How to govern Costs in Windsurf
A step-by-step guide to governing Costs in Windsurf with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Costs in Windsurf means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Windsurf with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Costs.
Steps
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Inventory Windsurf
Connect Windsurf and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Costs in Windsurf to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the Windsurf reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
Windsurf controls for Costs
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Windsurf catalog on the Windsurf connector page.
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Windsurf inactive seat still billed
Detects active seats whose member has not been active in the last 30 days.
Severity: Medium -
Windsurf high-credit member
Detects members with more than 10,000 credits used in the last 30 days.
Severity: Low -
Windsurf excessive BYO-key usage
Detects models predominantly served via user-supplied API keys.
Severity: Medium -
Windsurf credits consumed by member (last 30 days)
Top 10 members by credits consumed in the last 30 days.
