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Post to Mastodon from Windsurf

Windsurf can post to Mastodon on Mastodon through ClipSpeed. Add the ClipSpeed server with one config block, sign in, and then ask Windsurf to post to Mastodon, pick the time, and apply Mastodon's settings, without leaving the Windsurf editor's Cascade agent. Mastodon is on the roadmap on ClipSpeed's rail; this page describes how it works and says so.

On the roadmapStandard MCP route · not yet verified by us

Start for $1 Setup guide

Keep a human in the loop: Windsurf shows the plan and asks before anything is public. Posting today: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X (Twitter) and LinkedIn.

Windsurf

Post the announcement to Mastodon at 9am. Preview first.

Preview — nothing booked yet. Would schedule on: • Mastodon — text under 500 · visibility: public Times are in America/New_York. Book it?

via ClipSpeed · Mastodon

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How to post Mastodon from Windsurf

Windsurf reads MCP servers from one JSON file. Add the block, refresh the MCP list in Cascade's settings, sign in, and the tools appear. Connect Mastodon in ClipSpeed, then describe the post. Setup takes about a minute.

setup once, then just ask

# One-time setup: ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clipspeed": { "serverUrl": "https://api.clipspeed.ai/mcp" }
  }
}

# Then ask Windsurf:
> Post the announcement to Mastodon at 9am
Windsurf: Preview — nothing booked yet. Mastodon — text under 500. Book it?

Windsurf lists each server's tools in the MCP panel once connected. An empty list means the connection or sign-in did not complete. ClipSpeed has not yet seen a real Windsurf session connect; the setup is Windsurf's documented MCP route and the URL is the same as every verified client.

Open ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json (Windsurf Settings → Cascade → MCP → view raw config) and add the block shown.
Refresh the MCP servers in Cascade. clipspeed appears; authenticate and approve the ClipSpeed sign-in.
Ask Cascade to list your channels.
Connect Mastodon in the ClipSpeed app, or ask Windsurf for a connect link: it is private, valid for ten minutes, and Mastodon signs you in itself.

Developer reference: the Windsurf MCP page.

What can Windsurf do on Mastodon?

On Mastodon, Windsurf can post 500-character text, images and video to a Mastodon account on any server. Every booking runs through the same rules as the ClipSpeed app.

Text, Image and Video posts

Mastodon takes text, image and video through ClipSpeed. Video: MP4 or WebM. Image: JPG, PNG or GIF; up to four per post on Mastodon.

500 characters, checked at booking

Mastodon's own arithmetic, with every link counted as 23. Too long is refused with the real count, never trimmed at send time.

Exact time or refused

Name the minute and Windsurf books it, or you are told why not and offered the next open slot. A booked Mastodon post is never moved behind your back.

Preview before anything posts

preview: true runs the whole booking and writes nothing. Windsurf shows the plan, with each slot and the day's remaining cap, and books only on your yes.

Clips cut in the same chat

Submit a video or stream link, get captioned 9:16 clips with a viral score, and post the best as native video on Mastodon. No download, no re-upload.

Pacing and numbers

Planned: Text posts on Mastodon are at least 30 minutes apart, up to 10 a day. Video on Mastodon is at least 4 hours apart, up to 4 a day under your plan. After a post goes out, Windsurf can read back views and engagement where Mastodon provides them.

How does Windsurf post to Mastodon through ClipSpeed?

You describe what you want in plain language and Windsurf makes the ClipSpeed calls. A typical conversation has three beats.

Find your Mastodon channel

Ask Windsurf whether Mastodon is connected. It calls list_channels and reads platform_settings, so it also knows what Mastodon accepts and the limits before you write a word.

Is my Mastodon account connected to ClipSpeed?

Mastodon is on the roadmap on ClipSpeed; I can't book there yet. Your YouTube channel is connected if you'd like to use that.

Compose within the rules

Describe the post. Windsurf drafts within Mastodon's limits, counting links as 23; mention a clip or a file and it attaches it.

Draft a Mastodon post about the launch with the best clip from the demo.

Here's the draft (400/500): "…" Clip 2 (score 88) attached. Want me to schedule it?

Schedule or publish

Name a time, or say now. The slot is booked exactly or refused with the next open one, and the reply carries the id you can cancel or edit by.

Yes — tomorrow at 9am.

Scheduled on: • Mastodon — Tue, 9:00 AM · id 7c2… Times are in America/New_York.

Mastodon settings reference

These are the schedule_post fields that apply to Mastodon. Mention any of them in plain language and Windsurf sets them; the server checks them at booking. Fields marked planned land with the Mastodon release.

