Windsurf nucleus Prompt/align_review

How to: Windsurf nucleus align_review

client:Windsurf transport:streamable-http prompt:align_review

Add nucleus to Windsurf

01
Open ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nucleus": {
      "serverUrl": "https://relay.nucleusos.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

02
Save the file and restart Windsurf.
03
align_review is surfaced in the client's prompt or command menu. Unlike a tool, you invoke it deliberately — Windsurf will not call it for you.
04
If it does not appear, check that nucleus is connected and that you are looking at its prompts rather than its tools.

Global only — Windsurf has no per-project MCP config. Refresh Cascade after saving. Windsurf docs

Set these first

nucleus will not start until these are set, so it never reaches Windsurf.

NUCLEUS_BRAIN_PATH

Same prompt, other clients

Read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling prompts/list on 24 September 2026. A listing does not declare its prompts, so asking is the only way to know them, and this is what the server actually offers rather than what its listing claims. Names only are stored; connect the server for each prompt's arguments.

nucleus MCP server