# Windsurf Plugin

> Windsurf Plugin is an officially published IDE extension from Cognition. Anomity scores its risk at 20 out of 100 (low).

- **Canonical URL:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/extension/windsurf-plugin
- **Kind:** IDE extension
- **Publisher:** Cognition
- **Trust level:** official
- **Risk score:** 20/100 (low)
- **Website:** https://windsurf.com/plugins
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-02
- **JSON:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/api/entries/extension/windsurf-plugin

## Description

The Windsurf Plugin — the successor to the Codeium extension, following Cognition's acquisition — brings Windsurf's completion and chat into VS Code, JetBrains, Vim, and other editors for developers who do not want to switch to the standalone Windsurf editor.

It reads the workspace for context, writes accepted suggestions, and calls the hosted model service, so it declares filesystem read and write with outbound network access. Its long-standing appeal is a capable free tier, which is worth pairing with the usual question about hosted assistants: what is retained, and is code from this repository allowed to leave it? The answer belongs in a policy rather than in each developer's settings.

## Why it scored 20

The score starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50 and moves only through the signals below. The formula is published at https://catalog.anomity.ai/about — there is no model and no hidden heuristic.

| Signal | Contribution | Severity | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Published by the vendor | -40 | trust offset |  |
| 1 high-risk capability: filesystem:write | +10 | high |  |

Clamped result: **20/100**, band **low**.

## Capabilities

| Capability | Name | Security implication |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `filesystem:read` | Filesystem read | Can read files on the host system. Used for context, indexing, or analysis. |
| `filesystem:write` | Filesystem write | Can create, edit, or delete files on the host system. High-impact capability — anything from helpful edits to planting persistence. |
| `network:outbound` | Outbound network | Can make outbound network requests. Required for hosted model providers and remote APIs; also the path for data exfiltration if combined with read access. |

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Source: Anomity Catalog (https://catalog.anomity.ai/). Scoring methodology: https://catalog.anomity.ai/about. Machine-readable index: https://catalog.anomity.ai/llms.txt · https://catalog.anomity.ai/openapi.json