For Windsurf

When Cascade dies, the memory is yours

The chat can die. The archive does not. Encrypted portable memory for the Windsurf setup you actually live in.

The next Cascade is blank

Windsurf crashed. You switched machines. The tab is gone. MCP servers, global rules, and the .windsurf/rules/*.md that made Cascade yours — still sitting where Codeium left them, or gone with the disk.

A Cascade export is not a restore. The chat is not the memory.

What we snapshot in Windsurf

Community adapter. We capture the files that make Windsurf yours — and we do not pretend the rest is done.

• ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json Global MCP servers. Restored on the next machine.
• ~/.codeium/windsurf/memories/global_rules.md Global rules → identity. Restored as-is.
• .windsurf/rules/*.md Project rules, one skill per file. Written back on restore.
• .windsurfrules Legacy single-file project rules. Restored at the project root.
• Capture savestate snapshot --adapter windsurf

Workspace SQLite under Windsurf workspaceStorage is parsed into the archive today. Restore does not write Cascade threads back into the live IDE database yet — restart Windsurf after restore so MCP servers reload. Adapter detail lives in the platform adapters guide.

Each snapshot is a SaveState Archive, encrypted with AES-256-GCM before it leaves the machine. You hold the passphrase.

Pro is the path a stranger can take

The CLI is open source. The product you can buy today is SaveState Pro — $9/month:

• Scheduled auto-backups
• Cloud storage (10GB)
• All platform adapters
• Search across snapshots
• Web dashboard
• Email alerts on backup failures

Need shared snapshots and an audit log? Team is $29/month.

Capture Windsurf into the archive

One command. Full adapter setup lives in the platform adapters guide.

savestate snapshot --adapter windsurf

Also search the same archive from any MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "savestate": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@savestate/cli", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

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