Field	Type	Required	What it does on Mastodon
`platforms`	string[]	Yes	Include `"mastodon"`. Up to ten platforms per call; each books its own slot.
`text`	string	Yes for a text post	Up to 500 characters on a default server; links count as 23.
`visibility`	public \| unlisted \| followers	Planned	Mastodon's post visibility.
`media_kind`	text \| image \| video	No	Detected from the file when omitted.
`clip_id or media_url`	string	No	A clip or a public link.
`scheduled_at`	ISO 8601	No	Exact or refused with the next open slot.
`preview`	boolean	No	Plan only.

Common Mastodon configurations

Ask Windsurf for any of these and it applies the matching settings.

Public post

Post the announcement to Mastodon at 9am

Got it. Applying: text under 500 · visibility: public

Unlisted test

Post it unlisted first so I can check the formatting

Got it. Applying: visibility: unlisted

Clip as video

Post clip 2 to Mastodon at 5pm

Got it. Applying: clip_id

Day of posts, previewed

Plan six posts across the day, show me first

Got it. Applying: preview: true

Example prompts for Mastodon in Windsurf

Type these into the Windsurf editor's Cascade agent. Windsurf calls ClipSpeed and confirms before publishing.

Just ask

Post Mastodon with a scheduled time

Post the announcement to Mastodon at 9am. Keep the text under 500 characters with links counted as 23. Preview first.

Clips first

Cut the clips, then post the best

Clip this link, keep the top three by viral score, and schedule them to Mastodon at 11am, 3pm and 7pm tomorrow. Show me the plan before booking.

Manage

Check and adjust the Mastodon calendar

What is scheduled on Mastodon this week? Cancel tomorrow's post and tell me the next open Mastodon slot on Friday.

Mastodon limits and gotchas to know

Mastodon enforces a few rules that Windsurf and ClipSpeed respect automatically, but knowing them helps you phrase requests.

500 characters is the default limit, with every link counted as 23. Some servers allow more; ClipSpeed will use your server's limit at booking.
Your account lives on one server; you connect that server, not mastodon.social in general.
Mastodon is on ClipSpeed's roadmap, not the next rail. Bookings are refused plainly until it posts.
Content warnings and alt text are planned fields.
Planned pacing: ten text posts a day 30 minutes apart, video four hours apart.

Rule	Mastodon
Accepts	Text, Image, Video
Text limit	500 characters; every link counts as 23 (500 is the default; your server may allow more)
Title	No title field
Links in the caption	Kept; every link counts as 23 characters
Pacing	Planned: Text posts on Mastodon are at least 30 minutes apart, up to 10 a day. Video on Mastodon is at least 4 hours apart, up to 4 a day under your plan.
Formats	Image: JPG, PNG or GIF; up to four per post on Mastodon. Video: MP4 or WebM. Aspect: any
Status	On the roadmap; described here, not yet bookable

What Postiz-style schedulers cannot do

Cut the clips first

Windsurf does not need finished video to start. Hand it a YouTube link, a podcast, a stream VOD or a local export. ClipSpeed finds the moments, cuts them to 9:16 with word-by-word captions, scores each one 0 to 100 for shareability, and returns them in the same conversation. Windsurf picks by score, writes the caption from the transcript, and books the clips on Mastodon. Three tool calls, one approval, no download and no re-upload.

Clips arrive with a title written from the hook, a transcript and a viral score, so the agent can choose and caption without watching the footage.
Live streams can be clipped while they are still on air; the agent books the highlights for the next morning before the stream ends.
Every clip is already hosted, so schedule_post takes its id directly. Nothing moves through your laptop.

submit_to_clipspeedPaste the link. ClipSpeed starts the job and returns a project id.

check_clipsPoll with the project id. Back come the finished 9:16 clips with titles, transcripts, viral scores and preview links.

schedule_postPass the clip id, the platforms, a caption and a time. Windsurf shows the plan with preview: true, you say yes, it books.

generate_image or generate_videoDescribe the shot. ClipSpeed runs it on the model that fits (Seedance, Kling, Veo, Nano Banana Pro, GPT Image and others) and quotes the credits first.

wait_for_generationReturns the hosted result link and a preview the agent can show you.

schedule_post with media_urlThe result link goes straight into the booking on Mastodon. The caption, the time and the file are approved together.

The other half nobody else has

Generate the image or video, then post it

A product shot for Instagram, a 16:9 announcement graphic for X, a six-second opener before a clip: Windsurf can make an image or a short video with ClipSpeed's image and video models and book the result in the same reply. There is no separate design tool, no export, no upload page. The generated file is hosted, so media_url is the only thing the booking needs.

The price in credits is quoted before anything renders, within the per-generation and daily caps you set in Settings.
Results are previewed in the conversation, so you approve the picture and the post at once.
Images post as JPG, PNG or WebP up to 25 MB; video posts as MP4, MOV or WebM up to 1 GB.

What is Windsurf?

