Windsurf · Move in steps
Cascade plans, multi-file edits, and terminal checks are why you stay in Windsurf — not because the editor must own production forever. Keep those habits for spikes while remotes, secrets, and publish authority move onto org Git and a host you can name in a vendor review. You still open the editor for Cascade work; customers stop depending on one developer’s Windsurf ACLs.
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Transition means Cascade stays useful for sandbox branches while secrets, remotes, and runtime leave the editor seat. Both tracks can run briefly. A release merges and ships without Windsurf admin or an open Cascade session. Undo each ownership move before you start the next.
Why moving in steps gets its own page
Migrate and get-off assume you are ready to cut. Many teams still need Cascade rhythm while one ownership piece moves.
Feels efficient until all three break together. Take one step, prove it, then choose the next.
If you cannot put that step back on editor-local ship in a known time, you are gambling — not transitioning.
Two writers, no reconcile rule. That is how last week’s “fixed” bug returns.
If the founder is the only admin, ownership is the first step — even while Cascade still helps on sandboxes.
The order we move things in
Org Git hardens first. Windsurf stays writable for experiments; it loses authority to change what customers run.
01
Sandbox Cascade okay; main-branch deploys and production secret rotates need CI.
02
Both can answer for that step.
03
Prove undo. Then retire editor-only publish for that step.
04
No silent dual edits on the same production path.
How to
Move in steps while Cascade stays live. Undo each step. Keep users safe.
Step 01
Org remote, secrets, or custom-domain bindings — not all three.
Step 02
Both can answer for that step.
Step 03
Known time to put that step back on editor-local ship.
Step 04
Watch. Support knows both tracks.
Step 05
Finish one move before you start another.
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Cascade plans for sandbox branches, inline review of those diffs, Source Control commits to feature branches, and terminal checks inside Windsurf can continue. Treat the editor as a workshop that feeds the org remote — not as the place you keep production secrets or the only place you can publish from.
Org identity providers and platform owners — not whoever approved the last Cascade plan. Production secrets move into the destination host or vault with rotation rights limited to on-call. Developers get scrubbed non-prod secrets so Cascade collaboration does not equal production key access.
Freeze only production-affecting paths: main-branch deploys, production secret rotates, and custom-domain bindings. Allow Cascade edits on sandbox branches and staging remotes. Route hotfixes through org Git that CI deploys. Windsurf remains writable for experiments; it loses authority to change what customers run.
A teammate with org Git access and no Windsurf license can ship a fix end-to-end. Incident docs name the external host and CI — not “open Cascade.” Preview on the original machine is marked non-prod. Secret rotation no longer requires digging through Cascade chat.
Bring which paths still only ship from Windsurf, who holds the org remote, and how you would undo the first ownership move. We move one part first, then talk about a full exit.
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