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MCP Receipts in Windsurf

Turn receipt lines into an itemized, taxed total. receipt_parse takes raw receipt lines — '2 x Coffee 4.50', 'Sandwich 8.90' — and returns an itemized breakdown with quantity times unit price per line, a subtotal, and tax computed at the rate you pass; the cents are exact, so the parsed total matches what the till printed.

One tool against the 100-tool ceiling; the parse is deterministic, so the itemized breakdown is safe to trust without re-checking the arithmetic.

What you get in Windsurf

You sayTool
Parse this receipt: 2 x Coffee 4.50, Sandwich 8.90, tax 8.5%.receipt_parse
Add '3 x Bagel 2.25' and re-total at 0% tax.receipt_parse
Split this receipt across two people.receipt_parse, then arithmetic

The contract suite parses real line formats over stdio: a '2 x Coffee 4.50' line becomes quantity 2 at 4.50 for 9.00, the subtotal sums the itemized lines before tax, and 8.5% on a 17.90 subtotal returns the taxed total to the exact cent with no rounding drift.

Install it in Windsurf

The file is mcp_config.json, and the key inside it is mcpServers.

ScopePath
macOS, Windows and Linux~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

If you also run Claude Desktop, the shortest path there is one click: receipts.mcpb from the latest release opens as an extension, with no JSON and no terminal. Windsurf reads its own config, so here it is:

The config block:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "receipts": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/mcp-servers/servers/receipts/dist/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

The node command above wants a built file. From a clone, once:

git clone https://github.com/theluckystrike/mcp-servers.git
cd mcp-servers && npm install
npm run build -w packages/mcp-license -w servers/receipts

That writes servers/receipts/dist/index.js, and its absolute path is the one argument the config needs.

The npm packages are not published yet, so the form below returns a 404 today. It is here because it is what the entry becomes the day the publish lands, with nothing else changed:

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

Save and reopen the MCP Servers list; Cascade picks it up without restarting the editor.

Nothing is published to npm yet, so the working install paths are the ones above: the .mcpb bundle from the latest release, a clone and build, or the hosted URL.

No install: the hosted endpoint

There is no hosted endpoint for this one yet. MCP Receipts runs locally over stdio with the config above, which is also the only form in which it reads and writes files on your own disk. Thirty of the servers in this collection are served at https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/<name> over MCP streamable HTTP; https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/connect lists them and prints a ready URL for each.

Windsurf notes worth knowing first

Read this first: mcp_config.json applies to the legacy Cascade agent only. The Devin Local agent, the default for new tabs, takes its servers from the Devin CLI config files, so a correct entry here can still be invisible in a fresh tab. The other hard number is a cap: Cascade reaches at most 100 tools at once, and every enabled server spends from it.

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Questions

Where does Windsurf keep its MCP config?

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, under mcpServers. Reach it from the MCPs icon at the top right of the Cascade panel, or Devin Settings, Cascade, MCP Servers.

I edited the file and a new tab still cannot see MCP Receipts.

That file applies to the legacy Cascade agent only. The Devin Local agent, the default for new tabs, reads its servers from the Devin CLI config files instead. Check which agent the tab runs.

How many servers can I load at once?

Cascade reaches at most 100 tools at any one time, and every enabled server spends from that single budget. MCP Receipts contributes 1 tool, so keep the enabled list short rather than counting servers.

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