Windsurf is an AI code editor whose agent, Cascade, runs multi-step tasks in your project and calls MCP tools. With ClipSpeed in Windsurf's MCP configuration, Cascade can clip a video, generate images and video, and schedule posts to your connected platforms from inside the editor.

How ClipSpeed works with Windsurf

Windsurf connects to the ClipSpeed server from mcp_config.json; sign in in the MCP panel
Cascade reads platform_settings before composing
schedule_post is exact or refused with the next open slot
preview: true for a dry run
OAuth, or an API key header where there is no browser

Windsurf vs Cursor vs Claude Code: Windsurf (windsurf editor), Cursor (cursor editor), Claude Code (terminal). This page is about Windsurf; the Windsurf guide compares them.

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clipspeed": {
      "serverUrl": "https://api.clipspeed.ai/mcp"
      // no browser? add:
      // "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer csai_live_..." }
    }
  }
}

tool list (abridged)

# What the agent reads at connect time (tool descriptions, abridged)
list_channels           Connected platforms, what each accepts, limits, your time zone
connect_channel         A private 10-minute link to connect one platform
platform_settings       Limits, title rules, link handling, pacing per platform
schedule_post           clip_id | text | media_url → platforms[], scheduled_at, preview
list_scheduled_posts    Scheduled, sending, posted, failed — with post links
update_scheduled_post   Edit copy while still scheduled (the time never moves)
cancel_scheduled_post   Cancel; undoable 72 h in the app
post_analytics          Views, likes, comments, shares where the platform gives them
submit_to_clipspeed     Start clipping a video or stream link → projectId
check_clips             Finished 9:16 clips with titles, transcripts, viral scores
generate_image / generate_video / wait_for_generation

# Mastodon: text/image/video · text 500 (links = 23)

Post to Mastodon and other platforms from Windsurf

One request can book the same content to Mastodon and other channels, each keeping its own settings and its own slot. Every platform below has its own Windsurf guide.

Post the launch to Mastodon and Bluesky tomorrow at 9am, then a daily tip on Bluesky every weekday at 10am. Preview first.

Preview — nothing booked yet: • Mastodon — Tue 9:00 AM (refused: on the roadmap) • Bluesky — Tue 9:00 AM (refused: coming next) • Bluesky daily tips — Mon–Fri 10:00 AM Book it?

Post to Bluesky from Windsurf →Post to X (Twitter) from Windsurf →Post to Threads from Windsurf →Publish notes to Nostr from Windsurf →Post to Lemmy from Windsurf →Every platform for Windsurf →Mastodon scheduler features →

Also works with

CLPost to Mastodon from Claude →CHPost to Mastodon from ChatGPT →CCPost to Mastodon from Claude Code →CDPost to Mastodon from Claude Desktop →

Mastodon and Windsurf: frequently asked questions

How do I post to Mastodon from Windsurf?

Open ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json (Windsurf Settings → Cascade → MCP → view raw config) and add the block shown. Refresh the MCP servers in Cascade. clipspeed appears; authenticate and approve the ClipSpeed sign-in. Connect Mastodon in ClipSpeed (or ask Windsurf for a connect link; it is private and valid for ten minutes), then describe the post in plain language. Windsurf reads the Mastodon rules, drafts within them, shows the plan and books on your yes. Mastodon is on the roadmap; until the badge changes, the booking is refused with a plain message.

What can Windsurf post to Mastodon through ClipSpeed?

Post 500-character text, images and video to a Mastodon account on any server. Mastodon takes text, image and video posts. Text is limited to 500 characters, with every link counted as 23.

Which Mastodon settings can Windsurf control?

The fields in the settings reference above: text, visibility, media_kind, clip_id or media_url, scheduled_at, preview. Mention any of them in plain language ("unlisted", "tomorrow at 9", "preview first") and Windsurf sets the matching field before it books.

Do I need a Mastodon API key or developer account?

No. You connect Mastodon to ClipSpeed once through Mastodon's own sign-in, and Windsurf talks to ClipSpeed over OAuth. No Mastodon developer key, bearer token or password is pasted anywhere.

How many Mastodon posts a day can Windsurf schedule?

Planned: Text posts on Mastodon are at least 30 minutes apart, up to 10 a day. Video on Mastodon is at least 4 hours apart, up to 4 a day under your plan. When a time is taken, the booking is refused with the next open slot rather than moved. Ask for preview to see a day's plan and the remaining cap before anything is booked.

Can posts go out to Mastodon while I am away?

Yes. Once booked, ClipSpeed publishes at the scheduled minute whether or not Windsurf is open. For unattended runs that decide what to post, use a headless agent such as Claude Code or Codex with the same account.

Is posting to Mastodon from Windsurf different from Cursor?

The booking is identical: the same rules, the same calendar, the same refusals. What differs is where you work. Windsurf: the windsurf editor. Cursor: cursor editor, agent panel; cursor-agent cli.