecompanion.nvim could already do as well.

I know that in codecompanion I can already use the GPT and Claude models directly, but the reason I'd like to have Windsurf supported in codecompanion is the enterprise subscription I mentioned in my original post.

[olimorris]

In the CONTRIBUTING.md file, we have a section on how you can use a proxy to debug requests. It might be possible to gain access to the windsurf endpoints and build an adapter around it. That's pretty much what we did with the Copilot adapter for certain aspects.

[jakubbortlik]

Thanks for the hint. I'm not sure I'll be able to do this (due to lack of knowledge and time) but I hope I'll be able to give the proxy a try and see if I can contribute contribute in this in any way.